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Greece: Kalomira puts career on ice
Kalomira Sarantis expresses great bitterness and although she still refuses to reveal the exact reasons that forced her to halt her successful singing career in Greece, she makes it clear this had nothing to do with her participation in the contest. On the contrary Eurovision was something that made her happy and proud she claims: " It was an honour for me to represent Greece in this contest." she says " I say this from the bottom of my heart as I felt the love of the people through all the nice things they said about me. I thanked them because they supported me from the first moment I said I'd do it."
Kalomira claims it was a number of things, all of major importance, that accumulated until she could not endure the situation any longer. According to her father, the main problem lay with Heaven Music, Kalomira's record label and the way they treated the artist. He feels that his daughter was purposefully mistreated by the label and by some people in particular "who treated her like dirt".
Mr Makis Pounentis, the newly appointed CEO of Heaven Music, when asked by Ciao magazine, claimed he was surprised to hear about the singer's complaints and as he has been at his post for a few months he could not offer an explanation. Heaven Music ,he says, will honour the contract with Kalomira.
Currently, the young artist is in Long Island where she helps out at her family's taverna. At the beginning of the month, she was secretly engaged to her long time boyfriend Yiorgos. As for the plans for her return, nothing has been decided yet: "I miss Greece and all the people I really love, but I need to calm down and think" she says.
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kALOMIRA was amazing in ESC08! My favourite entry! Such sweet person, not a diva character and so talented! God bless ya K-Moira!! You rule!!
Secret Combination!! #1
Please Kalomira, COME BACK.....!!!!
GREECE 2009 
I'm really sorry for her. She's a talented girl, but I must admit I didn't like her Eurovision song at all. Even though her performance was flawless, I was astonished to see this song do so well, especially compared to some really good songs in the contest. It's all a matter of taste, I'm sure, but I would have preferred to see a Greek entry do well simply because the song is good. 
just i would like to say i love kalomoira and voted for her from turkey
at sotiris avlonitis,
it's weird, but i never joined a delegation for the contest. i always watch the event with friends or alone home.
so, i know nothing of what is going on with delegations etc...-)
It's a pity. Hope she continues her carreer without her family's interference.
I tottaly understand her. Artists of Heaven have really difficulty to pass to their opinions to the bosses of the label. They don't even allowed their artists to go to shows of any other TV channel apart from Antenna TV (where is in the same group of companies with Heaven)
Poutentis is a good dj but nothing more. To work as an director of a label you need defintelly ore than this. Record music in Greece is dying.
@Alexis Mozzart,
i do nt think that she was not made for the stage, i think she is destined for the stage becuase i agree with you: she has not a good voice, "secret combination" was not a very good song, but it was she and her perofrmance on stage which made her almost win the contest and finish at last 3rd. This is a great talent for every succesful pop star: to amke out of a mediocre song and with a mediocre voice a good performance. This is what Madonna does, Kylie Minogue and some other few pop stars. I think with the right moves and the right people around her, Kalomoira would become a big pop star, because she has also another asset which only big pop stars have: she can make devoted fans..I think what she lacs are the right people around her ans obviously the right people who could pusy her career. And she doesn't seem that motivated anymore..It is a pitty
Νο one from heaven wants to meet with pounentis. he's a big m@l@k@s
I´m sorry for Kalomira that she has problems like this. Hope that she will and can solve them and go on with her career. She´s a great singer and gives all the best 100 %. Time and thinking will help.. always.
Ooh Kalomira has abandoned the music industry!! Yeah, I had heard some of this on TV but if it's out to the ESCfans then I guess it's true!! Well, it's a shame as she was a very nice girl; sweet and cute. But, honestly, nobody will miss her. She had almost no singing career, as she had no voice at all! I don't understand how she got to the third place with her horrible song. Really kitch, bad choreography and horrible clothes, as for the song, it wasn't even melodic! But we have seen worse entries reach the top in the Eurovision... at least she was better than others. I heard on tv something that her mother said: she said that "My daughter cannot live her life like a normal person or have a family if she is forced to perform every night in night clubs." For any people in here that are not familiar with it, each singer sings in a particular night club along with 2-3 other artists, several evening per week. I guess doing this did not really fit with the life that Kalomira and her family were planning for her. And this is what is probably meant by what her father said, that "some people were treating her like dirt." Anyway, too much fuss for nothing...I wish her good luck in whatever she does- it is a wise decision, I think. The stage was not for her.
