Evdokia Kadi

Evdokia Kadi

Evdokia Kadi is a Greek Cypriot singer who represented Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, with the song "Femme Fatale". She was eliminated in the second semi-final on May 22 and therefore did not make it to the final.She started her singing career in 2001 at the University of Cyprus...

 was chosen as the Cypriot

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Eurovision Song Contest 2008

The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Contest. It was hosted in Belgrade, Serbia after Marija Šerifović won the 2007 Contest in Helsinki, Finland. This year was the first contest to have two semi-finals which were held on 20 and 22 May, and the final held on 24 May 2008...

. The song selection took place in the form of a national final organized by CyBC

CYBC

CYBC may refer to:* Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, Cyprus' public broadcasting service.* The IATA code for Baie-Comeau Airport, in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada....

. "Femme Fatale" is a traditional Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 Laïkó

Laïkó

Laïkó ), is a Greek music genre. Also called folk song or urban folk music , in its plural form is a Greek music genre which has taken many forms over the years...

 song with a French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 title.

National final

Composers were allowed to submit their songs until 15 November 2007. Following the deadline, a professional seven-member jury selected 10 songs to compete in the national final on 12 January 2008. The winner of the selection was decided through a mixture of a jury (40%) and a televote (60%). The jury consisted of those who selected the 10 competing songs with the addition of two guest jurors.

The National Final took place at RIK's

Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation

The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation ) or CyBC is Cyprus's public broadcasting service, transmitting island-wide on four radio and two television channels. CyBC is a non-profit organization that utilises its entire income for the promotion of its main mission, which is the objective provision of...

 Studio 3 on January 12, 2008. The show was broadcast live on regional and satellite television, as well as online streaming provided by CyBC and the official Eurovision website channel, ESCTV. The final started at 8:15 PM CET, and lasted approximately 2 hours. The host of the show was Andreas Ektoras, while Evridiki

Evridiki

Evridiki Theokleous , known professionally as simply Evridiki, is a Cypriot rock, pop, and electro pop singer. She is best known in Europe for representing her home country, Cyprus, in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, 1994 and 2007 with the songs Teriazoume, Eimai Anthropos Ki Ego and Comme...

 along with Dimitris Korgialas performed the song "I Zoi Ehei Hroma

I Zoi Ehei Hroma

"I Zoi Ehei Hroma" is CD single recorded by Cypriot singer Evridiki. The single was released on 10 February 2008 by Virus Music in both Cyprus and Greece and is Evridiki's first release since her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007...

" as the interval act.

Evdokia Kadi

Evdokia Kadi

Evdokia Kadi is a Greek Cypriot singer who represented Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, with the song "Femme Fatale". She was eliminated in the second semi-final on May 22 and therefore did not make it to the final.She started her singing career in 2001 at the University of Cyprus...

 won with the song "Femme Fatale

Femme Fatale (Evdokia Kadi song)

"Femme Fatale" was the Cypriot entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, sung by Evdokia Kadi. The song was composed by Nicos Evagelou and was written by Vangelis Evangelou.It performed at the second semi-final Eurovision Song Contest 2008 on 22 May 2008...

", winning the televoting and coming third in the jury vote. Former Eurovision entrant Marlain Angelidou won the jury vote.

Draw	Artist	Song	Lyrics (l) / Music (m)	Jury	Televote	Total	Place
1	Eleni Skarpari	"Moments of Madness"	Mike Connaris (m & l)	16	18	34	7
2	Myria Pampori & Alexis Manison	"Turning to You"	Minas Pamporis (m & l)	8	48	56	4
3	Mirto Meletiou	"Rescue Me"	Christodoulos Haralampides (m & l), Andreas Ikonomidi (m & l)	20	12	32	9
4	Sofia Strati	"This Can't Be Love"	Giorgos Pellapashiotis (m & l)	12	42	54	5
5	Evdokia Kadi Evdokia Kadi Evdokia Kadi is a Greek Cypriot singer who represented Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, with the song "Femme Fatale". She was eliminated in the second semi-final on May 22 and therefore did not make it to the final.She started her singing career in 2001 at the University of Cyprus...	"Femme Fatale Femme Fatale (Evdokia Kadi song) "Femme Fatale" was the Cypriot entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, sung by Evdokia Kadi. The song was composed by Nicos Evagelou and was written by Vangelis Evangelou.It performed at the second semi-final Eurovision Song Contest 2008 on 22 May 2008... "	Nikos Evagelou (m), Vangelis Evangelou (l)	32	72	104	1
6	Nikolas Metaxas Nikolas Metaxas Nikolas Metaxas is a Cypriot singer and songwriter who became famous after coming second in the first season of the Greek version of The X Factor....	"I Can't Be"	Nikolas Metaxas Nikolas Metaxas Nikolas Metaxas is a Cypriot singer and songwriter who became famous after coming second in the first season of the Greek version of The X Factor....  (m & l)	40	60	100	2
7	Marlain Angelidou	"Rejection"	Marlain Angelidou (m & l)	48	36	84	3
8	Nikolas Metaxas Nikolas Metaxas Nikolas Metaxas is a Cypriot singer and songwriter who became famous after coming second in the first season of the Greek version of The X Factor....	"Butterfly"	Nikolas Metaxas Nikolas Metaxas Nikolas Metaxas is a Cypriot singer and songwriter who became famous after coming second in the first season of the Greek version of The X Factor.... (m & l)	24	30	54	6
9	Elizabeth Anastasiou	"Sugar Mountain"	Michael Neophytou (m), Sotira Hadjipanagi (l)	4	24	28	10
10	Constantinos Andronikou	"Calling You"	Constantinos Andronikou (m & l)	28	6	34	8

At Eurovision

Cyprus took part in the second semi-final on 22 May 2008 and scored 36 points, of which the maximum 12 points were awarded by the United Kingdom, 8 by Bulgaria, 5 by Hungary, 4 by Turkey, 2 by each of Georgia, Albania and Switzerland, and 1 by Serbia, with the other fourteen voting countries all failing to award the song any points at all. This tally placed the Cypriot entry only 15th out of the 19 competitors in the semi-final, so it comfortably failed to qualify for the final. It did not have the regular European promotional tour as in previous years. Evdokia Kadi was invited as a guest to the Greek national selection where she promoted her entry.