Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984

Cyprus was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the song "Anna Mari-Elena", written and performed by Andy Paul. The Cypriot participating broadcaster, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), selected its entry through a national final.

Before Eurovision

National final

Competing entries

The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) opened a submission period for Cypriot artists and composers to submit songs until 28 January 1984. Forty submissions were received, of which three were revealed to be invalid during the initial presentation of the songs. Two of the invalid submissions were theatrical works, and the other had plagiarised lyrics.

Format

The national final was held on 26 February 1984 at the Filoxenia Hotel in Nicosia and was hosted by Pavlos Pavlou. The results were decided by a 154-member jury consisting of 46 professionals from the press and other organisations, and 108 members of the public. Members of the public who wished to participate in the jury had to be Cypriot nationals over the age of 16, and had between 12 February and 16 February 1984 to apply. Over a thousand people applied to become a jury member and the 108 jury members were drawn at random on 20 February 1984 at the CyBC buildings.

The competition was done in four stages and lasted the entire day, from around 10:00 EET until 22:00 EET. In the first stage, the submitted recordings of all forty songs were presented twice and each jury member chose their ten favourite songs, after which the votes were collected and the ten songs with the highest number of votes progressed to the second stage.