Jessica Josephine Wendel, better known as simply Josephine, is a Greekpop singer. She is mostly known for her participation in the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Dancing Night" where she got the 4th place. Wendel has also competed in the Greek edition of the Your Face Sounds Familiar.
Early life
Wendel was born on August 22, 1990 in Athens to Margarita Venti and Alex Wendel. Her mother is Lebanese and her father is German of Greek origin. She went to American-Greek School. She has two younger siblings from her parents' next marriages. She has Cypriot blood in her. After school, she studied Marketing–Management at Deree College and at the same time she was uploading cover songs of famous artists on Facebook.
Career
2013–2014: The beginning and ''Eurovision''
While still a student, Josephine met the manager and executive of Panik Records, George Arsenakos, in an event. Arsenakos already knew about Josephine by her covers she used to upload on Facebook and he asked her to cooperate. In March 2013, Wendel released her first song "Gia mia akoma fora" in lyrics and music by herself and the rapper OGE. The song had a great success on YouTube with more than 8 million views. At the same year, three more songs got released; "Piso an gyriza to chrono" with Unique, "Radio" with Lunatic & RiskyKidd, and "Ola allazoun" with Snik. In 2014, she was nominated for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Dancing Night" in lyrics & music by DJ Mark Angelo but eventually came 4th place in the Eurosong 2014 – a MAD show, Greek national final. In July of the same year, she released the song "Dromos agapis" in collaboration with Dj Kas and OGE, and in November she collaborated with DJ Pitsi for the song "Turn Off The Lights".
2015–present: ''Your Face Sounds Familiar'' and new releases
In 2015, she starts appearing in the Apotheke nightclub with the famous Greek singer Keti Garbi, while she released two songs; "Prosehos" and "Esy ki ego". Wendel represented Greece with the song "Moonlight" in the New Wave Festival 2015, which was held in Sochi, Russia. Subsequently, in 2016, she participates as a contestant at the third season of the Your FaceSounds Familiar, while she appears for the first time in the MadWalk – The Fashion Music Project with OtherView and Maria Korinthiou, performing the song "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor. She also appeared in the MadWalk Cyprus where she performed "Love, Sex, Magic" with Konstantinos Frantzis. However, she released two more songs; "Kalokairines stigmes" with REC, and "San paramythi" with The Gatsbies. In 2017, Josephine began live appearances at BOX Athens nightclub with OtherView and Melisses. In March, she released her song with title "Cocktail". Shortly afterwards, she appeared on MadWalk – The Fashion Music Project, this time with Konnie Metaxa, where they performed their new song "Sha La La ". In November of the same year, the song "Dyo stagones nero" is released in lyrics by OtherView, with whom she also appeared at the Fantasia Live Nightclub in the winter season 2017–18. In February 2018, she started her own sports leggings collection, in collaboration with the clothing company Type Of Love. In the summer, Wendel released her new song "Magia" which got a great success. She made a live tour in Thessaloniki with Konnie Metaxa and Lefteris Pantazis. In October, she made a guest appearance in the Greek version of the fashion show, My Style Rocks. She also made live appearances in the Athinon Arenas nightclub with Nikos Oikonomopoulos, Anna Kamarinou, Anastasios Rammos and Stelios Legakis. She was starring in the music inspection "Kano Comeback" by Michalis Reppas & Thanasis Papathanassiou, along with Fotis Sergoulopoulos, Tzeni Diagoupi and Konstantinos Frantzis at the Shamone Club. On 17 January 2019, Josephine released her song "Pes mou pos", with the rapper Bo. On March 9, she released her song, entitled "Ti" and on October 24, she released her new song, "Den Exo Sima" in lyrics and music by Leonidas Sozos.
