🇬🇷 Greece Eurovision 2026: Akylas – “Ferto“
Artist: Akylas
Song: “Ferto”
Songwriters: Akylas Mytilinaios, Orpheus Nonis
Language: Greek
Akylas:
Akylas, or by his full name Akylas Mytilinaios, competed this year for the first time for a place at the Eurovision Song Contest. Akylas is a rising pop singer who, in recent years, has built a name for himself within the Greek indie scene thanks to his distinctive persona and artistic identity. He blends pop music with emotional lyricism and a queer edge. This season, Akylas was considered one of the leading favorites to win — both within Greece and internationally. Data from betting platforms, YouTube and Spotify consistently and significantly pointed to Akylas as a frontrunner to win “Sing for Greece 2026”.
Since the release of “Ferto” last month, social media has been flooded with praise for the song. Many fans have even compared both the artist and the track to Käärijä, Finland’s representative and runner-up at Eurovision 2023 with his song “Cha Cha Cha”.
“Ferto”:
“Ferto” presents a manifesto of boundless ambition and an uncompromising desire to reach the top. The lyrics portray a character driven by inner fire and an intense hunger for success, someone unwilling to settle for small progress and instead demanding everything: fame, money, power and influence. The repeated call of “bring it” reinforces the sense of constant demand for more, as though the world itself is expected to surrender to the speaker’s aspirations.
The song creates an atmosphere of strength and control, with imagery of luxury, status symbols and living large. At the same time, it touches on a deeper emotional motive. Behind the pursuit of wealth and recognition lies a desire to close past gaps, provide security for family and ensure that scarcity is never part of life again. It blends almost flamboyant self-confidence with a genuine need to prove, to himself and to the world, that he can achieve anything.
Lyrics of “Ferto”:
Prepei na paixo, den tha pao paso
Mi ambicion es fuego, nunca fracaso
No hay limite, todo lo arraso
Kynigao ta panta mechri na ta phtaso
Thelo ena stemma ki enan throno na katso
Ena block epitagon kai check se olous na grapso
Fere mou ena poto pou thelo na xedipsaso
Ferta mou ola, ola, pali de tha chortaso
Real estate, ferto
Sashimi tuna, ferto
Chryso roloi gyali designer
Sou leo ferto
Leather palto, ferto
Kai escargot, ferto
Rally cars, yacht me stars
Sou eipa, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Sou eipa, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Je veux le sommet, pas juste un pas
Rien ne me suffit, je réclame tout ça
Akomi ki ola den einai arketa
Thelo tosa polla
Pou den einai apta
Thelo doxa aioniotita kai lephta
Roucha epilegmena pou ‘nai toso akriva
Na phonazoun to onoma mou toso dynata
Kai na choreuo, choreuo oso pao psila
Diamond rings, ferto
Cuban links, ferto
Submarines, jet machines, thelo, opote ferto
Gi ki ourano, ferto
(Ferto, ferto)
(Ferto, ferto)
Ton kosmo olo, ferto
Entos ki ektos planiti, an den to cho, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Sou eipa, ferto
Thelo doxa, aioniotita kai lephta
Roucha epilegmena pou ‘nai toso akriva
Na phonazoun to onoma mou toso dynata
Na lene “ferto mas, Akyla, ferto”
Koita, mama
Osa sterithikame palia
Niotho pos tha katafero
Na prosfero mi mas leipsei kati xana
Des me, mama
Agorazo na kleiso kena
Tha sou paro kai sena polla
Spitia, amaxia kai exochika
Vevaia, an kerdhiso
Whatever, katalaveѕ, opote
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Ferto mou, ferto mou, ferto
Sou eipа, ferto
