Lisa Andreas

Lisa Andreas
Lisa Andreas during a rehearsal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul
Background information
Born	22 December 1987 (1987-12-22) (age 22)
Origin	Kent, UK
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals

Lisa Andreas (22 December 1987) is a English singer of Cypriot descent. At age 16, she represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and came fifth with her performance of "Stronger Every Minute". Andreas was the youngest singer taking part in the competition that year.

2001 - 2003

Lisa took part in a competition at the Strand in Gillingham, in which she took first place. Singing became more important to Lisa as she went on to perform at various concerts and road-shows giving her talents to support such good causes as Children with Leukaemia, and she performed in a concert at the Red Cube in London to raise funds for the New York disaster fund for the September 11th attacks. Lisa Andreas has also been a popular performer in the Pride concerts such as Leicester Pride, Manchester Europride and with an audience of more than 25,000 at the Cardiff Mardi Gras Lisa has also worked with the Kent Police by performing to her peers at Snap shows in Kentish schools.

Lisa's Cypriot heritage came to the fore in 2004 when at aged just sixteen years old on 22/12/03. Andreas won the right to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Andreas was the youngest artist taking part in the competition, and came in 5th place with the song "Stronger Every Minute" an emotional power-ballad which gave Lisa a chance to show off her vocal-skills placing in 2004 has given Cyprus the chance to participate in the finals for the 50th Eurovision Song Contest 2005, without having to take part in the semifinal.

2004 - Present

Since December 2004, Lisa has split from her previous management. In addition to all the excitement of the Eurovision she has passed all ten of her GCSEs, and is currently writing and co-producing her own songs.

Andreas appeared at the Eurovision night Stockholm Pride festival in the summer of 2004, where she stage singing her song 'Stronger Every Minute'. She furthermore danced at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in March 2005.

Last December Lisa visited Cuba to celebrate her 18th birthday on the Caribbean island

On 22 February 2006 Lisa was back in Cyprus, performing in the Cyprus finals of Eurovision 2006 for special celebrations commemorating the 25 years which Cyprus takes part in the Eurovision competition.

She successfully auditioned for the judges in the fourth series of British TV series The X Factor, being put through to the second round.

Personal Life

Andreas was born in England but christened in Cyprus. She lived in Nicosia for two years as an infant, but returned to Britain after her grandfather had health problems.

External links

• Official Site