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Meet Pastora Soler Backing Vocalists

Sheila Blanco(soprano), Mey Green(Soprano), Rebeca Rods (Mezzosoprano), Antonio Tomás Sepúlveda (Tenor) y Miguel Antelo (Tenor) will back singing Pastora Soler in Bakú.

For the first time ever the Spanish entry will be backed by Bel-Canto artists instead of melodic backing singers. Five excellent voices to embrace Pastora Soler, up to now a unique decission by TVE which keeps on contributing wih top class artists this year in Eurovision.

Francis Viñolo will take care of the scenography and eventual dance/moving routines for Quédate Conmigo performance; he has been on charge of Pastora’s shows, music-videos and dance routines during the last 10 years as well as had wide experience with other famous Spanish artists.

Pastora Soler to sing three songs in the National Final

In a recent interview to the newspaper “elcomercio.es”, Pastora Soler provided some hints about her coming contribution in the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Bakú. The artist and her team are currently evaluating songs from her last album “Una Mujer como yo” (a woman like me) to be adapted to Eurovision but they also requested songs from prestigious Spanish composers like David de María, Manuel Carrasco, Pablo Alborán or David Santiesteban.

Once she will have heard the proposals she confirmed that her team will pick-up a ballad, an up-tempo and something more catchy; this confirms a Spanish selection to be made of three songs similar as the ones from 2002 or 2003 when Spain achieved its last top-10.

Pastora highlighted her wishes to send a ballad and stated “I feel comfortable with ballads and they are the strongest part of my register and repertoire although pop songs achieved better results in the last years, it has to be a song easy to listen and without necessarily great lyrics since I will be singing in Spanish, I would not mind to sing a small part in English so they viewers could understand the message”.

Pastora wold prefer also to have a simple performance avoiding dance routines or complicated staging “Something simple so people will concentrate on the song and the performance, Azerbaidjan won without anything spectacular so Germany did in 2010″.

The highest priority of the singer is to finish in a good position this is the reason why she will not impose to select a song from her album “We have not been in the top-10 within the last 10 years, so we have to concentrate to achieve at least one or to finish in the first half of the scoreboard“

TO AVOID A FLAMENCO ENTRY

She has in her mind the 0 points received by Remedios Amaya “Spanish Folk does not work in Eurovision, it is what tourists are looking for when they are coming here but they definitely do not like in the Song Contest”.

Pastora sees Eurovison as an opportunity to get other public to know her in Europe or even in Spain “Since people in Spain tends to relate artists with a particular style, in my case only flamenco”; she is really excited and full of joy to start working on the song “specially now that music industry is having a critical situation”

Finally Pastora also mentioned her worries about neighbourhood voting in Eurovision, “It has been an issue within the last years and it is something that does not help Spain since we are in the corner of Europe with only three neighbours and one of them dropped from Eurovision”

See the greetings from Pastora to the Spanish fans

http://youtu.be/Ci2CU6y8Fr0

Pastora Soler to represent Spain in Baku

TVE fulfilled its promises and announced it today; Pastora Soler will represent Spain in Baku.

The artist was born in Sevilla in 1978 and started her career 17 years ago having published 11 albums so far, although she started singing coplas and flamenco she shifted to contemporary pop without missing her Spanish touch shown in her power ballads.

She was recently nominated for “Album of the Year” by TVE as well as for the best “Flamenco Album” at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards; Pastora is also a songwriter who mixes flamenco and pop in her compositions

Spanish Television follows the path of France, United Kingdom, Serbia or FYR Macedonia by selecting a renowned artist. The song will be chosen by televoting in a TV-show but no further details have been provided yet.

RTVE will announce a brand new format before end of the year

Spanish lack of news about the 2.012 representative is putting fans on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Spanish Head of Eurovision and older member of the EBU group, Federico Llano has just announced that the National Broadcaster will announce a brand new format before end of the year. Spanish fans have been cherished within the last 3 years with early announcements. 2.011 process was published on 4th November 2.010, the one that choose Daniel Diges was on 27th November 2.009, while the one for Soraya was announced on 25th November 2.008. But if we go back till 2.008 the combined internet + televoting process which brought the horrendeous Chikiliquatre to Eurovision was not made public till 22nd January 2.008. To be honest I think people are being just a bit histerical here and seems like we need the news the earliest the better instead enjoying the most what the have got so far. The possibility of an internal decission picking Chenoa seems to vanished so far, or maybe TVE is organizing a Final with several songs for Chenoa which will help her promote her new album and get a good entry for Baku? Chenoa, Falete and David Civera said it clear, they will not compete against other artist for a place in Baku. This is the sad reality of Spanish musicians, the seem to put in risk their careers just by competing among others but they do prefer to waste their time acting as juries in average talent shows. Whatever it will be, looks like the Spanish fans will eat their New Year’s celebration grapes with news about Eurovision 2.012, or maybe not? The answer within 12 days.

