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Revision as of 23:06, 3 October 2021 edit WikiCleanerBot (talk \| contribs) Bots 894,190 edits m v2.04b - Bot T5 CW#16 - Fix errors for CW project (Unicode control characters) Tag: WPCleaner ← Previous edit		Latest revision as of 15:23, 31 January 2024 edit undo Rich Farmbrough (talk \| contribs) Edit filter managers, Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, File movers, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers, Template editors 1,721,394 edits /* {{short description\|Greek singer}}{{Use dmy dates\|date={{Subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{Subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}{{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...
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Line 1: {{short description\|Greek singer}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=~~April~~January ~~2013~~2024}} {{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'''. Line 27: 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 be~~was her only time ~~going to~~at 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 ~~Contest~~contest 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 ~~Contest~~contest 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 ~~the~~her string of chart successes ~~she had~~ in Greece in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including "Birimpa", "Pink Bikini", "Let's Go to the Seychelles", "Wagon Lit", "Contrares", "Radio, My love","Rumours was released", "Push-Ups", "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 relationship~~worked since the release of her ''Birimpa'' album in 1986. ==See also==