EUROVISION 2024 GREECE: MARINA SATTI - ZARI (Ζάρι)

ERT chose internally Marina Satti for Eurovision song contest 2024 and launched an open call for songs. Initially planned final where she would have performed various songs to be chosen from was soon cancelled and finally on March 7. 2024 her entry Zari was revealed.

Marina Satti (Μαρίνα Σάττι) is a 37-year-old singer-songwriter. She's of Sudanese Arab origin by her father and Greek mother. She has studied piano since early age, later vocal training, and later jazz in Berklee Collage. She also studied architecture. in 2016 she formed an a Capella female group Fónes, and her single Koupas ended in Bob Sinclair's Buddha Bar 20 years anniversary album. 

Since 2018 she has toured the world with world music mixed with pop and Eastern Mediterranean traditional music and finally in 2022 she released an album Yenna, that was met with great commercial and critical reception. Over the years she has released also more than a dozen singles, Pali in 2021 being a Top-20 hit in Greece. She's been featured in another ten singles since 2007 by other artists.

So what do I think? Well, in theory this so my cup of tea so to speak but then again... No. I find this shouty, noisy, lacking a melody, a mess in short. I love it is in Greek and I have been longing for an ethnic banger from Greece for years but this went a bit too far. 

In our Home Jury Greece didn't impress scoring almost the lowest votes of all.