8. Greece

Song: I Don't Wanna Dance
Artist: Nikki Ponte
Music & Lyrics: Jonas Saeed & Pia Sjöberg

'I Don’t Wanna Dance' is a dynamic and rhythmic song, it was also one of the five candidate songs for the representation of Greece to the Eurovision Song Contest in Germany, in May 2011.

Nikki was born in 1991 in Toronto. She comes from a Greek family that lived in Northern America. Although she loved Greek music she only became known to the Greek audience when she decided to participate to the Greek talent show called X factor. The judges found her at the auditions in New York and were surprised with her talent and her looks. One of her greatest desires and dreams was to come to Greece and this TV show made it happen. She has been taking opera lessons for 10 years and now she is a student at an American music university.