Eurovision: the most famous disasters of the Spanish representatives

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The Eurovision Song Contest has had to be canceled, for the first time in 65 years , by the coronavirus pandemic. A mishap that will always accompany our representative Blas Cantó. But, before him, many of the Spanish artists who have participated in the contest staged moments in which they surely thought about land, swallow me.

In April 1982, a very young Lucia, just 18 years old - she was the youngest representative of our country in the contest -, came out more nervous from the account on stage in the English city of Harrogate where that Eurovision edition was held. It was not for less. Because the Sevillian singer with endless hair, who was still studying COU , had to defend the song É l, nothing less than a tango with an Argentine flavor. At any other time this would not have been of greater importance, but suddenly Lucia's performance became politicized to unsuspected limits and was considered as a provocation by Spain to the subjects of Her Gracious Majesty because the United Kingdom was currently fighting the War of the Falklands. Lucia, who had been chosen by TVE almost two months before, had no guilt or intention of going through life like a modern Agustina de Aragón. But he came out on stage with the tension and uncertainty about how the British public that was crowding the Harrogate International Center would react when the sounds of his tango began.

It must be said that nothing happened. And although many viewers from Spain enjoyed Lucia's performance to the cry of "Spanish Gibraltar !, the English demonstrated their phlegm in the seating area and applauded as if that were not the case at the end of the song. The Spanish achieved a meritorious tenth place Yes, without receiving a single vote from the United Kingdom. Nor could we expect anything else ...

A year later, in 1983, the unforgettable Remedios Amaya lived a night that she would rather have been able to forget. The event was held in the German city of Munich , at the Rudi Sedlmayer Hall, right next to the Olympic Stadium that had hosted the 1972 games. Who does not remember Who runs my boat? , the song with which a very young 21-year-old Remedios participated, and which only garnered zero points. Today the artist is recognized as one of the great figures of flamenco. But, then, that subject did not like much in our country - the stigma of this type of music weighed then too much - nor of course in Europe, where something so racial was not understood.

Remedios Amaya also went on stage with some handicaps. To begin with, as it would reveal years later, he suffered certain attitudes of racism during the days in which the trials leading up to the great Eurovisival gala took place. And, to make matters worse, she had to go out to act in a suit that was not the chosen one ... and barefoot . As the artist herself would explain, she had come to Munich with a "wonderful Tony Benítez costume" that the organization did not allow her to wear because it was the same color as the stage and, apparently, she did very badly on camera. To meet the challenge, our representative put on the same suit in which she had recorded the video clip. But since she had no matching shoes, she decided to go barefoot, as if she were dancing on the sand of a beach. Many artists would later imitate Remedios Amaya. But at that time no one understood it and, in our country, the next day there was no talk of anything other than zero points and bare feet. She had such a bad time that she stayed away from music for several years.

Beautiful to rage, the Azúcar Moreno came out on the Zagreb stage in 1990, and that shortly before their performance one of them broke the zipper of the spectacular suits that Francis Montesinos had made for them and they had to change them for others with those who had already acted in a TVE program by José Luis Moreno.

The mishaps for the Salazar sisters had only just begun. They were in charge of opening the proceedings of the XXXV edition of Eurovision, held that year in the still existing Yugoslavia . And how to forget about that opening. The two artists stomped out to defend their song, Bandido , which would become one of the greatest hits of their career. But when the music had already started playing and they were about to sing, they began to notice something strange and after a few seconds of grimacing and dirt swallow me, the two sisters left the stage before the bewilderment of the hundreds of millions of spectators who were glued to the TV. It must be said that, at the festival, the live music of the orchestra sounded, which had to be synchronized, yes, with the basic percussions and rhythms recorded in playback . And a technical failure of the organization made them out of step, so the Azúcar Moreno did not know where to go.

After a few seconds off the stage in which both of them had tears of rage, everything could sound from the beginning and the sisters curdled a fantastic performance that earned them a wonderful fifth place.

But the displeasure that night was not taken away from anyone by Encarna and Toñi. "We acted out of inertia. The nervous breakdown was such that we did not even remember the choreography," they explained recently on a TVE program. "We had such a bad time that as soon as the performance was over, after throwing a monumental quarrel at the sound technician, we locked ourselves in the dressing room to cry. We had been rehearsing like crazy for months. And, suddenly, the failure of our life. The company executives had to convince us not to run away to the hotel. "

Nine years later, in 1999, Lydia from Madrid represented Spain in Jerusalem , with the song I don't want to listen. His performance was most correct. But it is true that the poor, who was last with a single point awarded by Croatia, was not heard by anyone. Because the European spectators were only hanging on her outfit, a colorful dress by Agatha Ruiz de la Prada that no one understood and that seemed to many to be a veritable bullshit, which detracted from all the rigor of her performance. In fact, Lydia did get an award that night: the Barbar Dex Prize awarded by Eurofans each year to the worst-dressed artist of the edition. Our representative was unrivaled.

Few more tense moments have been lived in Eurovisión like the one that, unfortunately, it was Daniel Diges's turn in 2010. While he was performing his song, Algo pequeñito , in Oslo, he was surprised by the appearance on stage of a man dressed in a black t-shirt and a barretina that was placed among the dancers who accompanied Diges imitating his movements. The party pooper was Jimmy Jump, specialist in sneaking into many events, especially sports. The spontaneous man who ruined the performance of the Spanish, prepared with care and hard work for months, wanted to denounce to all of Europe the cuts that the Catalan Statute had suffered after the declaration of unconstitutionality of several of its articles.

Jump was quickly blocked by the event's security services , which still revealed unforgivable failures, and spent a night in a dungeon in the Norwegian capital. To leave, he had to pay a fine of just over 1,800 euros. Diges showed an admirable pride and the EBU allowed him, of course, to repeat his performance when all the participants of that night finished singing.

And earth swallow me is what Manel Navarro must have thought , in 2017. Impossible to forget his rooster. The Catalan represented TVE in Kiev with the song Do it for your lover. But the most talked about for weeks was the supine detune with which he skated on one of the climbs of the topic. Manel Navarro was in last place with only five votes in the televote. And social networks were filled with memes with all kinds of ingenious versions of kikiriki. It was bad luck because the young singer had not had the rooster in any of the rehearsals.

But those who, after passing through Eurovision, still do not know where to get are Las Kethup. The Muñoz sisters have the honor of having starred in the most embarrassing performance in Spain in the history of the festival, something that they continue to attribute to sound failures and other vicissitudes suffered on the night that was called to be one of the most important of his career. After their worldwide success Aserejé , TVE recruited them to represent us in 2006 with the theme Bloody Mary.

Revisiting the video continues to provoke the same shame from others: it seemed that they had had a few cocktails, or something much stronger, before going on stage and they did not tune, sing or understand why this tacky choreography came with some chairs. Ikea office. A performance table that is night we suppose would lead our representatives to storm the hotel bar cabinet.

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