{"id":454831,"date":"2026-03-03T06:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:01:19","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%b7-greece-akylas-completes-promo-tour-in-serbia-films-ferto-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454831\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 Greece: Akylas Completes Promo Tour in Serbia &#038; Films &#8220;Ferto&#8221; Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek representative Akylas has had a busy week promoting his song \u201cFerto\u201d in Serbia and filming the official music video.<\/p>\n<p>Akylas, who will represent Greece at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, has filmed the music video for his entry. ERT has released behind-the-scenes video from the filming of the clip, which took place earlier last week. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Akylas traveled to Serbia to promote his song \u201cFerto\u201d. His most high-profile appearance came as part of the Serbian national final, which took place on Saturday night, but he also made media appearances across a number of outlets. <\/p>\n<p>Akylas also had the opportunity to meet with \u017deljko Joksimovi\u0107, who competed in Eurovision 2004 and 20012, placing second and third respectively. \u017deljko gave advice to Akylas and exchanged a gift with the Greek representative. <\/p>\n<p>Akylas will represent Greece in the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. He will perform \u201cFerto\u201d in the first half of the first Semi-Final on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/press.ert.gr\/grafeio-typou-ert\/eurovision-2026-o-akylas-xesikose-to-tileoptiko-koino-tis-servias-ermineyontas-to-ferto-ston-ethniko-teliko-tis-choras-to-savvato-28-fevroyarioy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ERT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>Greece debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, when they were represented by Marinella and the song \u201cKrasi, thalassa kai t\u2019agori mou\u201d, which finished in 11th place with 7 points. Three years later, Greece earned their first top 5 finish with Paschalis, Marianna, Robert, and Bessy, who finished in 5th place with \u201cMathima solfege\u201d. In 2001, Greece achieved their first top 3 placing with Antique and the song \u201cI Would Die For You\u201d. The song became a European hit and charted across the continent. In 2005, Helena Paparizou returned to the Eurovision stage as a solo artist and brought Greece their first, and to date only, victory. Her song \u201cMy Number One\u201d won with 230 points, beating runners-up Malta by 38 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Greek representative Akylas has had a busy week promoting his song \u201cFerto\u201d in Serbia and filming the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[164202,96,33958,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-454831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-akylas","tag-entertainment","tag-headline","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}