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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name = Polina<br>Πωλίνα
| image = Polina.jpg
| caption = Photo of Polina Performing on Stage
| image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels -->250px
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Polina Paraskevi Misailidou
| alias = Polina (stage name)
| birth_place =[[Nea Smyrni]], [[Athens]], Greece
| birth_date =
| death_date =
| origin = [[Thessaloniki]], Greece
| instrument =
| genre = [[Pop music|Pop]], 1980s, 1990s
| occupation = Singer
| years_active = 1977–present
| label = [[Sony Music]]
| associated_acts =
| website = https://polina93.webnode.gr
| current_members =
| past_members =
}}
'''Polina Paraskevi Misailidou''' ({{lang-el|Πωλίνα Παρασκευή Μισαηλίδου}}) is a [[Greece|Greek]] singer, who is better known in her own country simply as '''Polina'''.
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Polina was born and raised in [[Nea Smyrni]], a suburb in south Athens. She started her career in 1977 singing the song "Lives" at the [[Thessaloniki Song Festival]]. In 1979, Polina appeared at the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] as a backup singer to [[Elpida (singer)|Elpida]] as she performed the entry "[[Sokrati]]".
 
However, that would bewas her only time going toat Eurovision. She was picked in the 1986 national selection to represent Greece at [[Eurovision Song Contest 1986]] in [[Bergen]], [[Norway]], but [[Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi]], Greece's national broadcaster, pulled out of the Contestcontest unexpectedly. Polina stated that it was due to political troubles in Greece at the time,<ref name="wagonlit1">{{cite web|url=https://polina93.webnode.gr/viografia|title=Polina Biography|language=el|access-date=2008-08-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907144902/http://www.polina.biz/index1.htm|archive-date=7 September 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> but she noted that a Eurovision website had learned that the real reason was that the Contestcontest was to be held the night before [[Easter#Date|Orthodox Easter]].<ref name="wagonlit1"/> Had she performed, she would have appeared eighteenth and she would have performed the song "Wagon-lit".<ref name="wagonlit1"/><ref name="wagonlit2">{{cite web|publisher=[[Sony Music]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zJtoeKxD9Q |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/2zJtoeKxD9Q |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title="Wagon-lit" single – 1986|access-date=2008-08-24}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
 
She is best known for theher string of chart successes she had in Greece in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including "Birimpa", "Pink bikini", "Push-UpsBikini", "Let's Go to the Seychelles", "Wagon Lit", "Contrares", "awesomeRadio, My love","Rumours andwas released"Radio, My"Push-Ups", love"Awesome" and "Ιいおたn Thessaloniki". She has also collaborated with several well-known composers, like Stamatis Kraounakis, Harry Chalkitis, Costas Haritodiplomenos, Nikos Karvelas, Yannis Karalis, Kostas Bigalis, Yiannis Miliokas, Thanos Kalliris, Kostas Tournas, Phoebus and others, particularly [[Stamatis Kraounakis]], with whom she has had a working relationshipworked since the release of her ''Birimpa'' album in 1986.
 
==See also==
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[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Greece]]
[[Category:21st-century Greek femalewomen singers]]
[[Category:Greek pop singers]]
[[Category:Modern20th-century Greek-language women singers]]
[[Category:Singers from Athens]]
[[Category:Thessaloniki Song Festival entrants]]