Well, it started off as a bit of a pipe dream, but Maria Mercedes is currently one of the most popular acts to be considered by the Australian Eurovision selection committee.

While many have been tipping Kylie Minogue or Delta Goodrem as the most likely acts, the internet has other ideas.

The organisers of the Australian act selection, SBS and Blink.tv, were so inundated with requests to pick Maria Mercedes as the Australian representative that it crashed their servers.

Hundreds of comments flooded in, especially on the Popsugar site that had posted a news article entitled ‘Who Do You Think Will Perform at Eurovision?’.

The poll had 10 artists listed, with the option of picking none and nominating an act in the comments section.

In just a couple of hours, more than 50 comments appeared, all nominating Maria Mercedes.

The popularity spread even further, with someone creating a special Facebook page entitled ‘Maria Mercedes to sing for Australia at Eurovision’. It has more than 350 likes.

The whole experience has been overwhelming, Maria Mercedes admits.

“I just posted it on Facebook, and it went haywire, people just went ballistic,” she tells Neos Kosmos.

An avid Eurovision fan herself, Mercedes dreamed of one day representing her country in the song competition, but knew her chances were slim considering Australia’s location.

“Being Australian by birth, unless I went over to Greece and tried to represent Greece, it was going to be difficult,” she says.

If she does make it and gets selected, she says she’s already well prepared.

“I’ve got a song already up my sleeve,” she admits.

“It’s a song called Kouraio (Courage), which is basically my take on the whole migration thing and how it feels to embody two identities.”

She hopes the song will be a truly multicultural representation of Australia.

“It’s not just representing myself, I’m representing the journey of all our parents and I’m representing what can be achieved by sacrifice,” she says.

The final date for artists to submit their application expired on Friday. SBS and Blink.tv will announce the Australian act shortly.

In the meantime, Maria Mercedes is working on reprising her role as Maria Callas in the play Masterclass, touring NSW and Melbourne soon.