Greece: Marina Satti will sing "Zari" at Eurovision 2024 (2024)

I am SO excited. I have wanted Marina to represent Greece ever since she released Koupes. A song featuring the zourna and in Greek sounds like it could be in the style of Mantissa?

So many years I didn´t have high expectations in Greece at ESC like this year. I appreciate Marina Satti as a singer with an immense artistic level. “Zari” seems to be quite interesting.

We’re back in Greek, baby!

Given the underwhelming songs we got so far, Greece’s alleged folk sound will stand out and it has a stance for high placing this year!

I saw Marina live in London last week! Perfect vocals, good stage presence and her repertoire beautiful mixtures of Greek more traditional (not ethnic but traditional) elements with pop contemporary sound! Plus those mixes of traditional songs really beautiful performed!! I really recommend to give it a go to her album! I have high expectations!!!!

This could be the winner of ESC 2024 I feel

Marina has a very strong team behind her so I’m expecting the full package including a strong song and a good staging. She has fokas and Majnoon who has choreographed Loreen (tattoo), Rosalia, Anita and other major artists. Such talented artists will only take on projects that have potential. That’s why I expect Marina is preparing a strong entry for greece this year. A top 10 is almost guaranteed

Excitement is HERE babe ! Good luck

We shouldn’t have too high expectations of Zari. We had that with some of the other entries this year and then we were disappointed. If we have low expectations or don’t expect anything different, then we will be blown away!

I was already forgetting about her, but this just brought all of the excitement back! Everything around Zari sounds promising 🙂

A few additional information from Greek media. The song is written by Marina herself, along with a team of composers that she has previously worked with, such as OGE who’s a hip hop/urban artist and composer. One of their previous collaborations was a song called “Ponos Kryfos”, which was one of Marina’s biggest hits. The song will be definitey more uptempo, and we should expect a combination of modern and traditional sounds, since it will feature a traditional Greek (and Middle Eastern) instrument called ‘zurna’. The song will be presented during a special show by ERT1 on March 7th, which…Read more »

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Evangelinos mostly helped truly awful songs so far, but he was also the stage director of Greece 2022. That was a good one. Literally the only good one was not mentioned in this article. This one also sounds promising.

I have heard some of her other songs and they feel a bit TOO ethnic for me and the casual listener. They don’t have much of an actual melody so it’s possible this entry will qualify but come in the bottom five like EeAa last year. However, what makes me hopeful is that Satti says it’s something people can dance to, so hopefully it will be catchy!

Let’s see what Greece shall serve this year! I am rooting for something contemporary, not very folklore, but we will just have to wait and see.

Great to have greek language back in the contest, good luck Marina