Su canción
.svg){kind=small} "Su canción" |
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| Cover of vinyl single | |
| Eurovision Song Contest 1979 entry | |
| Country | |
| Artist(s) |
Betty Missiego
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| Language | |
| Composer(s) |
Fernando Moreno
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| Lyricist(s) |
Fernando Moreno
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| Conductor |
José Luis Navarro
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| Finals performance | |
| Final result |
2nd
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| Final points |
116
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| Appearance chronology | |
| ◄ "Bailemos un vals" (1978) | |
| "Quédate esta noche" (1980) ► | |
"Su canción" (Spanish pronunciation: [su kanˈθjon], "Your Song") is a song that was Spain's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, held in Jerusalem, Israel. It was sung by the Peruvian singer Betty Missiego, who was chosen by the Spanish broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), as their representative in the Contest that year.
From 1977 to 1999, TVE used an internal selection process to select both the singer and the song to represent them at Eurovision. For 1979, Betty Missiego, a 34-year-old singer and television presenter from Peru who had previous song contest experience representing Peru at the OTI Festival in Madrid in 1972, was selected to go to Jerusalem with the song "Su canción," written and composed by Fernando Moreno.
At Jerusalem, the song was the nineteenth and final song performed that evening, after Austria's Christina Simon with "Heute in Jerusalem." At the end of judging that evening, "Su canción" took the second-place slot with 116 points. Spain was given 12 points by Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, 12 points being the maximum score allotted to one country by another.
The song was performed from the point of view of "una mujer mayor" (a grown-up woman, ostensibly Missiego), who lived a solitary life until she found joy in the world around her through children who asked her to sing a song with them. At the end, she implores everyone to sing along with her, so the song can become "theirs" as well. Unique that year was her use of children as backup singers of sorts, joining her in "her song." The children on stage that evening were Javier Glaria, Alexis Carmona, Beatriz Carmona, and Rosalía Rodríguez. At the end of the song, the children unfurl small banners, with "thanks" inscribed on each in English, Spanish, Hebrew and French, respectively.
As Spain was the last country to perform, it was also the last to vote. Before its points were awarded to the other countries, it had led the Contest by one point. When it awarded Israel and its song "Hallelujah" 10 points it had, by extension, granted it the win.
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