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Anna Vissi is a Greek-Cypriot singer and songwriter who started her career in 1973 before establishing herself in the recording industry by winning the Thessaloniki Song Festival in 1977 and releasing her debut album. To date, she has released over a dozen studio albums, three live albums, four soundtracks and over a dozen singles, making her one of her home country's most successful singers.

She was first selected to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 in The Hague with the song "Autostop", where she was backed up by the group The Epikouri and finished in 13th place with 30 points, giving the country its worst result in four years.

Her next participation came just two years later in Harrogate when she represented her home country with the song "Móno i agápi", which finished in 5th place with 85 points, matching the result later achieved by the 1997 entry by Hara & Andreas Constantinou and the 2004 entry by Lisa Andreas and remaining the country's best result until the 2018 Contest runner up "Fuego" by Eleni Foureira.

After a gap of almost a quarter of a century, she made her third and final appearance on the Contest stage by representing Greece for the second time in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 on home soil in Athens with the song "Everything", which finished in 9th place with 128 points.

Aside from her Contest appearances, she has also delved into the world of theatre and television as well as appearing onstage with singers Sakis Rouvas and Constantinos Christoforou.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1980
Songs
"What's Another Year" • "Theater" • "Love Enough for Two" • "Cinéma" • "Amsterdam" • "Non so che darei" • "Um grande, grande amor" • "Du bist Musik" • "Papa pingouin" • "Just nu!" • "Hé, hé m'sieurs dames" • "Quédate esta noche" • "Autostop" • "Tænker altid på dig" • "Petrol" • "Sámiid ædnan" • "Euro-Vision" • "Bitaqat Khub" • "Huilumies"
Performers
Johnny LoganKatja EbsteinPrima DonnaPaolaMaggie MacNealAlan SorrentiJosé CidBlue DanubeSophie & MagalyTomas LedinProfilTrigo LimpioAnna Vissi & The EpikouriBamses VennerAjda PekkanSverre Kjelsberg & Mattis HættaTelexSamira BensaïdVesa-Matti Loiri
Eurovision Song Contest 1982
Songs
"Ein bißchen Frieden" • "Hora" • "Amour on t'aime" • "Si tu aimes ma musique" • "Móno i agápi" • "Cours après le temps" • "One Step Further" • "Dag efter dag" • "Sonntag" • "Él" • "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" • "Adieu" • "Bem bom" • "Halo, halo" • "Hani?" • "Jij en ik" • "Video, Video" • "Nuku pommiin"
Performers
NicoleAvi ToledanoArlette ZolaStellaAnna VissiSvetlanaBardoChipsMessLucíaThe DuskeysJahn Teigen & Anita SkorganDoceAskaNecoBill van DijkBrixxKojo
Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Songs
Final
"Hard Rock Hallelujah" • "Never Let You Go" • "Lejla" • "Tornerò" • "Invincible" • "We Are the Winners" • "Show Me Your Love" • "Without Your Love" • "Everything" • "Every Song Is a Cry for Love" • "Super Star" • "Ninanajna" • "Moja štikla" • "Alvedansen" • "No No Never" • "If We All Give a Little" • "I Hear Your Heart" • "Twist of Love" • "Teenage Life" • "Loca" • "Un Blodymary" • "Il était temps" • "Together We Are One" • "I Do"
Semi Final
"Follow My Heart" • "Je t'adore" • "Congratulations" • "Zjarr e ftohtë" • "Why Angels Cry" • "Mr Nobody" • "Let Me Cry" • "Through My Window" • "Coisas de nada" • "Amambanda" • "La Coco-Dance" • "Mum" • "Sense tu"
Participants
Final
LordiDima BilanHari Mata HariMihai TrăistariuCarolaLT UnitedTina KarolAndréAnna VissiBrian KennedySibel TüzünElena RisteskaSeverinaChristine GuldbrandsenTexas Lightningsix4oneVocal Group CosmosSidsel Ben SemmaneDaz SampsonArsenium & Natalia Gordienko feat. Connect-RLas KetchupVirginie PouchainEddie ButlerFabrizio Faniello
Semi Final
Ich Troje feat. Real McCoyKate RyanSilvía NightLuiz EjlliAnnet ArtaniAnžej DežanMariana PopovaSandra OxenrydNonstopTrebleSéverine FerrerPolina SmolovaJenny