Cyprus participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song „Femme Fatale“ written by Nikos Evagelou and Vangelis Evangelou. The song was performed by Evdokia Kadi. The Cypriot broadcaster Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) organised the national final A Song for Europe in order to select the Cypriot entry for the 2008 contest in Belgrade, Serbia. The national final featured ten entries, resulting in the selection of Evdokia Kadi with „Femme Fatale“ at the final on 12 January 2008.

Cyprus was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 22 May 2008. Performing during the show in position 17, „Femme Fatale“ was not announced among the 10 qualifying entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Cyprus placed fifteenth out of the 19 participating countries in the semi-final with 36 points.

A Song for Europe

A Song for Europe was the national final format developed by CyBC in order to select Cyprus‘ entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The competition took place on 12 January 2008 at the CyBC Studio 3 in Nicosia, hosted by Andreas Ektoras and broadcast on RIK 1, RIK Sat, Trito Programma, London Greek Radio as well as online via the broadcaster’s website cybc.cy and the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.

Competing entries

Artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster between 29 September 2007 and 15 November 2007. All artists and songwriters were required to have Cypriot nationality, origin or residency as of 2007. At the conclusion of the deadline, 67 entries were received by CyBC. A seven-member selection committee selected 10 entries from the received submissions, which were announced on 8 December 2007. Among the competing artists was 1999 Cypriot Eurovision entrant Marlain Angelidou. Mike Connaris composed the Cypriot Eurovision entry in 2004.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Constantinos Andronikou	„Calling You“	Constantinos Andronikou
Eleni Skarpari	„Moments of Madness“	Mike Connaris
Elizabeth Anastasiou	„Sugar Mountain“	Michael Neophytou, Sotira Hadjipanagi
Evdokia Kadi	„Femme Fatale“	Nikos Evagelou, Vangelis Evangelou
Marlain Angelidou	„Rejection (Set Me Free)“	Marlain Angelidou
Mirto Meletiou	„Rescue Me“	Christodoulos Haralampides, Andreas Ikonomidi
Myria Pampori and Alexis Manison	„Turning to You“	Minas Pamporis
Nikolas Metaxas	„Butterfly“	Nikolas Metaxas
Nikolas Metaxas	„I Can’t Be“	Nikolas Metaxas
Sofia Strati	„This Can’t Be Love“	Giorgos Pellapashiotis

Final

The final took place on 12 January 2008. Ten entries competed and the winner, „Femme Fatale“ performed by Evdokia Kadi, was selected by a combination of votes from a nine-member jury panel (40%) and a public televote (60%). The jury panel consisted of the seven members of the selection committee that selected the competing entries as well as two guest jurors.[9] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show featured a guest performance by 1992, 1994 and 2007 Cypriot Eurovision entrant Evridiki and Dimitris Korgialas.

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote	Televote	Total	Place
				Votes	Points
1	Eleni Skarpari	„Moments of Madness“	16	1,644	18	34	7
2	Myria Pampori and Alexis Manison	„Turning to You“	8	2,85	48	56	4
3	Mirto Meletiou	„Rescue Me“	20	1,374	12	32	9
4	Sofia Strati	„This Can’t Be Love“	12	2,285	42	54	5
5	Evdokia Kadi	„Femme Fatale“	32	6,279	72	104	1
6	Nikolas Metaxas	„I Can’t Be“	40	3,994	60	100	2
7	Marlain Angelidou	„Rejection (Set Me Free)“	48	2,119	36	84	3
8	Nikolas Metaxas	„Butterfly“	24	2,076	30	54	6
9	Elizabeth Anastasiou	„Sugar Mountain“	4	2,048	24	28	10
10	Constantinos Andronikou	„Calling You“	28	1,342	6	34	8