Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Elena Tsagrinou (26) becomes the first new confirmed artist for the Eurovision song contest 2021, joining the 20 already confirmed 2020 acts to do it again in 2021. Her song El Diablo is written by an international team (sigh) of Jimmy Thornfeldt, Laurell Barker, Oxa and Thomas Stengaard.  For 2020 Cyprus had internally chosen Sandro Nicolas but soon after announced he is not the one for 2021 as well. One can only wonder why..... or maybe it's not so hard? Elena started at 14 in Ellada eheis talento aka Greece's got talent and soon fronted a band Other View scoring some hits. Since 2008 she's gone solo releasing videos with millions of views, and also been a regular in tv shos as coach or hostess like Just the 2 of us, The Voice of Greece and  K-Pop Stars.  Enjoy below some of her songs:

Cyprus has internally chosen 23-year-old Sandro Nicolas (or Alessandro Rütten). His father is American, mother Greek and he grew up in Germany. Link to Cyprus? None, except the Greek language he's fluent with. He has previously done Supertalent in Germany without success, the Voice of Germany reaching semi-finals, and represented USA in the New Wave festival in Sochi (the festival that used to be always in Jurmala, Latvia) finishing 6th. Sandro follows the international non Cypriot trend the island is having in Eurovision lately as he follows Georgian-Greek Tamta, Albanian-Greek Eleni Foureira and Armenian-Cypriot Hovig. Eurovision veteran Linnea Deb of melodifestivalen and Finland's Monsters fame has been spotted in studio with him and several posible song titles have been circulating in the fan media but time will tell if he tries to copycat Eleni Foureira and Luca Hänni with mucho calor, or something else....