Spain: "Memoria" and "Voy a quedarme" are Blas Cantó's candidate songs for Eurovision 2021 .

Spain:
Monday, 08 February 2021

  • The Spanish national broadcaster, TVE, has revealed that "Memoria" and "Voy a quedarme" are Blas Cantó's candidate songs for Eurovision 2021 .

    TVE, shared today the titles of the two potential Eurovision 2021 entries for the country's hopeful, Blas Cantό. The songs, a  "very catchy" uptempo  and a powerful ballad, will premiere on Wednesday,  February 10 at 6:00 p.m.  From the launch of the songs, viewers will be able to  vote for their favorite option  to represent Spain in the 65th edition of the festival through the  website  and the  official app of Eurovision TVE , as well as  telephone calls  and  SMS .

    The Spanish candidate will present the themes at the  'Destino Eurovisión' selection gala  , which will be broadcast live on La 1. This program, whose date will be announced in the next few days, we will know  the song that was chosen by the audiencee  and, therefore, the one that Blas Cantó will perform at the  Rotterdam final on May 22.

     

    "Memoria"

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    Memoria is the more uptempo song among the two candidate entries for Blas. "Memoria" is a song that aims to convey  good energy to the public,  but at the same time, make them  excited. The Spanish hopeful says about this song:

    "It is a song with a lot of power, it makes you sing it and get up from your chair. It is a very careful production, with a lot of percussion, with a very powerful set of voices. "The lyrics speak of what you would love to get out of your head, but you know that you will never be able to. Because it makes you remember that you are the version of you today, and it is a way to manage emotions ".

    The song has been composed Blas himself along with Steve Daly, Oliver Som  and  Leroy Sánchez.

     

    "Voy a quedarme"

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    The second candidate song for Eurovision 2021 is a  power balad,  a genre that the artist is close to and allows him to show off his  vocal skills on stage.Voy a Quedarme ( I'm going to Stay) is very  sensitive and strong  at the same time that ambitions to move the audience. Blas says about this song: 

     "I don't even know how to define it. It's an incredible song, full of emotion."

    Blas Cantó points out that he would like to  start it  a cappella  so that even the "slightest breath" is heard. This moving ballas is a modern composition, which preserves influences from great classical ballads and created by the performer himself together with  Leroy Sánchez ,  Daniel Ortega 'Dangelo'  and  Dan Hammond. The last two were behind Cantό's ESC 2020 entry 'Universo'.

     

    The Voting Process

    This year,  viewers will choose the song from Spain for the  Eurovision Song Contest . Voting will open this Wednesday, at 6:00 p.m., as soon as the premiere of "Memoria" and "Voy a Quedarme" takes place. From then on, viewers will be able to vote for their favorite entry through phone calls, via SMS, on the  web (www.rtve.es/eurovision)  and the  Eurovision TVE APP  (you can download the application for IOS devices  or  Android ). During this first voting phase, users will be able to  vote  online  once a day  (for each device) and from  any country in the world .

    Voting will close just before the start of  'Destino Eurovisión' , in which Blas Cantó will perform his two candidate songs live. After the two performances, the voting will reopen for a few minutes - this time, it will be possible to  vote unlimitedly  through the internet. By the end of the gala, we will find out the song  which will fly with Blas Cantó to Rotterdam next May.

     

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