Tags: Eurovision Song Contest Entry.
À force de prier (English: By Persistently Praying) was the Luxembourgish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 performed in French by Greek singer Nana Mouskouri. This was the first ever appearance of a Greek artist on the Eurovision stage Greece as a nation only joined the Contest in 1974.Mouskouri had had her international breakthrough with the German language single Weiße Rosen aus Athen (White Roses from Athens) in 1961 a song originally adapted from a Greek folk melody.