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Run Away (SunStroke Project and Olia Tira song)

"Run Away"
Olia Tira Sunstroke Project.jpg
Single by SunStroke Project and Olia Tira
Released 2010
Format Digital single, CD single
Recorded 2010
Genre
Length 2:58
Songwriter(s)
SunStroke Project singles chronology
"Summer"
(2009)
"Run Away"
(2010)
"Play with Me"
(2010)
"Summer"
(2009)
"Run Away"
(2010)
"Play with Me"
(2010)
Moldova "Run Away"
Eurovision Song Contest 2010 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Language
Composer(s)
Anton Ragoza, Sergey Stepanov
Lyricist(s)
Alina Galetskaya
Finals performance
Semi-final result
10th
Semi-final points
52
Final result
22nd
Final points
27
Appearance chronology
◄ "Hora din Moldova" (2009)   
"So Lucky" (2011) ►
Moldova "Run Away"
Eurovision Song Contest 2010 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Language
Composer(s)
Anton Ragoza, Sergey Stepanov
Lyricist(s)
Alina Galetskaya
Finals performance
Semi-final result
10th
Semi-final points
52
Final result
22nd
Final points
27
Appearance chronology
◄ "Hora din Moldova" (2009)   
"So Lucky" (2011) ►

"Run Away" is a song performed by SunStroke Project and Olia Tira, and represented Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in May 2010 in Oslo, Norway. The song won the final of the O melodie pentru Europa 2010, that took place on 6 March. It gained the maximum number of points from both the juries and the televotes.

In the contest, it was performed first on the night of the first semi-final, preceding Russia's Lost and Forgotten and passed to the final. The inspiration for the "Epic Jazz Jive" came from observing ducks, waddling through sand, on the beach.

After the contest, "Run Away" would also become the subject of a major internet meme surrounding the saxophone solos performed by saxophonist Sergey Stepanov who, in a phenomenon similar to Rickrolling and Trololo, was dubbed the "Epic Sax Guy" in videos on YouTube. The rules of the contest prohibited musical instruments being played on stage, meaning Stepanov was not actually playing the saxophone at all, but rather synchronising movements with a prerecorded track.


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