Maybe she was just a bit too young and too much under protection of the parents.
She gave an interview to a magazine and apparently the problem is she isn't happy with her company..I don't know what she will do next...she has a contract for 2 more years (I think).
All the artists work hard for Eurovision, they all worked their butt off with rehearsals, promo tours and so on
What about tatu?
Oh, ok marc..well, not ok but I mean I understand what you meant now..lol
Off course for you Greeks it's different. It's sad really because she got everything going for her, all she had to do was being there. As I believe during summer, she could have earned so much money performing in Greece. Maybe she was just a bit too young and too much under protection of the parents.
sorry I meant she won't be missed as a singer...
@ Holly Golightly... exo paei kai ego se arketes eurovision me tin Kypriaki apostoli ... den xero omos an sinantithikame pote...!!!!
she won't be lost as a big singer anyway
What do you mean? That she may have a career in America or that she won't be missed? I'm confused.
If the girls prefers to be in US, let her be.... she won't be lost as a big singer anyway.
guess she wants to live in US.n this is a lil escape imo 
lol
It was my opinion and i don't care what you think. As you can see, we can't agree on everything. I will give you 1 example only: t.A.T.U but i know there are plenty of others too
What about tatu?
That wasn't a very nice thing to say. All the artists work hard for Eurovision
It was my opinion and i don't care what you think. As you can see, we can't agree on everything.
I will give you 1 example only: t.A.T.U but i know there are plenty of others too
Mina,
we finally fully agree. That is what i was trying to say all the time, but i guess you put it mre straight and plain. I agree 100% with every word of your last comment :-)
But if the diaspora voting was so strong, i think we would have the same winner and the same top10 year after year
And the same goes for neighbour voting. I don't think anyone disagrees that Russia has the most neighbours and yet they only won this once...same as Ukraine, they also only won once. And ofcourse Greece and Turkey would also be in the top 3 as well since we have both a good amount of diaspora.
Diaspora and neighbour voting can help a country if the song is good. The problem is that other countries with a similarly good song don't have that help. And with an average song, one of the countries with diaspora/neighbours will be somewhere in the middle of the scoreboard while another country will be at the bottom.
BUT I firmly believe that if a song is REALLY appealing to many viewers, it can get very high or even win.
Ofcourse that's not comforting to a country who ends up being 15th for example and knows that if they had 4-5 neighbours or a big diaspora they could be in the top 10...or to a country that doesn't make it to the final for 20-30 pts, exactly what they would get by 2-3 neighbours.
Mina - did you see the Czech performance this year
My God yes and I'm still trying to forget about it..LOL
richard m,
ur a stupid sissy.
shut ur mouth or find a proper bed partner.
thank you
cbpija,
yu have a point there and maybe you are right, but i think the voting patterns and habits of the viewers and the final outcome of the scoreboard is a very complicated process, and since it is impossible to know how many diaspora people and how many native people vote, all the discussions here seem to me pure guessing. But if the diaspora voting was so strong, i think we would have the same winner and the same top10 year after year. And this is not the case. I guess also that the voting habits of the diaspora people do not manage much than giving a benefit of some 30-50 pts more to some entries in the final and helps 3-4 countries to qualify. I do not think it is so significant in the long turn. Otherwise we would have Turkey, Greece, Bosnia Serbia and most of all Albania winning each year or finjishing top5 and that is definetely not the case. And there are still some 38 countries voting without a significant homogeneous diaspora..this topic bores me to death
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