David Bisbal Ferre is a Spanish singer, songwriter, and actor. He gained his initial fame as a runner-up on the interactive reality television show Operación Triunfo.
Azúcar Moreno is a Spanish music duo composed of sisters Antonia "Toñi" and Encarnación "Encarna" Salazar. The duo has sold more than 3 million albums and singles since 1984 domestically, and became famous in Europe, the United States and Latin America in the 1990s, with approximately 12 million albums sold worldwide.
María de los Ángeles Felisa Santamaría Espinosa, professionally known as Massiel, is a Spanish pop singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "La, la, la", beating the British pop singer Cliff Richard's "Congratulations".
Paloma Cecilia San Basilio Martínez, known as Paloma San Basilio, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, producer and actress. She was awarded with a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to Latin music. She has sold millions of records throughout her career, with styles that range from melodic songs to pop. She often appeared in various musicals such as the Spanish-language premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita in Madrid. Some other musical theater works include Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady, Victor/Victoria, and Sunset Boulevard.
Mocedades is a Spanish singing group from the Basque Country, who represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 with the hit song "Eres Tú". Since June 2014, Mocedades has been the name of two bands: one with Izaskun Uranga as its leader and the other with Javier Garay. A third group, El Consorcio, is composed of former Mocedades members who left the group but have continued a career together outside the Mocedades brand.
María Dolores Amaya Vega, better known by her stage name Remedios Amaya, is a Spanish flamenco singer. She represented Spain at the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest. Remedios Amaya has been popular with international audiences since the debut of her first self-titled album in '78.
"Eres tú" is a popular Spanish language song written in 1973 by Juan Carlos Calderón and performed by the Spanish band Mocedades, with Amaya Uranga performing the lead vocal.
The Viña del Mar International Song Festival is an annual international music festival held every 3rd week of February in Viña del Mar, Chile. Started in 1960, it is the oldest and largest music festival in Latin America, and one of the longest running music festivals in the world. It was cancelled in 2021 and 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
D'Nash was a Spanish vocal group, best known for representing Spain in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest.
Antonio Carmona Amaya is a Spanish gypsy singer of flamenco. He also has French nationality. From the early 1980s, he was a member of the Spanish flamenco-fusion group Ketama. that he joined after main vocalist Ray Heredia left. The band also included José Soto also known as "Sorderita". Ketama in its latest set-up included Antonio Carmona as main vocalist along with his brother, Juan José Carmona Amaya known as "El Camborio", and his cousin, José Miguel Carmona Niño known as "Josemi".
Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez, often simply referred to as Raphael, is a Spanish singer and television, film and theater actor. Raphael is recognized as one of the most successful Spanish singers in the world, having sold more than 70 million records worldwide in 7 languages.
Bandido is the fourth studio album by Spanish duo Azúcar Moreno, released on CBS-Epic in 1990. The album became the Salazár sisters' international breakthrough.
Trigo Limpio were a Spanish musical trio popular in Spain in the 1970s and 1980s. It was originally formed by Amaya Saizar, Iñaki de Pablo and Luis Carlos Gil.
OTI Festival was an annual singing competition, held between 1972 and 2000 among active member countries of the Organización de Telecomunicaciones de Iberoamérica (OTI). It was preceded in 1969 and 1970 by the Festival Mundial de la Canción Latina, held in Mexico.
Sergio y Estíbaliz were a Spanish vocal duo, formed by Sergio Blanco Rivas and Estíbaliz Uranga Amézaga who also worked with groups Mocedades and El Consorcio. They were also known for their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975. Both were born in Bilbao.
José María Íñigo Gómez was a Spanish journalist, radio and television presenter, and stage and screen actor.
"Desde Esa Noche" is a song recorded by Mexican singer Thalía, featuring Colombian singer Maluma, for her thirteenth studio album, Latina (2016). The song was released as the album's first single on January 29, 2016 through Sony Music Latin. The song was written and produced by Sergio George with María Adelaida Agudelo, Pablo Uribe, Mauricio Rengifo and Maluma. "Desde Esa Noche" is a Latin pop and reggaeton song, with banda and norteño influences, as well as mariachi horns and cumbian accordion. It has received mostly positive reviews and has become a commercial success all over Latin America and the United States, where it peaked at number 16 on the Hot Latin Songs chart and number 4 on the Latin Pop Songs chart, published by Billboard.
Spain and its OTI member station RTVE was one of the founding members of the OTI Festival and debuted in the event in 1972 in Madrid, being the host broadcaster of the first show. The Spanish participation in the song contest was almost uninterrupted, in fact, RTVE only withdrew from the contest in the edition of 1986, which was held in Santiago, as a protest against the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
OTI Festival 1977 was the sixth edition of the annual OTI Festival. It took place in Madrid, Spain, following the country's victory at the 1976 contest with the song "Canta cigarra" by María Ostiz. Organised by the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana (OTI) and host broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE), the contest was held at the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid on Saturday 12 November 1977 and was hosted by Mari Cruz Soriano and Miguel de los Santos.
This article covers events in 2020 in continental European music, arranged in geographical order.
