Paparizou (Helena)   (Sweden)

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Latest Helena Paparizou news

13/11/2024 : Helena Paparizou's next single will be entitled Update and it will be out on Novembre 18th

21/04/2024 : Discover the videoclip for Helena Paparizou's new single Mávra Gyaliá, produced by by Sin Laurent & Beyond. It was directed by Yiannis Papadakos

09/04/2024 : Helena Paparizou's next single will be entitled Mávra Gyaliá and it is planned for April 19th

26/07/2023 : Tomorrow, the video for Helena Paparizou's current single De Mou Ta Leei Kala will premiere

13/06/2023 : Helena Paparizou's next single will be a Greek song entitled De Mou Ta Leei Kala

28/12/2022 : The official video for Helena Paparizou's current sinlge will premiere tomorrow at 15:00. It was directed by Vangélis Tsaousópoulos

02/12/2022 : Helena Paparizou's new single Fevgo will be released next Friday 9th

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Helena Paparizou albums

	Proteraiotita	Apr 2004	BUY X
	My Number One	2005	BUY X
	Proteraiotita Second edition	2005	BUY X
	Proteraiotita Third edition	2005	BUY X
	Iparhi Logos 2 CDs	2006	BUY X
	The Game of Love	25th Oct 2006	BUY X
	Vrisko To Logo Na Zo	May 2008	BUY X
	Giro Apo T'Oneiro	29th Mar 2010	BUY X
	Greatest Hits & More 3 CDs	23rd May 2011	BUY X
	The Love Collection	1st Feb 2013	BUY X
	Ti Ora Tha Vgoume	3rd Jun 2013	BUY X
	One Life	26th Mar 2014	BUY X
	Summer Extended 2017	27th Jun 2017	BUY X
	Ouranio Toxo	15th Dec 2017	BUY X
	Apohrosis	29th Jan 2021	BUY X

