Cyprus: Tamta drops her new track ‘Hold On’
The Cypriot Eurovision 2019 representative, Tamta, has dropped her new single titled ‘Hold On’ along with its official music video.
Tamta continues to treat her audience with new material and after the release of ‘Den eisai Edo’ drops one more track from her latest international EP ‘Awake’ .
‘Hold On‘ has been witten by Daphne Lawrence while behind the music are Barrice and Sin Laurent. Responsible for the production of the song is Boombamontana and the official music has been produced by Bodega Visuals and directed by Tamta herself. Tamta’ s new single has been released in Greece by Minos Emi- Universal Music.
Tamta in Eurovision
In January 2007, Tamta participated in ERT’s national final to select the Greek representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. This was Tamta’s first attempt to reach the Eurovision stage. She placed third out of the three participants with the ballad song With love, while Sarbel went to the Contest.
In 2019 Tamta was internally selected by the Cypriot broadcaster (CyBC) to represent Cyprus with her “Replay” behind of which was once again Alex Papaconstantinou while the whole creative team behind the Cypriot entry included some of the most successful names of the music industry, Teddy Sky, Viktor Svensson, Albin Nedler and Kristofer Fogelmark.
Tamta competed in the first semi final in Tel Aviv and qualified to the Grand final where she eventually finished 13th with 109 points, marking the country’s second best result in the last decade, after Eleni Foureira’s 2nd place in 2018.