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Junior Eurovision 2024: RTVE reveals the hosts of the 22nd edition!

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The 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held for the first time in Spain on November 16. The excitement is high for the Spanish as 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of their first and only win in the contest, with Maria Isabel, as well as the first time that the nation hosts an EBU event since 1969.

Just moments ago, RTVE revealed the hosts of the 22nd edition of the children’s contest, which will be held in Baja Mágica in Madrid on November 16. Specifically, the show will be hosted by Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Clotet and Melani Garcia.

 

Who are the hosts of Junior Eurovision 2024?

Fans of the Eurovision Song Contest will recognize Ruth Lorenzo because she represented Spain in the 2014 competition. Lorenzo was born in Murcia. Ruth’s song “Dancing in the Rain” brought Spain in the top ten in Copenhagen ten years ago. Since then, the singer has continued to pursue her musical career and has ventured into television hosting. Ruth has hosted Spain’s Eurovision pre-selection show, Benidorm Fest, among other shows.

Marc Clotet is an award-winning actor who has acted in theater, television and film. In 2021, Marc established his own production company as well. Esto No Es Suecia, his debut series, was co-produced by RTVE. It received honors from the Prix Europa Awards as well as the Cannes Series Festival.

Melanie García competed for Spain in the 2019 Contest, which took place in Gliwice, Poland. With her song “Marte” she made a very successful return for Spain, placing third overall. Since then, the young singer has released more music and done roles in theater and television. In 2022, she received a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards nomination for Best Spanish Artist. Additionally, Melani won the 2018 La Voz Kids series, one year before she brough Spain the second place in Junior Eurovision.

Junior Eurovision 2024

Seventeen countries will take part in the 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest:

  • Albania – RTSH
  • Armenia – AMPTV
  • Cyprus – RIK
  • Estonia – ERR
  • France – FT
  • Georgia – GPB
  • Germany – ARD/NDR
  • Ireland – RTÉ
  • Italy – RAI
  • Malta – PBS
  • North Macedonia – MRT
  • Poland – TVP
  • Portugal – RTP
  • San Marino – RTV San Marino
  • Spain – TVE
  • The Netherlands – AVROTROS
  • Ukraine – UA:PBC

The 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held on November 16 in Madrid, Spain, following the country’s second-place finish last year and the refusal of the winning country, France, to host for the second year in a row. The slogan for this year’s contest is “Let’s Bloom!”.

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Source: junioreurovision.tv

Spain: Ruth Lorenzo expresses her frustration on a participation on Benidorm Fest 2024!

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Despite her strong interest, Ruth Lorenzo has decided not to take part in Benidorm Fest 2024. The singer who represented Spain at Eurovision 2014 has revealed that she was considering taking part in the next RTVE national final, but this year’s rules will prevent her from doing so.

Through her social media accounts, the singer explained that she wanted to participate with her song “Woman”, one of the tracks of her latest EP. In order to be able to compete, she decided to remove it from her album, before its release on April 14.

However there was a change in plans. Ruth Lorenzo said:

“I was informed, unofficially, that this year at Benidorm Fest they were going to accept 100% songs in English.

Being the most important song of this EP, with the most important message and with a sound that marks a before and after in my career, I wanted to give you the gift of presenting it at Benidorm Fest trying to return to Eurovision after ten years. Unfortunately, “Woman” was not chosen to compete at the Festival.”

The track is set to be released on September 1st, and she considers it very important to her now that she is in a new phase of her life where she is 100% free after overcoming her problems with her previous record company.

“I am now establishing myself, as an independent label for future work”

Benidorm Fest rules allow song lyrics to be mainly in Spanish and/or another official language, however, lyrics in other languages are acceptable as long as they do not exceed 40% of the total lyrics.

The previous winner of Benidorm Fest and Spain’s representative at Eurovision 2023, was Blanca Paloma with the song “EaEa” and placed 17th in the Grand Final:

https://youtu.be/Vw6qPWhjevk

Source: eldiario.es

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Spain: Ruth Lorenzo will announce the 12 points of the Spanish jury!

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As announced by El Plural, Ruth Lorenzo, who represented Spain at Eurovision 2014, will return to the festival this year as the representative of the Spanish jury in the final on May 13. The singer replaces presenter Nieves Álvarez, who has announced the results of the Spanish jury in the last five contests, since 2017.

Ruth Lorenzo has been closely associated with Eurovision since her entry in 2014 with the song “Dancing in the rain“, with which she took 10th place, thus achieving one of the best placings for Spain in the 2010s (along with Pastora Soler, also 10th in 2012). She has also performed at the first PrePartyES in 2017 and 2022, while she was invited to Benidorm Fest 2022.

Below you can enjoy our reaction video to this year’s Spanish entry for Eurovision 2023:

source: escplus.es

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Spain 2021: Benidorm Song Festival returns as national final

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Spanish broadcaster RTVE announced the revival of the Benidorm Song Festival.  The historical music festival took place in the city of Benidorm from 1959 until its last edition in 2006.  Moreover, the new Benidorm Song Festival will be the Spanish national selection for Eurovision.

The revamped contest will take place in February, 2022.  Three main shows will make the festival: two semi-finals and a grand final.  RTVE will broadcast the show via La 1 and RTVE Play.  More details will be available soon.  However, we already know that a split jury/public vote will decide who will represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

RTVE president José Manuel Pérez Tornero; the president of the Valencian Government, Ximo Puig; and the mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez announced the news in front of the beach.  In addition to this, Ruth Lorenzo performed for the audience her 2014 entry Dancing In The Rain and Waterloo.

We want Benidorm to be a meeting point for what we need most now: music, Europe and diversity. With the ‘Benidorm Festival’ we intend to achieve an emotional and tourist reactivation of the Valencian Community.’

The Benidorm International Song Festival took place from 1959 to 2006.  The contest was modeled after the Italian Sanremo Music Festival.  The winner of the Benidorm Festival received the Golden Mermaid Trophy.  RTVE used to broadcast the event.  Further, RVTE President José Manuel Pérez Tornero said that the Spanish broadcaster would take their participation “very seriously”.

Spain’s last results on Eurovision have been far from satisfactory, being outside of the top 20 since 2015.  In addition to this, their best achievements in recent times have been two top 10s in 2014 and 2012.  Spain came in the top 5 for the last time in 1995 with Anabel Conde who ended in second place.

Hopefully their new national selection process will help Spain make a turning point on Eurovision.

Source: Eurovision.tv

 

Spain: Ruth Lorenzo gives a concert from her balcony, during the quarantine in Madrid

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The Spanish government is taking stricter measures every day, even imposing a ban on the movement of citizens. Ruth Lorenzo, who represented Spain in 2014 with “Dancing In The Rain”, reaching tenth place in the final, gave a concert … from her balcony, wanting to have as much fun as her incarcerated neighbors. The scenes you see are touching and impressive and they really deserve congratulations.

Music makes people come together ❤️ps: @conchitawurst here is the purple rain that I owed you

Posted by Ruth Lorenzo on Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Source:ESCXtra