Athena Manoukian recently won the Depi Evratesil national final selection with her song Chains On You, and will represent Armenia at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam.

Here we learn a little about Athena and her music career so far.

Athena is Greek-Armenian singer. She was born in Athens. In 2008 she took part in the Greece Junior Eurovision national selection with the song To Fili Tis Aphroditis (Aphrodite’s Kiss).

In 2011 Athena had a massive hit song in Greece called Party Like A Freak and she received several nominations at the Greek Video Music Awards. Then in 2012 she had another big hit for summer entitled I Surrender.

Athena released the song XO and it received a prestigious Armenian Pulse Award. She is also a songwriter and composed a song for the 2005 Eurovision winner for Greece, Helena Paparizou, called Palia Mou Agap (My Old Love).

Athena came to the United Kingdom in 2018 and auditioned for X Factor in front of the judges Simon Cowell, Louis Tomlinson, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field. She gave a spectacular performance of Crazy In Love by Beyoncé.

The song, Chains On You, that Athena will sing for Armenia in The Netherlands in May is composed by Athena and DJ Paco.

You can see Athena sing Chains On You below as well as the music videos for I Surrender and XO and also her X Factor UK performance.

Source: ESC Covers