Eleni Foureira

At 37 years old, Eleni Foureira has this physical status:

Career

Foureira began her music as a member of the Mystique group. Andreas Giatrakos discovered her, and the company also included Alkmini Chatzigianni and Maria Makri. They debuted "Se alli selida" in 2007, and the following year, they gained fame with the single "Min kaneis pos de thymasai" featuring Greek hip hop group NEVMA. In 2009, they went broke.

Foureira signed a solo deal with Universal Music Greece, the same brand as Mystique, after Mystique broke up. She appeared on Mega Channel's charity program Just the Two of Us. Panagiotis Petrakis, a singer, and actress Panagiotis Petrakis tied for first place. In December 2010, Foureira recorded her self-titled debut studio album. She then joined Minos EMI. Ti Poniro Mou Zitas was her second album, but Anemos agapis was released in 2014. She appeared in the Athens musical Barbarella: the 80's Musical from 2015 to 2016, as Sofia, alongside other Greek pop stars including Ivi Adamou and Katy Garbi. Following the success of Anemos agapis, she left Minos EMI and signed with Panik Records. She appeared on season three of So You Think You Can Dance, the Greek version of So You Think You Can Dance. Valiant Studios' fourth studio album, Valiantissa, was released in 2017.

Foureira has attempted to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest for the past several years. With Manos Pyrovolakis, she qualified for the Greek national final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Greece, performing the song "Kivotos tou Noe" in 2010. They came in second second, behind Giorgos Alkaios. At Eurosong 2013 - a MAD show, she appeared "Wild Dances" with Ruslana. She considered participating in Eurosong 2015, a NERIT & MAD exhibition, but ultimately did not participate. She attempted to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Come Tiki Tam," but Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation refused her (ERT). She was turned down by the radio for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 once more in 2017.

Foureira would represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Fuego," according to the campaign's founder in February 2018. Alex Papaconstantinou, a Greek-Swedish songwriter, composed the song. Foureira was named one of three ethnic Albanians competing this year, each of whom represent different countries. Foureira posed with Albanian contestant Eugent Bushpepa, who gave the crossed hands sign denoting Albania's double eagle. Nationalist Greeks protested Foureira, demanding that she be barred from the tournament, but Cyprus continued to support her. She advanced from the first semi-final to grand final on May 8, 2018 on May 8. She finished second in the national juries and the second most votes from the public tele voting process in the final, on May 12, 2018; this was Cyprus' best Eurovision placement in history.

Eleni signed a new contract with Sony Music just shy of Eurovision 2018. Helena Paparizou (who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2005) became only the second Greek artist to sign a major record label by doing so. In late June, she unveiled her Greek single "Caramela," which topped the Digital Single Chart in late June. She released "Tómame," a non-album album track that had previously been a top-five hit in mid-October. "Fuego" has been certified platinum in Spain, gold in Norway, and Sweden, becoming Eleni's first song to achieve this.

Eleni's first international project, Gypsy Woman (EP), featured the song "El Ritmo Psicodelico" as the lead single on May 17, 2019. She began a European tour in various cities in Greece, Spain, and the United Kingdom to further promote her studio project. Foureira was named as one of the four artists from previous competitions for an interval act in the final, where she performed the 2007 runner-up Verka Serduchka's "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" on the Host Broadcaster press conference. She was most active in collaborations with musicians such as Kaan and Snoop Dogg, and Claydee throughout the year. Yayo's electropop and R&B single was released in March 2020. "Temperatura" was released in June by the Greek singer in June, which was later accompanied by a Spanish version.

She appeared as a surprise guest at Festi i Kngs 58, Albania's national selection competition for Eurovision, held in Tirana, Albania, in December. She performed a few Albanian folk songs with television host Alketa Vejsiu, as well as a monologue in the Albanian language on her Albanian roots, since she moved from Albania during her childhood.

Eleni Foureira's two dance-pop, electropop, nu-disco, and synth-pop albums "Light It Up" (in October) and "Dokimase Me" (in December), both of which feature 1980s and retrofuturism tropes, are set to reach the end of 2020. The singer announced that her forthcoming second extended play, titled Light It Up, will be released in early 2021. "Mporei," a song with Greek rapper MadClip, was released in May 2021 as the best duet at the Super Music Awards.

She appeared on "Mono Esy Kai Ego" with Greek singer Konstantinos Argiros in May 2022. Foureira released her fifth studio album, Poli Ploki, on June 3rd, a follower of the singles "Mporei" and "Aeraki (To Thiliko)" on June 3rd.

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