Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984

Eurovision Song Contest 1984
Participating broadcaster	Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)
Country	Cyprus
National selection
Selection process	National final
Selection date(s)	26 February 1984
Selected artist(s)	Andy Paul
Selected song	"Anna Mari-Elena"
Selected songwriter(s)	Antreas Pavlou
Finals performance
Final result	15th, 31 points
Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄1983 • 1984 • 1985►

Cyprus was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the song "Anna Mari-Elena" (Άννα Μαρί-Έλενα), written and performed by Andy Paul. The Cypriot participating broadcaster, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), selected its entry through a national final.

Before Eurovision

National final

Competing entries

The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) opened a submission period for Cypriot artists and composers to submit songs until 28 January 1984.^[1] Forty submissions were received, of which three were revealed to be invalid during the initial presentation of the songs.^[2][3] Two of the invalid submissions were theatrical works, and the other had plagiarised lyrics.^[3]

Format

The national final was held on 26 February 1984 at the Filoxenia Hotel in Nicosia and was hosted by Pavlos Pavlou.^[4] The results were decided by a 154-member jury consisting of 46 professionals from the press and other organisations, and 108 members of the public.^[3][5] Members of the public who wished to participate in the jury had to be Cypriot nationals over the age of 16, and had between 12 February and 16 February 1984 to apply.^[5] Over a thousand people applied to become a jury member and the 108 jury members were drawn at random on 20 February 1984 at the CyBC buildings.^[2]

The competition was done in four stages and lasted the entire day, from around 10:00 EET until 22:00 EET.^[2][3] In the first stage, the submitted recordings of all forty songs were presented twice and each jury member chose their ten favourite songs, after which the votes were collected and the ten songs with the highest number of votes progressed to the second stage. The ten songs were presented again and were then whittled down to four songs, and from those four songs, two were chosen. The winner was chosen out of the final two songs, where each jury gave one vote to their favourite song, and the runner-up was kept as a back-up entry in the case the winning song could not go to the Eurovision Song Contest.^[2] The last part of the competition, with the final four songs, was broadcast on TV and radio live.^[2][6]

Second Round - 26 February 1984^[4]^[7]

Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
2	Andy Paul	"Anna Mari-Elena" (Άννα Μαρί-Ελένα)	Antreas Pavlou
6	Nikki Vissi	"Htes" (Χτες)	Anna Vissi, Lia Vissi
14
17
23
26
30	Yiannis Demetriou	"Thimame (san to rok ent rol)" (Θυμάμαι (σαν το ροκ εντ ρολ))	John Vickers, Aristos Moschovakis
35
36
39	Jimmy Makulis	"Triantafila tou Mai" (Τριαντάφυλλα του Μάη)	Jimmy Makulis

Third Round - 26 February 1984^[4]^[8]^[9]

Draw	Artist	Song	Result	Place
2	Andy Paul	"Anna Mari-Elena" (Άννα Μαρί-Ελένα)	124	1
6	Nikki Vissi	"Htes" (Χτες)	103	2
30	Yiannis Demetriou	"Thimame (san to rok ent rol)" (Θυμάμαι (σαν το ροκ εντ ρολ))	43	3
39	Jimmy Makulis	"Triantafila tou Mai" (Τριαντάφυλλα του Μάη)	36	4

Fourth & Final Round - 26 February 1984^[8]

Artist	Song	Result	Place
Andy Paul	"Anna Mari-Elena" (Άννα Μαρί-Ελένα)	97	1
Nikki Vissi	"Htes" (Χτες)	57	2

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Paul performed seventh in the running order, following United Kingdom and preceding Belgium.^[10] At the close of voting "Anna Maria Lena" had received 31 points, placing Cyprus 15th of the 19 entries. The Cypriot jury awarded its 12 points to Sweden.^[11]  

Voting

Points awarded to Cyprus[12] Score Country 12 points  Yugoslavia 10 points  Denmark 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points  Ireland  Sweden 3 points 2 points 1 point  France

Points awarded by Cyprus[12] Score Country 12 points  Sweden 10 points  Ireland 8 points  Yugoslavia 7 points  Luxembourg 6 points  Spain 5 points  Denmark 4 points  Finland 3 points  France 2 points  United Kingdom 1 point   Switzerland

References

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8. "Με Το Τραγούδι «Αννα, Μαρι-Ελενα» Νικητής ένας Κύπριος από το Έσσεξ Αγγλίας!" [With The Song "Anna, Marie-Elena": The winner is a Cypriot from Essex, England]. ΧΑΡΑΥΓΗ. 27 February 1984. p. 10. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
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