Antique  (Sweden) EuroTrance group Added : 14/01/2002 Viewed 4193 times                                             98 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Antique albums

	Opa Opa	13th Oct 1999
	Mera Meti Mera	May 2001
	Die For You	19th Jun 2001
	Me Logia Ellinika	Nov 2001
	Alli Mia Fora	Dec 2002
	Blue Love	Jun 2003
	Collector's Edition (Alli mia fora) 3 CDs	Dec 2003
	The Very Best Of 2 CDs	2004

Antique singles

	Opa-Opa	5th Jul 1999
	Dinata Dinata	11th Nov 1999	LISTEN
	Mera Meti Mera	25th Feb 2000	LISTEN
	Antique Ep	18th Oct 2000
	Why (Video only)	2001	LISTEN
	(I Would) Die For You	14th May 2001
	Ligo Ligo	27th Aug 2001
	Follow Me	2002
	Kainourgia Agapi (Video only)	2002
	Antique Dance	Jul 2002
	Moro Mou	2003	LISTEN
	Time To Say Goodbye	2003	LISTEN
	Alla Mia Fora	2003
	Matia Mou (Promo only)	2004	LISTEN

Antique remixes

Ligo Ligo

2001

Antique biography

This pop-dance oriented project was produced in Sweden. The group included 19 years old Elena (or Helena) Paparizou and 23 years old Nikos Panagiotidis. Both were born in Sweden after their parents immigrated to this nordic country. Their music is very dancable and combines Scandinavian beat with Greek touch. The producer team and the dancemusic creators, C&N Project, were earlier season working DJ's in the Greek Islands. Wild disco nights at Rhodes and Kos have created curiosity about the Greek culture and an interest of creating the unique Greek sound.

Elena grew up in Sweden. Her artistic talents and eagerness to excel became apparent from an early age, and she began her training in singing, dancing and acting while she was still at school.

As a matter of fact Antique managed to reach top 5 on the Swedish Sales Chart with a Greek song ! Not only that, they were also nominated in the category "Modern Dance" for a Swedish Grammy Award. Their first single Opa-Opa was top 10 in the whole of Scandinavia this summer and one could hear the song everywhere. All of a sudden everybody knew about Antique ! Second single Dinata Dinata was top 10 for 5 weeks on the Swedish Sales Chart. Both singles had reached Gold status and Opa-Opa had also reached Platinum.

With their song I Would Die For You they entered this year Eurovision Song Contest on March 6th representing... Greece and reached the 3rd place. The song was written by two well-known greek song writers, Antonios Tapas and Nikos Terzis. This led to a successful career which has included several platinum albums, a European tour, and collaborations with many highly successful artists from Greece and abroad.

They released their second album Die For You which contains light, easy to listen and want-to-dance music. The title song used such an instrument named bouzouki. This song is presented in 2 versions : English and Swedish. Simlar pop tune but with much more pronounced euro backbone is Follow Me. This is probably the song in which you can fully appreciate beatiful and strong voice of Elena. Ligo Ligo sang in Greek will give you a clear example of the sound of Greece. Very melodic tune, again with some very unique instrumentation. For true euro sound you should check Tell Me, Lonely Nights or Something About You. The album contains also some slower tunes but in overall this is nice dance offering.

Despite Antique's great success, the group's journey came to an end in 2003. Making one of her most difficult decisions ever, Helena decided to pursue a solo musical career. This brought her into contact with Sony Music with whom she signed her first contract as a solo artist.

In December 2003, Helena Paparizou released her first solo single, Anapandeetes Klisis ('Missed Calls'), a song that was written especially for her by famous singer-songwriter, Christos Dantis. Naturally, Anapandeetes Klisis became a major hit and remained at the top of the airplay charts as well as the sales charts for a very long time, reaching gold status.

During the winter of 2003-2004, Helena appeared alongside one of Greece's biggest male singing stars, Antonis Remos, at Studio Pireos night club. In spring 2004, Helena released her first solo album Protereotita ('Priorities') from which Antithesis, Anamnisis, Katse Kala, Stin Kardia Mou Mono Thlipsi became major hits. Her success brought her to Fever Music night club where she performed the winter season 2004-2005 alongside Sakis Rouvas and Giorgos Mazonakis.

2005 : Elena competed for Greece at the Eurovision contest with her song My Number One and won.

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The biography was last updated Mon, June 15th 2009

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Latest Antique news

22/05/2005 : Elena, former vocalist of the project Antique, won the Eurovision contest for Greece.

20/08/2001 : Antique's new single is called Ligo Ligo.

Charts (singles)

Opa-Opa		#9	#5	#51
Dinata Dinata		#19	#8
Mera Meti Mera			#45
(I Would) Die For You	#15	#9	#3	#75
Ligo Ligo			#48
Follow Me			#15
Time To Say Goodbye			#13