Helena Paparizou DVDs and VHS

	Number One	Apr 2005	DVD
	Mad Secret Concerts	Jul 2006	DVD

Helena Paparizou singles

	Anapantites Kliseis	Dec 2003	BUY X
	Treli Kardia Video only	Feb 2004	BUY X
	Antithesis	Jul 2004	BUY X
	Katse Kala	Nov 2004	BUY X
	Stin Kardia Mou Mono Thlipsi Video only	Feb 2005	BUY X
	My Number One	31st May 2005	BUY X
	The Light In Our Soul	Jul 2005	BUY X
	A Brighter Day	Sep 2005	BUY X
	Mambo	Nov 2005	BUY X
	Iparhi Logos	Apr 2006	BUY X
	Heroes	7th Aug 2006	BUY X
	Gigolo	15th Nov 2006	BUY X
	An Ihes Erthi Pio Noris	Dec 2006	BUY X
	Min Fevgis	Apr 2007	BUY X
	Phos	May 2007	BUY X
	Mazi Sou	May 2007	BUY X
	To Fili Tis Zois	Sep 2007	BUY X
	Pirotehnimata	2008	BUY X
	Porta Gia Ton Ourano Radio release	8th Apr 2008	BUY X
	I Kardia Sou Petra Radio release	21st Jul 2008	BUY X
	Eisai I Foni	25th Feb 2009	BUY X
	Tha 'Mai Allios	May 2009	BUY X
	An Isoun Agapi	28th Feb 2010	BUY X
	Psahno Tin Alitheia	May 2010	BUY X
	Girna Me Sto Htes	1st Nov 2010	BUY X
	Baby It's Over	18th Feb 2011	BUY X
	Mr Perfect	Nov 2011	BUY X
	Popular	11th Mar 2012	BUY X
	Pios	6th Jul 2012	BUY X
	Poso M'Aresei	19th Mar 2013	BUY X
	Ena Lepto	15th Apr 2013	BUY X
	Save Me (This Is An SOS)	29th May 2013	BUY X
	De Thelo Allon Iroa Video only	Dec 2013	BUY X
	Survivor	23rd Feb 2014	BUY X
	Don't Hold Back On Love	1st May 2014	BUY X
	Otan Aggeloi Klaine	23rd Feb 2015	BUY X
	Angel	30th Apr 2015	BUY X
	Misi Kardia	15th Feb 2016	BUY X
	Fiesta	4th Jul 2016	BUY X
	You Are The Only One (with Sergey Lazarev)	5th Aug 2016	BUY X
	Zoi Mou	23rd Sep 2016	BUY X
	Agkaliase Me	9th Dec 2016	BUY X
	Haide	1st May 2017	BUY X
	Colour Your Dream	12th May 2017	BUY X
	Etsi Ki Etsi Video only	14th Dec 2017	BUY X
	Totally Erased	4th May 2018	BUY X
	Kati Skoteino	6th Oct 2018	BUY X
	Hristougenna Xana	3rd Dec 2018	BUY X
	Askopa Xenihtia	26th Mar 2019	BUY X
	Kalokairi Kai Pathos	10th Jun 2019	BUY X
	Etsi Ine I Fasi (with Sakis Rouvas)	24th Feb 2020	BUY X
	Se Xéno Sóma	18th Sep 2020	BUY X
	Deja Vu (with Marseaux)	18th Dec 2020	BUY X
	Lightning (with Levianth)	22nd Nov 2021	BUY X
	Fevgo	9th Dec 2022	BUY X
	De Mou Ta Leei Kala	23rd Jun 2023	BUY X
	Mávra Gyaliá	19th Apr 2024	BUY X
	Party All The Time EP	5th Jul 2024	BUY X
	Update	18th Nov 2024	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Antique - Opa-Opa	5th Jul 1999	BUY X
	Antique - Opa Opa (album)	13th Oct 1999	BUY X
	Antique - Dinata Dinata	11th Nov 1999	BUY X
	Antique - Mera Meti Mera	25th Feb 2000	BUY X
	Antique - Antique Ep	18th Oct 2000	BUY X
	Antique - Mera Meti Mera (album)	May 2001	BUY X
	Antique - (I Would) Die For You	14th May 2001	BUY X
	Antique - Die For You (album)	19th Jun 2001	BUY X
	Antique - Ligo Ligo	27th Aug 2001	BUY X
	Antique - Follow Me	2002	BUY X
	Antique - Alli Mia Fora (album)	Dec 2002	BUY X
	Antique - Moro Mou	2003	BUY X
	Antique - Blue Love (album)	Jun 2003	BUY X
	Playmen - All The Time	2nd Jul 2012	BUY X
	Natasa Theodoridou - Lathos Agapes	19th Oct 2012	BUY X
	House Twins - Love Till It's Over	16th Feb 2015	BUY X
	Serhat - Total Disguise	22nd Jun 2018	BUY X
	Magnus Carlsson - Day And Night	4th Jun 2021	BUY X
	Joanne - Twist In My Sobriety	28th Jun 2021	BUY X

Helena Paparizou biography

Helena Paparizou was born 31 January 1982 in Borås, and raised in Gothenburg (Sweden) from Greek parents coming from Volos and Karditsa. Her talents revolved around singing, dancing and acting. She began her studies of these arts even while she was still in school.

Her name has always been spelt 'Elena' during her career, but in Sweden, and in various other countries as her second appearance in Eurovision (in 2005) approached, the latinised spelling 'Helena' grew more common, and the songstress herself admitted in a Swedish interview that she was forced by her record company to spell her name with a 'h'. The singer, however, has made it known that her name is written as 'Elena' and this is how she prefers to be known.

