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Lefteris Kintatos


The first season of the talent show The Voice of Greece began broadcasting on January 10, 2014. The coaches were Michalis Kouinelis, Despina Vandi, Antonis Remos and Melina Aslanidou. Each coach chose their finalists for the live shows through the blind auditions and the battles. During the blind auditions, the coaches selected their 16 artists while in the battles half of the artists were eliminating leaving a number of 8 acts for each coach. The show was won by Maria Elena Kiriakou, mentored by Despina Vandi, who took the record deal with Universal Music Greece, with Areti Kosmidou and Lefteris Kintatos becoming the joint runners-up (mentored by Michalis Kouinelis and Antonis Remos respectively). Emily Charalambous, mentored by Melina Aslanidou, took the fourth place.

Kosmidou, originating from Alexandroupoli, auditioned for The Voice of Greece at the age of sixteen. Appearing on the eighth of the eight blind auditions, she auditioned with "Let Her Go", originally by Passenger—with two coaches: Michalis Kouinelis and Despina Vandi electing for her to join their teams; from which Kosmidou selected Michalis Kouinelis. During the battles, Kosmidou sung "I Was Made for Lovin' You" against Christina Miliou–with Michalis crowning her as the winner. In the second live show, she performed "Big in Japan" and was saved by the public. In the third live show, she performed "Little Talks" and was saved by the public along with Uri Melikov. In the fourth live show, she performed "Royals" and was for the first time in the bottom two along with Panayiotis Vintzilaios–with Michalis selecting her to proceed to the semi-final. In the semi-final, she performed "This Is the Life" for her solo performance and "Poison" for her duet with the band Melisses. Kosmidou proceeded to the final after getting 53 points from her coach and 57 points from the public. Her song "So Cruel" was available on iTunes the day after the semi-final, on May 3, 2014. In the final she performed her original song "So Cruel" and a duet with her coach with the song "Prin Se Gnoriso". As she advanced to the second round along with Kiriakou and Kintatos, she performed "Let Her Go", the song she performed during the blind auditions. Kosmidou finished as joint runner-up with Kintatos.


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