Spain participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. The public television channel Televisión Española (TVE) organized the national final Eurovision Objective 2017 to select the person in charge of representing the country at the eurofestival that will take place in the city of Kiev (Ukraine). Finally, Manel Navarro was chosen with its theme Do it for your lover to represent Spain in Eurovision.
Spain at the Festival Main article: Spain at the Eurovision Song ContestSpain has participated intermittently since its debut in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1961. In that first participation, it was in ninth position with the song Estando contigo by Conchita Bautista. Since 1999, Spain is part of the so-called "Big Four", together with Germany, France and the United Kingdom; enlarged with Italy in 2011, and called "Big Five". This group of countries goes directly to the final, without having to participate in the two semifinals.
Spain has twice won the Festival. The first one, in London 1968, with the song La, the, the, interpreted by Massiel, and the second one in the following year, with Salomé interpreting Live singing.
Spain has participated in the competition 55 times, winning in two of them and remaining 28 times in the top ten: in 1961, from 1966 to 1975, from 1977 to 1979, 1982, 1984, 1986, from 1989 to 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001 to 2004, 2012 and 2014. He also has not obtained any point in three occasions: in 1962 and 1965 - with a different voting system - and in 1983, always tying with other countries. In the XXI century, the best result of Spain in Eurovision has been a sixth place in 2001, with David Civera and the theme Dile that I love it in Copenhagen. In recent years, Spain has always been in the lower half of the standings with the exceptions of 2012, when Pastora Soler returned the country back to the top 10 with its theme Quédate Conmigo; and in 2014, when Ruth Lorenzo's "Dancing in the Rain" got a tenth position - taking on points with Denmark in the ninth. Representative for Eurovision Eurovision 2017 Goal
Eurovision 2017 is the name of the competition that was used as preselection of the representative of Spain for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. It held its final in Madrid on February 11, 2017. One of the artists of this national final was chosen in a pre-selection round called Eurocasting. The rest of the participants of the national final were invited to compete for RTVE chosen from professional and established artists. Artist Selection Eurocasting
One of the participants in the national final was chosen through the Eurocasting elimination round. A period of presentation of the songs was opened from October 27 to November 27, 2016. At the end of this period, 392 songs were received. RTVE professionals evaluated the entries received and selected 30 to move to the phase of The 30 entries selected were revealed on the RTVE website on December 1st, including songs by Javi Soleil, representative of Spain at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest as part of the D'Nash group, and Brequette , second in the national final of 2014. Internet users had between December 2 and 12 to vote for their 10 favorite entries. The 10 songs with the most votes go to the next phase, where an expert jury will value. The jury then chose three songs to compete in a special streaming show that took place on the RT website
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