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“It’s an amazing opportunity, especially for [someone] my age,” Kapsis says. “I’m never going to live this down. And it’s a huge thing for me, especially because I’ve been [singing and dancing] since I was four. It is what I was born to do and I love it.”
Though she still has a little over a month before the competition begins, the road to Eurovision for Kapsis began last December, working on the choreography of her Eurovision song Liar in Los Angeles. Her creative team then moved to Greece to begin rehearsals.
Kapsis is representing Cyprus in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.Credit: Monsee Wood
“It’s begun,” Kapsis says. “It began before the song came out. It began a long, long time ago. So I just want to be there. I just want to do it. I’m excited. I’m really excited just to go there and feel it and enjoy it and have fun and smash it.”
Kapsis has some formidable competition to face in Sweden including Australia’s entry, electronic duo Electric Fields, aka vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding and keyboard player Michael Ross, and the early favourites Bambie Thug (Ireland), Gåte (Norway), Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil (Ukraine) and Nebulossa (Spain).
Kapsis says she is buzzed to meet Malta’s Sarah Bonnici (“she’s an amazing dancer”), Luxembourg’s Tali (“she’s amazing, great voice and very dance-y”) and Austria’s Kaleen (“it’s a good song, you can hear it anywhere you go”). “Those three songs are dance-y and I love pop,” Kapsis says. “Those types of Eurovision countries always pull me in. I love watching people who move on the stage.”
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But, she adds, winning is not everything. “Of course, everyone wants to win, but it is not something that you should be focusing on,” Kapsis says. “What I am focusing on is, you’re representing a country, and you want to make them proud.
“You’ve got to work really hard, and you’ve got to try your best and whatever place you get, you get,” Kapsis adds. “But you know that you’ve tried your best on the stage, and you’re happy and your country’s proud of you. That’s the most important thing to me. But it would be lovely to get first place, or the top 10.”
SBS will air the Eurovision Song Contest on May 7, 9 and 11.