María Concepción Bautista Fernández (born 27 October 1936), better known as Conchita Bautista (), is a Spanish singer and actress, best known for her participation in the

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s of and . Bautista moved from her native

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in her teens and quickly established herself as an actress, appearing in a number of films in the 1950s. At the same time she was earning a reputation as an interpreter of Andalusian music and gained a recording contract with the Columbia label. In 1961, Bautista took part in the selection for Spain's debut Eurovision entry with the song "

Estando contigo Spain took part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1961. The country was represented by Conchita Bautista with the song "Estando contigo", written by Antonio Guijarro and Augusto Algueró. The song was chosen through a nationa ...

" ("Being with You"), which was chosen as the country's representative for the sixth

, held in

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, France, on 18 March. "Estando contigo" was drawn as the contest's opening song, and at the end of voting had placed ninth of the 16 entries. In 1965, Bautista came through a very convoluted selection process to win the Spanish Eurovision ticket a second time with " Qué bueno, qué bueno" ("How Good, How Good"), and went forward to that year's

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which took place on 20 March in

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. "Qué bueno, qué bueno" was one of four songs (along with those from , and ) which failed to score, representing Spain's second ''

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in ."Qué bueno, qué bueno" at diggiloo.net
/ref> In later years, Bautista forged a successful recording and touring career in Latin America, Italy, Greece, and Turkey as well as in Spain.

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(Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bautista, Conchita Spanish women singers Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Spain Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1961 Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1965 Spanish film actresses People from Seville 1936 births Living people Singers from Andalusia