Viña del Mar International Song Festival
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The Viña del Mar International Song Festival (Spanish: Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar) is a music festival held annually during February since 1959 in Viña del Mar, Chile. It is considered the most important musical event in Latin America.[1]
The Festival features a song competition on two categories (pop music song and folk song), interspersed with performances by international music stars from around the world, encompassing such diverse genres as rock, pop music in various languages, merengue, salsa, reggaetón and others. The event takes place in the Quinta Vergara amphitheatre, and has been broadcast for Chilean television over the years by TVN, Canal 13 or Megavisión. Otherwise, it is most famous in the English-speaking world for showcasing Ray Conniff's directing skills.
In 1988 and 1989 Thomas Anders (of Modern Talking fame) was a headliner of the festival in Viña del Mar.
In 2008, American Rock music band Journey played their first concert with new vocallist Arnel Pineda at the festival. The 2008 Viña Festival was hosted by Sergio Lagos and Tonka Tomicic, and headlined by Nelly Furtado and Wisin & Yandel.
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[edit] El Monstruo
Traditionally, the audience attending the Quinta Vergara for a Festival each year openly demonstrates its acceptance or displeasure on the acts that perform there, be them contestants in the two competitions or established artists. As a result, Chilean media has nicknamed audiences at the Festival as "El Monstruo" ("The Monster"). Earning acceptance from "El Monstruo" usually has a direct impact on an artist's popularity -particularly that of Spanish language pop stars- on the rest of Latin America. Conversely, booing artists offstage is not uncommon.
Artist compete in the Festival's regular competitions for one of three awards: "Gaviota de Plata" (Silver Seagull), "Antorcha de Plata" (Silver Torch) or "Antorcha de Oro" (Golden Torch). However, audience response from the "Monster" may demand that one of the three awards -or, progressively, all three- also be granted to an established act as their performance progresses. An artist that "tames The Monster" by earning all three awards receives recognition as a major star by Chilean and Latin American media almost immediately after a successful performance.
[edit] Winner songs
[edit] International contest
- Before 1968, the contest only allowed chilean authors.
In 2000 the contest included the best songs in the history of the festival.
| Event | Country | Name | Author | Singer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1960 |  Chile |
Viña del Mar | José Goles, Manuel Lira | Mario del Monte |
| II | 1961 | Chile |
Sin tu amor | Óscar Olivares, Gilberto Ávila | Los Cuatro Duendes |
| III | 1962 | Chile |
Dime por qué | María Pilar Larraín | Los Cuatro Duendes |
| IV | 1963 | Chile |
Tan sólo una mirada | Juan Vásquez | Marco Aurelio |
| V | 1964 | Chile |
Está de más | Ricardo Jara | Ginette Acevedo |
| VI | 1965 | Chile |
Como una ola | María A. Ramírez | Cecilia |
| VII | 1966 | Chile |
Por creer en ti | Marco Aurelio, Jaime Atria | Isabel Adams |
| VIII | 1967 | Chile |
Cuando rompe el alba | Willy Bascuñán | Fresia Soto |
| IX | 1968 |  Spain |
Palabras | Jorge Domingo, Enrique Carnicer, Pons de Carnicer | Luz Eliana |
| X | 1969 | Chile |
Mira, mira | Scottie Scott | Gloria Simonetti |
| XI | 1970 | Chile |
Canción a Magdalena | Julio Zegers | Julio Zegers |
| XII | 1971 | Void contest by plagiarism | |||
| XIII | 1972 |  Netherlands |
Julie | Julio Bernardo Euson | Julio Bernardo Euson |
| XIV | 1973 | Chile |
Los Pasajeros | Julio Zegers | Julio Zegers |
| XV | 1974 |  Italy |
Imagina | Giancarlo de Bellis | Annarita Spinaci |
| XVI | 1975 |  Greece |
Love Song | Kostas Karagiannopoulos | Elpida |
| XVII | 1976 | Chile |
Una noche de amor | Carlos Baeza | Roberto Viking Valdés |
| XVIII | 1977 |  Israel |
Canción de amor | Boaz Sharabi | Nava Baruchin |
| XIX | 1978 | Chile |
