On the 29th November 2019, Cypriot broadcaster CyBC announced that Sandro was revealed as the artist to represent Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020.
Alesssandro Rütten was born in Germany in 1996 to a Greek mother and an American father.
Alessandro is better known as Sandro and started his music career in Germany.
In 2018 Sandro participated in Germany’s eighth season of The Voice of Germany where he made it to the sing off round.
In 2019 Sandro represented the United States in the New Wave contest. For those of you that don’t know New Wave is an international contest for young performers which started in 2002. Sandro finished in sixth place with 243 points.
On the 6th March, Sandro’s Eurovision entry “Running” was released via music video which was shown on the CyBC channel. Sandro has been heavily involved in the track as one of the songwriters and composers. Running is an electric pop song where Sandro sings “I’m tired of running away from these demons”. It’s clear to see by the lyrics that Sandro is singing about a struggle and that they need to keep running away through the difficulties they are facing but also staying strong and not falling. I’m sure his performance will tell the story.
Sandro will sing “Running” for Cyprus in the first semi final and depending on his performance we could see him qualify.
Cyprus have done well in the contest in the last few years, so if they deliver an outstanding performance like Tamta and Eleni did we could be seeing them in this years final in Rotterdam. Good Luck to Sandro and Cyprus.