In 1999 she created the group Antique with her childhood friend, Niko at the age of 17. Almost immediately, Antique signed their first record label contract with the then newly founded record label Bonnier in Sweden. Their debut single Opa Opa became a huge hit, reaching number one on the single charts and gaining a gold status. Following their success with Opa Opa came their debut album while later in 2001 came their first major turning point in their career with their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Their song I Would Die For You conquered third place. Antique's major success in the Eurovision contest led to a promising future and a successful career which included many platinum albums, a European tour, and collaborations with many highly successful and credible artists from Greece and abroad. Despite the group's major success, their journey as Antique came to an end in 2003. Making one of the most difficult decisions Helena ever had to make, she decided to pursue her passion and her musical journey alone.

She has admitted that Greek music had been something of an acquired taste for her, saying that the name Antique was probably a reflection of her childhood impression of it being something rather distant and old-fashioned, that she only really associated with her summer holidays in Greece.

She signed her first contract as a solo artist at Sony Music and in December 2003, she released her first solo single, Anapandeetes Klisis (Missed Calls), a song that was written especially for her by the singer and songwriter Christos Dantis. Quite naturally, Anapandeetes Klisis became a major hit and remained on the top of airplay charts as well as the sales charts for a very long time, reaching a gold status.

During the winter season 2003-2004, Helena appeared beside one of Greece's biggest male singer, Antonis Remos at Studio Pireos music night club.

In spring 2004, Helena released her first personal album Protereotita (Priorities) from which Antithesis, Anamnisis, Katse Kala, Stin Kardia Mou Mono Thlipsi became major hits. Her major success brought her to Fever music night club for the winter season 2004-2005 along the sides of Sakis Rouvas and Giorgos Mazonakis. In the summer and fall of 2005 she toured in Australia and North America with Greek artist Nikos Kourkoulis.

On the 21st of May 2005, Helena Paparizou represented Greece for the second time at the Eurovision song contest in Kiev, Ukraine and won the first place with My Number One. It was the first time in the contest's history that Greece had won.

In August Helena Paparizou performed the first part of Anastacia's concert in Malme (Sweden).

Elena is currently the official ambassador for the Greek Ministry of Tourism. She speaks fluent Greek, Swedish and English (and has also studied French), and has mentioned that her dream would be to make a song whose lyrics were made up of words in every language in the world.

2006 : the CD single Mambo was certified platinum while the album Protereotita ( Euro edition + Mambo ) was certified double platinum ! In March, Helena was at the studio recording her new album which should be released in April. Then, will go abroad to record the English version of her album, which will be released in September 2006.

On July 29, 2006, Star Channel reported that Elena gave a concert in Helsinki where 2006 Eurovision winner Lordi attended. At the concert, Elena sang Lordi's song Hard Rock Hallelujah. Lordi supposedly met with Elena backstage and proposed to do a big concert together in the winter season. Elena was reportedly thrilled at the idea. Star Channel also said that Elena might be pregnant, a rumor that has been circulating, but Elena denies that.

During the first week of August 2006, her new international single Heroes reached #1 in the Swedish Singles Hitlistan Charts. It was the official song for the 2006 European Championships in Athletics held in Gothenburg. Her new greek album Iparhi Logos reached #2 in the Greek Albums IFPI Charts.

Elena's solo debut international album The Game of Love, was released all over Europe, Australia, Japan, and Canada on 25th October 2006. It will gradualy be released world-wide shortly after. It contained six songs from her Greek album Yparhei Logos with English lyrics

After a fashion show gala in which Helena Paparizou posed as model, Elena made statements regarding the current and future Eurovision Song Contest plans. Helena Paparizou said that she did received a proposal for 2007 Melodifestivalen and that she denied the proposal. "I have received many things from Sweden, I also got twice 12 points from this country in the contest. The least I could do this time was to think about it since everyone on SVT is a friend of mine... I could do a lot and I wanna do a lot for Sweden in Eurovision. This doesn't mean I have to be the performer. I can give the votes as a spokeperson, I can host Melodifestivalen and many many things... I cannot though really exclude a future participation in the contest for Sweden", she said.

Gigolo is be the second single released in Greece from the album after Mambo!. Elena also recorded a song called Phos for the soundtrack of the Greek Barbie movie. Her new international single after Heroes will be Teardrops.

