The NF in search of the ISC 28 greek entry ended in drama for 2 artists who both thought they'd be representing Greece in ISC 28
First there was Adrianna Babali who won with a small margin over Sarbel with her song "Des kathara (face a la mer)". It turned out to be a version of a song that already particpated in ISC 19 for France, sung by the group Calogero. France ranked with "Face a la mer" 18th with 55 points at that time. The ISC management rejected therefor Adrianna's song for violating the rules.
The organization of the NF then declared runner up Sarbel to be the greek entrant with his song "Den Mporeis" and submitted this song. Again the greek delegation was about to be disappointed and frustrated by another rule, stating that an artist may only represent one country at a time in ISC editions. Cyprus just entered the UK-born greek singer Sarbel with his song "mi chica".
The greek delegation was furious at the Cyprus management because Sarbel not being cypriotic (Born UK, living in Crete / Greece) and the songtitle being not in the cypriot language. Therefor violating the ISC rules also. The greek management consider to officially demand the ISC management to investigate this particular situation. Sarbel himself declared in a press conference at the Wikipedia Newsport
"I don't care neither being famous abroad nor start an international career. I only care for Greece. I grew up abroad but choose to live in Greece." ... (to be continued)
In the meantime both singers are invited to the Greek ISC 29 preselection and may enter automaticly. Adriana will choose another song, Sarbel might enter with the same song. With the deadline too close to write new songs the Greek delegation asked the runner-up artist of the 27 ICS preselection whether she wanted to participate in the ISC 28 with the song she already entered for the next NF. Alkistis Protopsalti was very willing to help and submitted her song "Dithesio". Therefor she will be the ISC 28 entrant for Greece. Alkistis expressed how happy she was to finally enter the ISC-arena after several attempts and wished both Adriana and Sarbel the best of luck in the ISC 29 NF preselection!
Her song can be watched here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rbo9ALCJQ_g
(song starts after 30 seconds)
