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OTI Festival 1973
The OTI Festival 1973 was the second edition of the annual OTI Festival. It was held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, following the country's victory at the 1972 contest with the song "Dialogo" by Claudia Regina and Tobías. Organised by the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana (OTI) and host broadcaster Rede Tupi, the contest was held at the Palácio das Artes on Saturday 10 November 1973 and was hosted by Walter Forster and Íris Lettieri. With the debut of México, this time 14 countries participated in the event, one more compared to the first edition in which Mexico had been disqualified. It was precisely the Mexican entrant Imelda Miller with the song "Qué alegre va María" the one who won the festival. Background According to the original rules of the OTI Festival, the winning country of the previous edition would host the contest the next year. Brazil, which was the winning country of the first edition of the festival with the duet composed by Claudia Regina and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, ranked as the third-most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and the 17th-most populous in the Americas. Belo Horizonte is the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil's second-most populous state. It is the first planned modern city in Brazil. The region was first settled in the early 18th century, but the city as it is known today was planned and constructed in the 1890s, to replace Ouro Preto as the capital of Minas Gerais. The city features a mixture of contemporary and classical buildings, and is home to several modern Brazilian architectural icons, most notably the Pampulha Complex. In planning the city, Aarão Reis and Francisco Bicalho sought inspiration in the urban p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile In The OTI Festival
Chile started participating in the OTI Festival in 1972 in Madrid and continued participating in an uninterrupted way till the last Show held in 2000 in Acapulco. History This country won the contest in two occasions: the first one in 1984 with the singer-songwriter Fernando Ubiergo with his song "Agualuna" (Moonwater). The second Chilean victory came in 1998 with the strambotical rapper and comedian Florcita Motuda with his song "Fin de siglo, es hora de inflamarse deprimirse o transformarse" (End of century, It's time to get wild, to get depressed or to transform ourselves). Apart from their victories, the Chilean member stations got the second place in the festival with Alberto Plaza and his song "Canción contra la tristeza" (A song against sadness) in 1995. Chile also got three third places in 1976 with Alfredo Fuentes and his song "Era solo un chiquillo" ("I was just a little child"), in 1985 with Juan Carlos Duque and his song "Para poder vivir" (To be able to live) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venevisión
Venevisión () is a Venezuelan free-to-air television channel and one of Venezuela's largest television networks, owned by the Cisneros Media division of Grupo Cisneros. History The company's roots date back to June 1, 1953, with the establishment of Televisora Mirandina Independiente S.A, (Televisa), which operated the channel 4 in Caracas and channel 5 in Maracaibo. When TELEVISA went bankrupt in 1960, Diego Cisneros purchased the remaining assets of the company. On February 27, 1961, Venevisión (a portmanteau based on ''Velvet de Venezuela - Televisión'') was officially inaugurated with a special inaugural on March 1, 1961, show in which thousands of people attended, and took place in the station's parking lot. Venevisión began with a capital of 5,500,000 bolívares and 150 employees including artists, administrators, and technical personnel. Venevisión's original administrators were Diego Cisneros (president), Alfredo Torres (transmission manager), Héctor Beltrán (pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paco Bandeira
Francisco Veredas Bandeiras better known as Paco Bandeira (born 2 May 1945, Elvas, Portugal) is a musician from Portugal. He is known for representing his country in the second edition of the OTI Festival in 1973 which was held in Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol .... Bandeira stood trial in 2012 on suspicion of domestic violence. References 1946 births Living people 20th-century Portuguese male singers {{Portugal-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niní Cáffaro
Erasmo Alfonso Cáffaro Durán, most known as Niní Cáffaro (born November 25, 1939 in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic), is an internationally known singer. Biography Cáffaro began singing gospel while attending elementary school. He started his professional career as a singer in 1959, participating in the Santo Domingo television show ''La Hora del Moro'', hosted by Rafael Solano and transmitted by Rahintel. In 1961 he made his first recording, ''Violeta''. Later, in 1962, he recorded Juan Lockward's song "Ayúdame a olvidar". In 1965, Cáffaro continued his career with the hit song "En ruinas", written by Rafael Solano. Later, he recorded a cover of the famous hit song: "Cada vez más". Cáffaro became more widely known when he won the First Prize Award of the Festival de la Cancion Dominicana in 1968 with Rafael Solano's song " Por Amor". This propelled him to international fame. The next year, he won one of the awards in the first Festival de la Cancion Latina in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algo Más (Camilo Sesto Song)
"Algo Más" (Something More) is a 1973 song by Spanish singer Camilo Sesto. It reached No. 1 on the Spanish charts for 10 weeks from 26 November 1973 to 28 January 1974. The song was written by the singer and arranged by Juan Carlos Calderón. The B-side, "Sin Remedio", was also written by Sesto and arranged by Johnny Arthey. The song took 5th place in the 1973 OTI Festival OTI Festival ( es, Festival OTI de la Canción, pt, Festival OTI da Canção), often known simply as La OTI, was an international song competition, organised annually between 1972 and 2000 by the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana (OTI) ... de la Canción.Billboard - Dec 15, 1973 Vol. 85, No. 50 - Page 19 "Pronto Records' Camilo Sesto took fifth place honors with "Algo Mas." " References 1973 singles Number-one singles in Spain Camilo Sesto songs 1973 songs Songs written by Juan Carlos Calderón {{1970s-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil In The OTI Festival
Brazil debuted in the OTI Festival in the first edition which was held in Madrid in 1972 and participated in the event intermittently from the start of the event until 1984. Rede Globo withdrew from the event in 1985 and 1986 and returned in 1987. Brazil withdrew again from 1988 to 1992. One year later, the Brazilian broadcaster made a brief return to the event until 1995. From 1996 on, Brazil retired definitively from the event. History The Brazilian OTI contestants were internally selected by Rede Globo. Brazil was one of the most successful participating countries in the festival with three victories: The first of those victories came in 1972 in the first edition of the festival with Cláudia Regina and Tobias. The second Brazilian victory came in 1978 in Santiago de Chile with the female singer Denise de Kalafe and her song "El amor... cosa tan rara" (Love... such a strange thing), which was performed in Spanish. The third and last victory of Brazil in the OTI Festival took pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro/Galeão International Airport
Rio de Janeiro/Galeão – Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport , popularly known by its original name Galeão International Airport, is the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2019, it was the country's fourth-busiest airport by passenger traffic. It is named after the neighborhood of Galeão. ''Praia do Galeão'' (Galleon Beach) is located in front of the original passenger terminal (the present passenger terminal of the Brazilian Air Force) and where the galleon '' Padre Eterno'' was built in 1663. Since 5 January 1999 it is also named after Brazilian musician Antonio Carlos Jobim. Galeão Airport is explicitly mentioned in his composition ''Samba do Avião.'' It is the largest airport site in terms of area in Brazil. Since 12 August 2014 it has been operated by the concessionary Rio Galeão, a consortium formed by the Brazilian investor Odebrecht and Changi Airport Group, with a minority participation of the government owned company Infraero, the previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