David Civera has the perfect song to win Eurovision

David Civera is another add-up to the famous Spanish Artist offering themselves to represent Spain in Eurovision; David has the the best Spanish position ever since 2.001, the 6th place achieved in Copenhaghen with “Dile que la Quiero”. The artist was interwieved in the Spanish newspaper lavanguardia.com to promote his new album “A ritmo de clásicos” covering French and Italian hits from the 60′s and 70′, released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of David’s Music career. He stated “I have a song that will have plenty of chances to win Eurovision, but I need TVE to believe in me and it is not easy to make someone believing in you”. He would not take the risk to have a flop in the Contest at this stage, therefore he insists on briging his own project. Kind of the same requirements other artists like Chenoa, Rocio Rivas or Falte has. Lots of willing this year for Spain from where still we do not have any news about their Baku road map.

Will Chenoa represent Spain?

Golden years seem to be gone for Spain with a high unemployement rate a huge debt and cuts in the social services the Spanish miracle has vanished quite similar situation for the Latin soul of Europe in music. Sony Spain decided to close down and moved headquarters to Miami,Spain is no longer a referent for Latin Music but just a puppet of Latinamerican sounds in order to produce repetitive summer songs which airing days are limited. In Television situation is even worse,Spanish talent shows are failing to providing new stars which fade before start shining while there has not been a single Music-Show in any of the main Tv-channels within the last 4 years. While the situatin is beyond than critical, for Eurovision has already started the coma; Spanish last top-10 is dated in 2.004 with the 10th place achieved by Ramon, Spain has even been stugling to enter the top-20 with two excpetion the deniable “Chiki-Chiki” and “Algo Pequeñito” which conquered plenty of televoting but did not managed to get enough votes from viewers, 3 from the last 4 songs have been wrotten by eurofans while the other was picked as a rejected track from two greek artists. Is anyone hoping anything from Spain? Part of the blame fails on RTVE, Spanish public television lack’s of interest in the Contest, without a clear plan or srategy to follow. Big Artists are also not interested in the Contest but situation has been changing lately and even though we still have no idea about which Spanish plan do we have for Baku there is a name constantly in the Media and this time seems to be repeating so often; Chenoa.

Born in Argentina but moving to Palma when she was 7, Laura Corradini aka Chenoa arose popularity in the first edition of “Operación Triunfo” together with Rosa. She finished 4th therefore she was out of the Eurovision competition but she was picked to back-up Rosa in the back singers. Her first two albums sold masively but then her career start to lose air and came down like a balloon, her last album was quite poor and Chenoa was more famous for her persona life as for her musical performance, last year she came back to Eurovision as part of the Spanish jury. However Spanish fans have always kept her in their sight and she has been selected for second years in a row as the most beloved candidate to represent Spain in Eurovision. The yearly poll from eurovision-spain.com has massive impact in the media with around 5.000 voters. This time Chenoa has positevely reacted to the poll and she started pro-actively facing the possibility to represent Spain in Eurovision. Within two months Chenoa has been in Radio, Television and Press praising Eurovision as the most important musical event of the year, a platform which she would not let behind and would love to take part in; she is also realistic about it and although she aims to represent Spain she also recognizes that there is a long way between wanted to do something and having this materialized. I can read this as a call to RTVE, Chenoa does not want to be competing with other artist in a National Final and she wants to get involved in the selection of the song, this two premises are a must for Chenoa to take part in the contest, the second one is quite understandable since the past experiences of Soraya and Lucía Perez, both critizised lack of support from TVE which ignored artist wishes in terms of staging and production. Not all comments from Chenoa towards Eurovision are candy, she also recently critizised the political voting in the Contest, well she needs first to make up her mind and demonstrate if her intentions are truth or if she is just taking profit of the situation to promote her new single “Como un Fantasma”.

Will RTVE follow the hints of Chenoa and co-operate together to bring back Spain to the top? Or will all these being an futile exercise again? We will have to wait to know what will happen in Spain, personally and due to the situation both Chenoa and RTVE are through, joining forces will be a win win situation for them. TVE will secure a big audience by having Chenoa while the second one will promote her new album profiting her Eurovision nomination.