Ferto (song)
2026 song by Akylas
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"Ferto" (Greek: Φέρτο) is a song performed by Greek singer Akylas, written by Akylas, Orfeas Nonis, Theofilos Pouzbouris and Thomas Papathanasis, with production handled by Akylas, TEO.x3 and Papatanice. It was released on 15 February 2026 and is representing Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. The song reached number eight on the Greek Local Singles Chart.
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| Language | Greek | |||
| Released | 15 February 2026 | |||
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| Length | 3:00 | |||
| Label | Minos EMI | |||
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| ◄ "Asteromata" (2025) | ||||
Background and composition
The song has been described by Akylas as being a combination of "...Greek traditional music, Lyra, with techno modern sounds..." [1] as well as being described by TLife as an "electro-pop track".[2]
Akylas has further commented that "'Ferto' looks at the beginning like only a funny, dancy song."[1] and "...simply a happy, upbeat dance track without any deeper meaning. "[3] Akylas has then gone on to comment that, "...my friend Orfeas Noni and I wrote the song with the goal of making it a Eurovision entry... ...The song is generally about poverty and overconsumption. The fact is that in this day and age, nothing is ever enough for us. We want more, bigger, eh, more dazzling... ...And in the midst of this quest, the fact that this hero of the song isn’t satisfied with anything stems from the fact that it’s probably pent-up due to deprivation, due to childhood experiences — and I call him a hero because I want to distance myself from it, to create some distance, but in reality, it’s a story based on experience. It’s my own story because I grew up in a home, in a family that had many financial difficulties from a young age." [4][5]
The writing process for the song came about when music that Akylas had created began to receive a lot of positive responses to it and a friend said to him "...why don’t you try writing a song [for Eurovision]...". Akylas then spoke with Orfeas Noni a friend who he had previously writtten songs and lyrics with in the past and they wrote "Ferto" together.[6]
Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Sing for Greece 2026
Sing for Greece 2026 was the national final developed by ERT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026.[7] The competition consisted of three shows that took place between 11 and 15 February 2026 at the Peiraios 260 in Athens.[8][9] All shows were broadcast on ERT1, ERT World, Second Programme (with commentary by Mikaela Theofilou and Dimitris Meidanis), Voice of Greece and ERT echo, as well as online on ERT's over-the-top media service ERTFLIX.[10][11] The final was also broadcast on RIK 1 in Cyprus and on the Eurovision Song Contest's official YouTube channel.[12][13]
The competition consisted of three shows: two semi-finals on 11 and 13 February 2026 and a final on 15 February 2026. 14 songs competed in each semi-final and the top seven entries qualified to the final. The results for the semi-finals were determined exclusively by public voting, while the results in the final were determined by a combination of public and jury voting.[14] Public voting was conducted through SMS and online voting.[15]
On 4 January 2026 during the show Sing for Greece – Ethnikós Telikós Eurovision 2026 – I finalist, broadcast on ERT1, it was announced that Akylas would compete in the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, dubbed Sing for Greece 2026, with the song "Ferto".[16][17] After advancing from the first semi-final, he won in the final on 15 February 2026, thus earning the right to represent Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna, Austria.[18][19]
At Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will take place at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, and will consist of two semi-finals to be held on the respective dates of 12 and 14 May and the final on 16 May 2026.[20] During the allocation draw held on 12 January 2026, Greece was assigned to compete in the first semi-final, performing in the former half of the show.[21] After performing, "Ferto" was the first song to be revealed to be moving on to the Grand Finals on 16 May 2026, that Saturday. Greece were drawn to perform in the first half of the final.
Stage performance
The stage performance at Eurovision was directed by Fokas Evangelinos[22][23] and it begins with the title screen of a computer game being shown and Akylas jumps up to press the start button and begin the game.[24] It then shows Akylas as a video game character moving through a computer game that has a 3D animated version of Athens as its background whilst Akylas is performing the song on the stage below.[24] Akylas then moves through a mirrored tube with five sides that reflects his image in five different angles and then a figure with a similar costume to Akylas except all in black then gives him three long strings that are attached to his belt and Akylas then begins to act out playing them as though he were playing a Cretan lyra, whilst the figure lies down with his back on the stage and his arms outstretched.[24]
Towards the end of the performance he moves through a tableau of three scenes where he dances with his mother in an orange living room whilst a disco ball spins above them, he then briefly dances with an Ancient Greek statue and he then moves into a gold vault where there is a figure who is entirely covered in gold and they are wearing a gold suit with rings on their fingers that have large jewels on them and they are standing in front of a shelf with gold bullion on it that reads "FERTO".[24] Akylas then moves to the top of the stage piece that holds the three tableaus and takes off his sunglassess and begins the bridge of the song, singing in a very dramatic balllad style of singing in stark contrast to the vocals in the rest of the song and the lyrics of the bridge appear in english on the LED at the back of the stage.[24] He begins speaking to his mother and exploring ideas behind his overconsumption saying "I feel like I will manage to provide so we won't lack anything again, look at me, mum, I buy to fill the voids..." and then he soon resumes the consuming mania in the song by exclaiming "Whatever, you get it, so bring it to me,...".[24]