Benidorm Fest 2023: Agoney sweeps the first semifinal with the favor of critics and public

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Antía arrived from Galicia to

and kissed the saint, as they say.

fan club

.

They had been sitting by the gate since eight in the morning.

She has been worth it.

from Tenerife

has swept the favor of critics and the public alike, and is now the favorite for the final to be held on Saturday.

Together with him, and in this order,

,

and

reach the final .

,

Sharonne

,

,

and

out .

A spectacular

in her best role as a Eurovision diva began (in rigorous false direct, it must be said) the gala of the second edition of the Benidorm Fest.

1,000 euphoric people in the audience, nine applicants on stage and only four names with passports for the final.

The program began at almost 11:00 p.m. after a preview that did not go down too well in the gossip on Twitter.

The jury has awarded the highest score, a crushing 86 points, to

, with Alice Wonder in second position with 79. The great punished by the professionals has been Aritz Aren, who the gossips gave as the organization's favorite and in the polls among the audience, and that has been left out of the final.

Agoney's 'Piedad' in the first semifinal of the Benidorm Fest.RTVE

There have also been surprises in the demoscopic vote, a good one and a bad one.

If the 350 voters chosen for their sociodemographic characteristics awarded Meler with the highest score, punished by televoting and the professional jury, they in turn punished an Alice Wonder who has not been able to hide her surprise in front of the camera, and who saves the junk thanks to a very good assessment of the professional jury.

The inauguration of the performances has been carried out by

, who aspires to become the first

to represent Spain in Eurovision.

This has not been her first attempt,

already tried her luck 21 years ago with her old band Trans-X and under the name Cristóbal.

A little short of voice and with more presence of her dancers than of herself, her proposal has not convinced her and she has been left out of the final.

from the Canary Islands

has used the Spanish imagination with everything and a flamenco dancer with a removable bata de cola with which he has scored an

, say the experts, which must be something like an acrobatic tango .

German with Alicante roots,

came to show that dreams come true even if they have not always believed in her.

With Christmas reminiscences, she returned the tune of the Sabanero Burrito to our heads with her

, a word with which she brings together all that is good and a

well-choreographed but slightly out-of-tune

Alice Wonder, wrapped in clouds in her performance in the first semifinal of the Benidorm Fest.RTVE

"They say that I scream a lot, but I come to scream even more."

already warned

before going on stage, and she was not lying.

She asked her grandmother the first time she heard

who was the girl who sang the chorus.

He started out surrounded by microphones and dressed in red vinyl and he started coming down to end, indeed, burning, but not before going through his particular tribute to Michelangelo's Pietà.

The

almost collapsed between the choreographies of a show directly packaged for

.

We will have to see how it unfolds in the final on Saturday.

"We want and need rock to be present at the Benidorm Fest".

This has been the second attempt for

, the most original proposal of the Benidorm Fest, both for sound and aesthetics.

His

, note the play on words, has been accompanied by a futuristic

in pink and black that started in a cage guarded by two dancers with their heads covered by a monitor.

Given the general doubt, they asked on their social networks if they should vary the lyrics of their Arcadia and change the original "rain of daggers" for the "rain of panties" that seemed to be heard.

They did it?

It is not clear, perhaps that has been the grace,

Alice Wonder

has appeared among clouds, alone with a black grand piano, to later receive a choir that has given her all the prominence before an extremely emotional audience.

She herself sowed tears in the eyes of Queen Letizia in the tribute to the victims of the Covid with her version of

.

The professional jury has awarded a performance without failure that has put

in the final.

Fusa Nocta, in her performance at the Benidorm Fest.RTVE

The

began its journey during the confinement, and that is what they tried to transmit by starting their

inside some colored boxes, to then go out on the catwalk to raise the public between boats.

A summer rhythm that, however, only seems to have convinced the demoscopic vote.

"Tomorrow I don't know what will happen to us, I only know that today they won't move us," reads the chorus.

He looks like he missed it.

Fusa Nocta

arrived at the

as a favorite with a hymn to the family, grandmothers and self-esteem and she went up on stage perched on a car and with a very long braid that the dancers caressed before disappearing for no apparent reason, like the car neither it seems to have a clear functionality throughout the

, presented in the form of a video clip.

Almost out of breath she has interpreted

a song that has convinced the public and that the professional jury has forgiven.

Megara, in her performance at the Benidorm Fest.RTVE

twins closed the show

, more

than favorites for the festival.

They have 20 million followers on social networks, almost 18.5 on TikTok alone, so it was mandatory that their performance had social references, surrounded by rings of light and even focused through a mobile.

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