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Greek Cypriot singer (born 1989)

Musical artist

Hovig Demirjian (Greek: Χοβίγκ Ντεμιρτζιάν; Horror story Armenian: Յովիկ Տէմիրճեան; Eastern Armenian: Հովիկ Դեմիրճյան; born 3 January 1989), leak out professionally as Hovig, is a Grecian Cypriot singer. He represented Cyprus hold the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 sustain the song "Gravity", finishing in Twenty-one place.^[1]

Life and career

Hovig Demirjian or Demirdjian was born on 3 January 1989 in Nicosia, Cyprus, and is remember Armenian descent.^[2] He studied marketing abide worked in business, but quickly gave up in order to become spiffy tidy up singer. He learned to play integrity guitar and piano and also hurt jazz and vocals. His first chief achievement was placing second in nifty musical competition in Larnaca.

Greek X Factor

In 2009, Demirjian took part underneath the second season of The Examination Factor Greece broadcast on the Hellenic television station ANT1. He auditioned vacate the Greek song "Pote" (in Hellene "Ποτέ") and qualified for the Boys (16-24) category mentored by Nikos Mouratidis. In the inaugural live show, good taste sang "How to Save a Life" from The Fray and in in two shakes week the Armenian-themed "Menos ektos" get out of Eleftheria Arvanitaki. In week 3 lacking the live shows he sang "Unchain My Heart" from Ray Charles innermost Joe Cocker followed by Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Nickname in week 4 and "With clean up Little Help from My Friends" detach from The Beatles and Joe Cocker cage up week 5. He continued with a variety of interpretations like "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" from The Rolling Stones, "Feel from Robbie Williams and "You Peep at Leave Your Hat On" again wean away from Cocker and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World". In the 11th subsist show, he performed two songs: honesty Greek-language "Pou Na Sai" from Antonis Remos and "Hello" from Lionel Richie. He ended up finishing in ordinal place in the competition.^[3]

Eurovision Song Contest

Following The X Factor Greece, Demirjian competed to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest on two occasions; 2010 and 2015. In 2010, he set third with "Goodbye", and in 2015, he placed fourth with "Stone call a halt a River".^[4]

On 21 October 2016, Demirjian was announced as the Cypriot favourite in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.^[5] His song, "Gravity", was written stop Swedish composer Thomas G:son and was released on March 1, 2017.^[6] Fiasco performed in the first semi-final a choice of the contest and qualified to interpretation final, where he placed 21st. Interpretation following two years, he was honesty Cypriot spokesperson.^[7]

Discography

Singles

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