Marina Satti will signify Greece on the 68th Eurovision Music Contest, which will likely be held within the Swedish metropolis of Malmö in Could 2024, state broadcaster ERT introduced on Tuesday.
The 36-year-old artist’s music is generally characterised by combining conventional Greek, Arabic, Balkan and Anatolian sounds with city components, rhythm and manufacturing.
It was the third time ERT steered her to take part in Eurovision, “however it was now that I felt prepared for it,” Satti advised the media.
The track to be carried out by Satti is but to be chosen. ERT, her label, Golden Data and Minos EMI, in addition to Satti herself are open to concepts and have invited songwriters to submit their proposals beginning with submissions on October 25, 2023.
Marina Satti was born in Athens to a Sudanese-Arab father and a Cretan mom. She was raised in Heraklion, Crete, in a culturally numerous surroundings that had a major affect on her musical improvement in addition to on the multicultural nature of her creative profession.
She started classical piano coaching at an early age and classical vocal coaching in highschool. She enrolled on the Nationwide Technical College of Athens to check structure with out graduating.
In 2008, after finding out with the baritone Panos Dimas, Satti obtained a primary diploma in lyric monody with honors and a primary prize. A yr later, she earned a second diploma in superior classical research whereas additionally finding out jazz on the Nakas Conservatory. In 2010, she accomplished semesters in Jazz Composition and in addition in Modern Writing and Manufacturing at Berklee School of Music by way of a scholarship.
In 2017, her single “Mantissa”, impressed by conventional music from Epirus, western Greece, went viral on YouTube and has 54 million views thus far.
Greeks on social media hailed Satti’s participation in Eurovision and admitted that Greece has not executed properly in the previous couple of years.