Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990

Cyprus was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 with the song "Milas poli", 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.

Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990
Eurovision Song Contest 1990
Participating broadcaster	Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)
Country	Cyprus
Selection process	National final
Selection date	13 March 1990
Competing entry
Song	"Milas poli"
Artist	Anastasiou
Songwriters	Haris Anastasiou John Vickers
Placement
Final result	14th, 36 points
Participation chronology
◄1989 • 1990 • 1991►

Before Eurovision

Diagonismós Tragoudioú Giourovízion 1990

Competing entries

The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) opened a submission period for Cypriot artists and composers to submit songs until 20 January 1990.^[1] By the end of the submission period, over 85 entries had been submitted.^[2][3] On 15 February 1990, in radio room 1 at CyBC, a 17-member jury panel listened to the songs and selected the competing entries.^[4][5] 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.^[5]

Competing entries^[2][3][6][7]

Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
7	Loukas Chamatsos and Maria Siakalli	"Ti nychta afti" (Τη νύχτα αυτή)	Maria Siakalli
18	Evridiki	"Ta logia pou mou les" (Τα λόγια που μου λες)	Giorgos Theofanous, Leonidas Malenis
30	Kaiti Chartosia	"Mono esy" (Μόνο εσύ)	Marios Oikonomidis
31	Kaiti Chartosia and Nikos Logothetis	"San mia mousiki" (Σαν μια μουσική)	Marios Oikonomidis, Giorgos Xinaris
37	Alex Panagi	"Pistevo" (Πιστεύω)	Andreas Giorgallis, Alex Panagi
54	Haris Anastasiou	"Chronia Polla" (Χρόνια Πολλά)	John Vickers, Soula Christou Orfanidou
55	Haris Anastasiou	"Milas poli" (Μιλάς πολύ)	Haris Anastasiou, John Vickers
56	Haris Anastasiou	"Kante me star" (Κάντε με σταρ)	Haris Anastasiou
57	Kristis Fantaios	"Gia sena asteri mou" (Για σένα αστέρι μου)	Kristis Fantaios
85	Yiannis Dimitriou	"Synantithikame" (Συνάντηθήκαμε)	Aristos Moschovakis, Yiannis Dimitriou

Competing entry selection jury members^[4][7]

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 Diagonismós Tragoudioú Giourovízion 1990 (Greek: Διαγωνισμός Τραγουδιού Γιουροβίζιον 1990).^[6] The final was held in the Convention Centre in Nicosia, and was hosted by Stavros Louras.^[8] 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.^[7][8] Each jury member awarded songs in the same way as in the Eurovision Song Contest: from 12 to 1.^[4][9]

Final - 13 March 1990^[2][7][9]

Draw	Artist	Song	Conductor	Result	Place
1	Loukas Chamatsos and Maria Siakalli	"Ti nychta afti" (Τη νύχτα αυτή)	Doros Georgiadis	77	10
2	Haris Anastasiou	"Kante me star" (Κάντε με σταρ)		148	3
3	Haris Anastasiou	"Chronia Polla" (Χρόνια Πολλά)		113	8
4	Kaiti Chartosia	"Mono esy" (Μόνο εσύ)	Zan Pol Seisy	145	5
5	Yiannis Dimitriou	"Synantithikame" (Συνάντηθήκαμε)	Thomas Strase	116	7
6	Kaiti Chartosia and Nikos Logothetis	"San mia mousiki" (Σαν μια μουσική)	Doros Georgiadis	108	9
7	Kristis Fantaios	"Gia sena asteri mou" (Για σένα αστέρι μου)		135	6
8	Haris Anastasiou	"Milas poli" (Μιλάς πολύ)	Kristian Leibl	178	1
9	Evridiki	"Ta logia pou mou les" (Τα λόγια που μου λες)		166	2
10	Alex Panagi	"Pistevo" (Πιστεύω)	Andreas Giorgallis	148	3

At Eurovision

On the night of the final, Haris Anastasiou - performing mononymously as Anastasiou - performed 21st in the running order, following Austria and preceding Finland. At the close of voting "Milas poli" had received 35 points, placing Cyprus 14th out of 22 countries.^[10] The Cypriot jury awarded its 12 points to Italy.^[11]  

Voting

Points awarded to Cyprus[11] Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points  Finland  Greece  Sweden 5 points  Belgium  Israel 4 points  Italy 3 points 2 points  Denmark  Norway 1 point

Points awarded by Cyprus[11] Score Country 12 points  Italy 10 points  Yugoslavia 8 points  Spain 7 points  France 6 points  Greece 5 points  Luxembourg 4 points  Denmark 3 points  United Kingdom 2 points  Netherlands 1 point   Switzerland