Helena Paparizou's Eurovision Debut in a Swedish-Greek Duo

MAY 15 2001 · 12:00

Antique · "Die for You" · Greece · 2001 Placement: 3 · Score: 147 · Language: English, Greek · Composers: Niklas Pettersson-Wandt, Christos Dantis · Venue: Parken Stadium · Host: Copenhagen, Denmark · Type: national debut · Broadcast: digital hd Antique — Helena Paparizou (20) and Nikos Panagiotidis — take the Parken Stadium open-air stage for Greece. The duo are Swedish-Greek, formed in Stockholm. 'Die for You' is a Mediterranean-tinged English-Greek bilingual pop song with Swedish-pop production gloss. 147 points for 3rd place — Greece's best-ever result to that point. Olsen Brothers' Denmark is hosting. Paparizou would win Eurovision four years later with 'My Number One' for Greece as solo artist. Context The Swedish-Greek diaspora in Stockholm has been substantial since the 1960s Greek labor migration to Scandinavia. Paparizou was born and raised in Gothenburg. Christos Dantis was Greece's rising Eurovision composer. The 2001 Antique result vaulted Paparizou into solo-artist planning. Legacy Antique dissolved in 2003. Paparizou's 2005 solo win cemented her as Greece's most important Eurovision artist. Her 2001 debut is now retrospectively read as the foundation of her career. The Swedish-Greek hybrid production template influenced subsequent Greek Eurovision entries through the 2010s.