Performed by: Keti Garbi
Music by: Dimosthenis Stringlis
Lyrics by: Dimosthenis Stringlis
Conductor: Haris Andreadis
Language: Greek
Placing: 9th (64 points)
"Ellada, Hora Tou Fotos" (Greek: Ελλάδα, χώρα του φωτός, English: "Greece, Country of Light") is a song by Greek pop singer Katerina Garbi. It was Greece's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, and a single from Garbi's fifth solo album Os Ton Paradeiso. "Ellada, Hora Tou Fotos" was the first CD single to ever be commercially released in Greece, beginning a new trend in the way Greek artists would release 1-5 tracks to the market.
The song was performed sixth on the night, following Denmark's Tommy Seebach Band with "Under stjernerne på himlen" and preceding Belgium's Barbara Dex with "Iemand als jij". At the close of voting, it had received 64 points, placing 9th in a field of 25.[2] The song is in fact a praise of Greece itself, with Garbi singing about its great intellectual and cultural heritage, despite criticizing the country's inability to transform and develop and emphasizing on the great need for a change. It is thus considered partly a political and social criticism song. It was succeeded as Greek representative at the 1994 Contest by Costas Bigalis & The Sea Lovers with "To Trehandiri".
Garbi has been involved in many fund-raising acts for Greece, holding numerous concerts for homeless children, the "Erithros Stavros" of Greece and sick children of Athens hospital. She also held many concerts for the Red Cross in many countries. She has contributed to Live Aid concerts along with other well-known Greek singers for numerous causes. This has added to her popularity. Recently she has devoted a concert to the fire victims of Greece (2007), where all the money would be used as charity for the victims.
Lyrics:
Ellatha, hora tu fotos
Ellatha, hora tu fotos, tu kosmu, arhi ke yirismos
Topos pu thialexe o Theos, kati trehi, pera vrehi
Erhete thiskolos keros, ke su fonazi o uranos
Katse skepsu, loyikepsu
Ti mia mas pezun, rok tin ali tsifteteli
Pethia tu Platona ke tu Aristoteli
Mas xeyelane me sekleti ke meraki
Pnevma athanato se troi to saraki
Ti mia mas pezun, rok tin ali tsifteteli
Pethia tu Platona ke tu Aristoteli
Mas xeyelane me sekleti ke meraki
Pnevma athanato se troi to saraki
Elatha, hora tu fotos, polemistis irinikos
Kan' alo ena vima bros, yia prohora irthe i ora
Ise tu kosmu to krasi, ki as mi to xeris ute esi
Katse vres ta ke evga pes ta
Ti mia mas pezun, rok tin ali tsifteteli
Pethia tu Platona ke tu Aristoteli
Mas xeyelane me sekleti ke meraki
Pnevma athanato se troi to saraki
Ti mia mas pezun, rok tin ali tsifteteli
Pethia tu Platona ke tu Aristoteli
Mas xeyelane me sekleti ke meraki
Pnevma athanato se troi to saraki
Ti mia mas pezun, rok tin ali tsifteteli
Pethia tu Platona ke tu Aristoteli
Greek transcript:
Ελλάδα, χώρα του φωτός, του κόσμου, αρχή και γυρισμός
Τόπος που διάλεξε ο Θεός, κάτι τρέχει, πέρα βρέχει
Έρχεται δύσκολος καιρός, και σου φωνάζει ο ουρανός
Κάτσε σκέψου, λογικέψου
Τη μια μας παίζουν, ροκ την άλλη τσιφτετέλι
Παιδιά του Πλάτωνα και του Αριστοτέλη
Μας ξεγελάνε με σεκλέτι και μεράκι
Πνεύμα αθάνατο σε τρώει το σαράκι
Τη μια μας παίζουν, ροκ την άλλη τσιφτετέλι
Παιδιά του Πλάτωνα και του Αριστοτέλη
Μας ξεγελάνε με σεκλέτι και μεράκι
Πνεύμα αθάνατο σε τρώει το σαράκι
Ελλάδα, χώρα του φωτός, πολεμιστής ειρηνικός
Κάν' άλλο ένα βήμα μπρος, για προχώρα ήρθε η ώρα
Είσαι του κόσμου το κρασί, κι ας μην το ξέρεις ούτε εσύ
Κάτσε βρες τα κι έβγα πες τα
Τη μια μας παίζουν, ροκ την άλλη τσιφτετέλι
Παιδιά του Πλάτωνα και του Αριστοτέλη
Μας ξεγελάνε με σεκλέτι και μεράκι
Πνεύμα αθάνατο σε τρώει το σαράκι
Τη μια μας παίζουν, ροκ την άλλη τσιφτετέλι
Παιδιά του Πλάτωνα και του Αριστοτέλη
Μας ξεγελάνε με σεκλέτι και μεράκι
Πνεύμα αθάνατο σε τρώει το σαράκι
Τη μια μας παίζουν ροκ την άλλη τσιφτετέλι
Παιδιά του Πλάτωνα και του Αριστοτέλ
English:
Greece, country of light
Greece, country of light, the world's beginning and comeback
A place chosen by God, something's going on, you don't give a damn
Difficult times are coming, and the sky is shouting to you
Sit down and think, get to your senses
One time they play us rock music and the other tsifteteli
Children of Plato and Aristotle
They trick us with sadness and taste
Oh immortal spirit, the evil is destroying you
One time they play us rock music and the other tsifteteli
Children of Plato and Aristotle
They trick us with sadness and taste
Oh immortal spirit, the evil is destroying you
Greece, country of light, peaceful fighter
Make another move to the from, go forward, it's time
You are the world's wine, even if you don't know it
Sit down and figure it out and stand up and tell it
One time they play us rock music and the other tsifteteli
Children of Plato and Aristotle
They trick us with sadness and taste
Oh immortal spirit, the evil is destroying you
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