Cyprus was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 with the song "", composed by John Vickers, with lyrics by Haris Anastasiou, and performed by Anastasiou himself. The Cypriot participating broadcaster, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), selected its entry through a national final.
Before Eurovision
Competing entries The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) opened a submission period for Cypriot artists and composers to submit songs until 20 January 1990. By the end of the submission period, over 85 entries had been submitted. On 15 February 1990, in radio room 1 at CyBC, a 17-member jury panel listened to the songs and selected the competing entries. The selection was done in three stages: first the songs were listened to and the invalid entries were taken out of the contest; then the jury voted and selected 20 entries; and from those 20 entries, the ten competing entries for the national final were selected. +Competing entriesArtistSongSongwriter(s) 7 Loukas Chamatsos and Maria Siakalli "Ti nychta afti" Maria Siakalli 18 Evridiki "Ta logia pou mou les" 30 Kaiti Chartosia "Mono esy" Marios Oikonomidis 31 Kaiti Chartosia and Nikos Logothetis "San mia mousiki" 37 Alex Panagi "Pistevo" 54 Haris Anastasiou "Chronia Polla" 55 Haris Anastasiou "Milas poli" 56 Haris Anastasiou "Kante me star" Haris Anastasiou 57 Kristis Fantaios "Gia sena asteri mou" Kristis Fantaios 85 Yiannis Dimitriou "Synantithikame" +Competing entry selection jury members Christodoulos Achilleudis‡ – music inspector for Middle Education Sempou Apkarian‡ – music teacher, composer, and conductor Yiannis Bravos‡ – music director of SMEF (National Guard Military Band) Themis Christodolou‡ – musician and former head of CyBC music department Lygia Constantinidou‡ – head of CyBC music department Paula Fenech‡ – writer and radio operator Giorgos Kotsonis‡ – composer and deputy head of CyBC music department Aris Lemesos – choir master Tasos Michaelidis‡ – disc jockey Marinos Mitellas‡ – music teacher Dimitris Pavanis‡ – foreign music programme officer at CyBC Mike Sarridis‡ – disc jockey and CyBC partner Giorgos Siecherlis‡ – disc jockey and CyBC partner Leandros Sitaros – choir master Maro Skordi‡ – music teacher Michalis Stavridis‡ – music inspector for Primary Education Alex Zografou – musician and conductor
Final The final was broadcast live at 21:00 (EET) on RIK on 13 March 1990 in a show called (). The final was held in the Convention Centre in Nicosia, and was hosted by Stavros Louras. The results were decided by a 23-member jury, consisting of 14 of the jurors who chose the competing entries (indicated above with a dagger; ‡) plus 9 random members of the audience. Each jury member awarded songs in the same way as in the Eurovision Song Contest: from 12 to 1.
+Final - 13 March 1990ArtistSongConductor PointsPlace 1Loukas Chamatsos and Maria Siakalli"Ti nychta afti" ()Doros Georgiadis7710 2Haris Anastasiou"Kante me star" ()1483 3Haris Anastasiou"Chronia Polla" ()1138 4Kaiti Chartosia"Mono esy" ()Zan Pol Seisy1455 5Yiannis Dimitriou"Synantithikame" ()Thomas Strase1167 6Kaiti Chartosia and Nikos Logothetis"San mia mousiki" ()Doros Georgiadis1089 7Kristis Fantaios"Gia sena asteri mou" ()1356 8Haris Anastasiou"Milas poli" ()Kristian Leibl1781 9Evridiki"Ta logia pou mou les" () 1662 10Alex Panagi"Pistevo" ()Andreas Giorgallis1483
At Eurovision On the night of the final, Haris Anastasiou - performing mononymously as Anastasiou - performed 21st in the running order, following and preceding . At the close of voting "" had received 36 points, placing Cyprus 14th out of 22 countries. The Cypriot jury awarded its 12 points to .
Voting
+ Points awarded to Cyprus Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
+ Points awarded by Cyprus Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
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