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Biography

The band was formed in May 2008 and their first hit single was “Krifa”. They participated on the Greek final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 performing the song “Kinezos” and, though they didn’t win, the song became their second single and was a hit. After that came the release of their debut album, “Mistiko”.
From the very first moment of their career, MELISSES have had great success and won music awards in Greece and Cyprus, even reaching European MTV as they were nominated for Best Greek Act in 2010.
All of their singles have become big hits and topped the radio charts, with 10 of them being in the top10, two staying at no1 for 35 weeks and another four for more than 16 weeks, while their YouTube videos have more than 250,000,000 views. In 2019, they released the hit “Misi Kardia”, which was no1 on the Greek airplay chart for 12 weeks. The music video of the song was created with the contribution of the public due to the pandemic of coronavirus and, instead of a fee, the group made a donation of € 5,000 to the account for the treatment of the disease. In the summer of 2020 they released “Viktoria”, an urban single in collaboration with the successful DJ and rapper Kas, which immediately became no1 on YouTube trends.
They have collaborated with more than 20 artists from all kinds of music, while they have made over 1,000 sold-out lives.
The band’s frontman, Christos Mastoras, has also presented solo tracks, which have been a huge success. Among them are “Den Eho Idea” and the collaboration with Dimitris Mpasis titled “Ena Lepto” which were no1 of the radio airplay chart for about four months and count tens of millions of YouTube views. He also did a duet with the internationally renowned Rita Wilson, an idea of Panik Records, which brought the two artists in contact and released the song “Let Me Be”, which was presented for the first time to the public live, at a concert at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation . He has also been a judge on the musical talent shows “Rising Star” (2016) and “The X Factor” (2019).