El tiempo en las bastillas | Fernando Ubiergo | Fernando Ubiergo |
| XX | 1979 | Spain |
A tu regreso a casa | Braulio | Braulio |
| XXI | 1980 | Spain |
Dudando, dudando | Julio Seijas, Augusto Alguero | Juan Sebastián |
| XXII | 1981 |  Germany |
Esperando | Karlheinz Merkel, Cherry Lane | Cherry Lane |
| XXIII | 1982 | Chile |
Ausencia | Juan Carlos Duque | Juan Carlos Duque |
| XXIV | 1983 |  Uruguay |
Alma, corazón y pan | Gervasio | Gervasio |
| XXV | 1984 | Chile |
Se te olvida | Héctor Pernos Bañas | Cristóbal |
| XXVI | 1985 |  Australia |
Ya no puedo más | K. C. Porter, Turner y Toppano | Lorenzo Toppano |
| XXVII | 1986 |  Dominican Republic |
Para quererte | José Antonio Rodríguez | Maridalia Hernández |
| XXVIII | 1987 | Italy |
Kiss me | Ana María de Salvatore | Desa |
| XXIX | 1988 | Italy |
Senza te | Maurizio Piccoli, Gino Mescoli | Marco Del Freo |
| XXX | 1989 |  Colombia |
Te propongo | Fernando Garavito | Edna Rocio |
| XXXI | 1990 | Italy |
Non devi abbandonarmi mai | Angela Tarenzzi | Piero Cotto |
| XXXII | 1991 | Chile |
Tira la primera piedra | Edgardo Riquelme, Sergio Bravo | Javiera Parra, Pedro Foncea |
| XXXIII | 1992 | Chile |
Parece tan sencillo | Juan Carlos Duque | Fernando Casas |
| XXXIV | 1993 | Italy |
In questo mondo | Garibo Giuseppe | Claudio Cirimele |
| XXXV | 1994 |  Argentina |
Como ayer | Claudia Brant, Daniel Tarrab | Claudia Brant |
| XXXVI | 1995 | Chile |
Si tú te vas | Cristian Fissore, René Calderón | Jossé |
| XXXVII | 1996 | Italy |
Aria Ario | Paolo Meneguzzi, Dino Melotti | Paolo Meneguzzi |
| XXXVIII | 1997 | Argentina |
Para vivir un dulce amor | Víctor Heredia, Carlos Nilson | Carlos Elías |
| XXXIX | 1998 | Chile |
Soy tal cual soy | Álvaro Scaramelli | Álvaro Scaramelli |
| XL | 1999 | Colombia |
El aguacero | Alejandro Gómez Cáceres | Carolina Sabino |
| XLI | 2000 |  France |
Let Me Try Again (Laisse-moi le Temps) | Jourdan y Carabelli | Peabo Bryson |
| XLII | 2001 | Argentina |
Ayer te vi | Víctor Heredia | Raly Barrionuevo |
| XLIII | 2002 | Argentina |
Soy tu ángel | Ricardo Pald, Valeria Lynch | Oscar Patiño |
| XLIV | 2003 | Spain |
Este amor es tuyo | Chema Purón | Gisela |
| XLV | 2004 | Chile |
Tus ojos | Alexis Venegas | Alexis Venegas |
| XLVI | 2005 |  Peru |
Mi alma entre tus manos | Jessica Sarango, Jorge Pardo, Andrés Landavere | Jorge Pardo |
| XLVII | 2006 |  Costa Rica |
Dilo de una vez | Humberto Vargas Valerio | Humberto Vargas Valerio |
| XLVIII | 2007 | Spain |
Cuando quieras volver | Pedro Fernández, Valderrama Díaz | Materia Prima |
| XLIX | 2008 | Italy |
La guerra dei trent' anni | Domenico Protino | Domenico Protino |
Winner countries
- Chile: 20 times
- Italy: 7 times
- Spain: 5 times
- Argentina: 4 times
- Colombia: twice
- Germany: once
- Australia: once
- Costa Rica: once
- France: once
- Greece: once
- Israel: once
- Netherlands: once
- Peru: once
- Dominican Republic: once
- Uruguay: once
[edit] Folk contest
- Incomplete list.
Between 1974 and 1980 this contest was cancelled by the military government of Augusto Pinochet
Before 2000, the contest only allowed chilean authors.
| Event | Country | Name | Author | Singer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XLI | 2000 | Chile |
El Corralero | Sergio Sauvalle | Los Huasos Quincheros |
| XLII | 2001 | Chile |
Whipala | Danny Rodríguez | Danny Rodríguez |
| XLIII | 2002 | Peru |
Juramento | Carlos Rincón | Eduardo del Perú |
| XLIV | 2003 | Argentina |
Pintadita | Fernando Barrientos | Fernando Barrientos |
| XLV | 2004 | Argentina |
Bailando con tu sombra (Alelí) | Víctor Heredia | Abel Pintos |
| XLVI | 2005 | Chile |
Cueca al sol | Isabel Parra | Camila Méndez |
| XLVII | 2006 | Chile |
Canción de agua y viento | Elizabeth Morris | Elizabeth Morris y grupo |
| XLVIII | 2007 | Colombia |
Me duele el alma | Leonardo Gómez, Diana Hernández | Maria Mulata |
| XLIX | 2008 | Peru |
Tusuy Kusun | Damaris Mallma | Damaris y grupo |
Winner countries (since 2001, start of International Folk Contest)
- Chile: 3 times (and 35 years of National Folk Contest, between 1960 and 2000)
- Argentina: twice
- Peru: twice
- Colombia: once
