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'''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>
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