Polina (Greek singer): Difference between revisions

| birth_place =[[Nea Smyrni]], [[Greece]]

| origin = [[Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]

| genre = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[1980s#Music|1980s]]

| occupation = [[Singer]]

| years_active = 1977–present1977–present

'''Polina Paraskevi Misailidou''' ({{lang-el|Πωλίνα Παρασκευή Μισαηλίδου}}) is a [[Greece|Greek]] [[singer]], who is better known in her own country simply as '''Polina'''.

Polina was born and raised in [[Nea Smyrni]], a suburb south of [[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 her only time going to 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 unexpectedly. Polina stated that it was due to political troubles in Greece at the time,<ref name="wagonlit1">{{cite web|url=http://www.polina.biz/index1.htm |title=Polina Biography|language=Greek|accessdate=2008-08-24}}</ref> but she noted that a Eurovision website had learned that the real reason was that the 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=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zJtoeKxD9Q |title="Wagon-lit" single -– 1986|accessdate=2008-08-24}}</ref>