Helena will be one of the ten new artists who will receive the European Border Breakers Award. These awards have been created by European Union four years ago and they are given every year to ten artists who managed to make success with their first album abroad. Helena wins this award for the success of her first international album My Number One. The award will take place in Cannes on 21th January 2007 during the Midem Festival and it will be televised by MTV Europe.

2007 : Elena recorded a theme song for a new Greek TV show called Mazi Sou. The song did well in the Greek radio charts.

Elena Paparizou recorded a cover of the French song Le Temps Des Fleurs (originally sung by Dalida). It will be included, along with 2 other songs sung in French, on the French release of her album, The Game of Love planned for August. It was was also featured on the bonus CD of her Yparhi Logos: Platinum Edition album. And it was released in May 2007 on a CD single, Fos along with four other songs.

Elena was nominated for the MAD Greek Video awards in 5 categories : Best Pop Video Clip (Gigolo), Best Female Video Clip (Gigolo), Best Video Clip of the year (Gigolo), Best Artist of the year and Best Clothes in Video Clip (An eixes erthi pio noris). She won twice : Best Female Video Clip and Best Clothes in Video Clip.

In August, Elena will release a maxi CD single with remixes of Mambo! in the USA under the label Moda Records.

Elena recorded a duet with the moderator Nikos Aliagas, very famous in France for presenting the real-TV program Star Academy.

Elena has been involved in a long term relationship with fellow Swedish-born songwriter Greek Tony Mavridis, whom she met at a Greek restaurant in Sweden when she was only 19. Greek media already suggested many times that Elena was pregnant and about to get married, but it has all turned out false so far.

In October she performed in the French TV show Vivement Dimanche.

2008 : in January, along with Sony BMG Greece, she teamed up with retailer Plaisio and released a special edition MP4 player called MP4 Total Helena. Featured on the player, a special "Best of" collection of 12 songs and 5 video clips only available with the purchase of the MP4 player.

Her new Greek album Vrisko To Logo Na Zo was released in April, but it did not contain any dance song. It was awarded Platinum in June. At the MAD video awards, she was awarded for best pop video clip (for To Fili Tis Zois) and elected Artist of the year

She worked with Bloodshy & Avant (a music production and songwriting team from Sweden) on two songs of her forthcoming international album, which should be released at the end of 2008. On December 25, her father died suddenly of a heart attack

2009 : Elena planned to release her fifth studio album in early 2010. She was nominated by the Greek MTV Europe Music Award for Best Greek Act but did not win.

2010 : In March, her new single An Isoun Agapi (meaning : If Your Were Love) was out. The song was an uptempo ballad. At first, another single was planned for released : Girna Me Sto Htes should have been premiered on the Greek X-factor final... but was cancelled. Her new album Giro Apo T'Oneiro was released in March 15th, it was a double album including live covers from her second MAD Secret Concert. She then went on a big Greek summer tour called Fizika Mazi. In November, Elena released her new single Girna Me Sto Htes. She will perform till Easter 2011 every Friday and Saturday with Antonis Remos at Diogenis Studio (a live music hall in Athens).

2011 : there were rumours about Elena Paparizou having a collaboration duet with singer Tamta. In February she presented her new single on the event MadWalk by Vodafone. Called Baby It's Over, it's a dance song in English. A European promo tour will follow. It will be on her upcoming Greatest Hits album which will be (according to rumors) released end of March across Europe in 2 editions (a Greek and an international edition).

In October, Helena Paparizou was featured on Nana Mouskouri's new album. She sung a duet in a cover of a traditional song from the Greek islands : Dari Dari.

Thanks to Mikoo and Tavi
Helena Paparizou official website
Oikotimes
Elenada - Beauteous Helen's Kingdom by KyprisAthina

Helena Paparizou biography was last updated Wed, January 6th 2021

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Mambo	#1
Heroes		#1

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