On 17th October 2022, the Cypriot broadcaster RIK/CyBC announced that Andrew Lambrou would represent Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.
After releasing a 30 second snippet on 21 February 2023 (coincidentally on the same day Australia had released their own song), the full version Andrew’s Eurovision track, “Break A Broken Heart”, was released on the Panik Records YouTube chnanel before becoming widely available on 2 March 2023.
Andrew Lambrou is 24 year-old Sydney-based singer-songwriter with Greek-Cypriot heritage.
Lambrou started his career by posting cover song on social media. In 2015, he appeared on Season 7 of “The X factor” in Australia where he placed in the top 20. He is perhaps best known for participating in Australia Decides in 2022 with his song “Electrify”. He finished in 7th place amongst the 11 songs that were competing to be Australia’s representative at Eurovision in 2022.
Since 2021 he has released 4 singles; “Throne”, “Lemonade”, “Confidence” and his Australian Decides song “Electrify”. All have gained a number of views on YouTube and streams on Spotify.
Onto “Break a Broken Heart” which is a song composed by a mix of Danish and Swedish songwriters, namely Jimmy Jansson, Jimmy "Joker" Thornfeldt, Marcus Winther-John, and Thomas Stengaard. These guys have all had previous success writing Eurovision songs.
“Break a Broken Heart” is a heavily produced pop ballad that requires a lot of vocal skills from Andrew. The accompanying music video is an emotionally wrought affair that shows Andrew in some type of drama over giving a girl a necklace. It’s the traditional trope of strength through adversity using the metaphor of some bad jewellery.
In interviews prior to Australia Decides Andrew has demonstrated a good knowledge of Eurovision and a shown a real desire to compete. As it turns out it wasn’t Australia but Cyprus who has given him his chance. And good to see Cyprus giving the blokes a go.