"Run Away"
Single by SunStroke Project and Olia Tira
Released	2010
Recorded	2009
Genre	Dance-pop Eurodance Europop
Length	2:58
Songwriter(s)	Anton Ragoza Sergey Stepanov Alina Galetskaya
SunStroke Project singles chronology
"Summer" (2009) "Run Away" (2010) "Play with Me" (2010)
Eurovision Song Contest 2010 entry
Country	Moldova
Artist(s)	SunStroke Project and Olia Tira
Language	English
Composer(s)	Anton Ragoza Sergey Stepanov
Lyricist(s)	Alina Galetskaya
Finals performance
Semi-final result	10th
Semi-final points	52
Final result	22nd
Final points	27
Entry chronology
◄ "Hora din Moldova" (2009)
"So Lucky" (2011) ►

"Run Away" is a song performed by SunStroke Project and Olia Tira, and represented Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in May 2010 in Oslo, Norway. The song won the final of the O melodie pentru Europa 2010, that took place on 6 March. It gained the maximum number of points from both the juries and the televotes.^[1][2] In the contest, it was performed first on the night of the first semi-final, preceding Russia's Lost and Forgotten and passed to the final. The inspiration for the "Epic Jazz Jive" came from observing ducks, waddling through sand, on the beach.^{[clarification needed][citation needed]}

Internet meme

After the contest, "Run Away" would also become the subject of a major internet meme surrounding the saxophone solos performed by saxophonist Sergey Stepanov who, in a phenomenon similar to Rickrolling and Trololo, was dubbed the "Epic Sax Guy" in videos on YouTube.^[3][4] Later, this song is used more as background music of video gaming (such as Hearthstone and Rainbow Six Siege) "Best moments" videos.^{[citation needed]} The rules of the contest prohibited musical instruments being played on stage, meaning Stepanov was not actually playing the saxophone at all, but rather synchronising movements with a prerecorded track.

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