Biography

Lisa Andreas

Born in Kent of a British father and Greek Cypriot mother, Lisa spent part of her early childhood in Cyprus, before returning with her parents to England. She was always an active and outgoing girl, who at the age of 11 surprised herself and everyone who heard her when she took to the stage at a local pub on Karaoke night.

Having discovered her voice, she hasn't looked back since. More Karaoke followed, which led to Lisa taking part in a competition at the Strand in Gillingham, in which she took first place. Singing became more and 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.

Battling her way through the minefield which is a music industry career Lisa has worked her way up, from performing in fields of mud, in the pouring rain, where half of the audience wore their own home grown woolly coats, bleating along to the music to working along-side such performers as Atomic Kitten and Damage at much higher profile venues. She 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, Lisa, now an angelic beauty with "powerful lungs", (as Terry Wogan would say) came from nowhere to beat the other 10 participants for the right to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. She 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 amazing vocals and a maturity beyond her years and her 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 initial heats.

She feels privileged that the people of Cyprus chose her to represent them in Eurovision 2004 and she also thanks Mike Connaris who wrote such a beautiful song.

She appeared at the Eurovision night Stockholm Pride festival in the summer of 2004, where she took the show by storm as she entered the stage singing her song 'Stronger Every Minute' silencing the Pride park as they listened to her enchanting voice. Although so young she is a confident and polished performer on stage and her aura reaches out to make a special direct contact with her audiences as usually only the most experienced artists can do. This all rounded performer has also danced at Her majesty's Theatre in London in March of 2005.

Of course, Lisa has not been able to give all of her time over to her career on stage. In addition to the excitement of the Eurovision, 2004 also demanded lots of studying behind the scenes, and in June 2004 she successfully passed all ten of her GCSEs, with good grades. In addition to now working towards her A levels, Lisa is busy developing her own material, writing and co-producing her own songs which will be ready for her forthcoming gigs starting in May 2005.

Lisa has split from her pervious management (she has not been with them since December 2004.) She is enjoying her singing career and believes that the best is yet to come.