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Hovig

Hovig will represent Cyprus in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Gravity. 

Hovig Demirjian is a singer songwriter of Armenian origin, born in Cyprus in 1989. At the age of 16, Hovig started performing in various clubs, getting noticed in the artistic community in Cyprus. After dropping out of Marketing Studies, Hovig enrolled in a jazz music course at the European University of Nicosia.

In 2009 Hovig participated in The X Factor Greece. In 2010 and 2015 Hovig tried to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest by competing in the national selection, reaching the final on both occasions. This year, broadcaster CyBC internally selected Hovig for the 2017 competition with the song Gravity.

Things you should know about Hovig

What are the most interesting aspects about your entry?

First of all, the song. I think Gravity is as modern and catchy as it gets. Fresh and quiet and direct to the point. Secondly, what we are preparing for our staging and thirdly the fact that anyone can relate to our song no matter who they are and where they come from.

What are the three most impressive facts about you?

My positivity as a person, the fact that I can still dream and see the bright side of everything, and how passionate I am with any project that I work on.

Do you have a (lucky) routine before you go on stage?

I warm up a lot and I try to get in a focused mindset to perform to the best of my ability.

Why is the Eurovision Song Contest important for you?

Eurovision is so important because it brings all these different countries, cultures and talents together leaving aside politics and turning our nights into big, colourful parties!

About the song writer & composer

Thomas G:son, 49, has been a full-time songwriter since 1998 and has written songs for artists such as the Jonas Brothers, Arash, Loreen, Pastora Soler, Edurne, Carola, Charlotte Perrelli, Nikki Ponte, Chanée & n'evergreen, Minus One, D'Nash and many more.

He has written more than 80 songs in different national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest including 47 in Sweden alone. To date he has had 13 songs in the Eurovision Song Contest, five of which placed in the top ten, including Loreen's massive winning hit Euphoria in 2012.

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Lyrics of Gravity

No matter where you’re going
No matter where you’ll be
Wherever the wind is blowing
Let me be your gravity

I can be your hero
I can be your fantasy, oh
I can be the cure, oh
Let me be your remedy

Right beside you
I’ll never leave you

Let me be your heart and your company
I’ll let you be the one who can lean on me
I’ll catch you when you fall, when you’re fallin’ free
Let me be, be your gravity

Let me be your wings when you’re flying high
I’m gonna raise you up ’til you touch the sky
I’ll catch you when you fall, when you’re fallin’ free
Let me be, be your gravity

Attached inseparably, like gravity

As high as the highest mountain
As low as the deepest sea or
Wherever you settle down
Just let me be you gravity

Attached inseparably
It’s all we’ll ever be
You - me - gravity
Où que vous vas
Où que vous soies
Partout où le vent souffle
Laisse-moi être ta gravité

Je peux être ton héros
Je peux être ta fantaisie, oh
Je peux être le cure, oh
Laisse-moi être ton remède

Juste à côté de toi
Je ne te quitterai jamais

Laisse-moi être ton cœur et ta compagnie
Je vais te laisser être celui qui peut s'appuyer sur moi
Je t'attraperai quand tu tomberas, quand tu descends en chute libre
Laissez-moi être, ton gravité

Laisse-moi devenir tes ailes quand tu voles haut
Je vais t’élever jusqu'à ce que tu touches le ciel
Je t'attraperai quand tu tomberas, quand tu descends en chute libre
Laisse-moi être ta gravité

On sera ensemble, comme la gravité

Aussi haut que la plus haute montagne
Aussi bas que la mer la plus profonde
Où que tu seras
Laisse-moi être ta gravité

On sera ensemble
C'est tout ce que nous serons
Toi - moi - la gravité