The young singer from Arrecife, Almudena Hernández, has won the first
prize of the I Festival of Young Promises of the Song "Puerto de
Arrecife", which was held last Friday, December 9, in the
Ramírez Cerdá park in Arrecife. The artist, who also received the
musicians' award for the best instrumented song, prevailed over a
total of 10 participants, who were presented to this contest organized
by the Department of Youth of the City Council of Arrecife, with the
collaboration of the Youth Association ARTILANZ (Artists of Lanzarote).
Almudena Hernández, who performed the song "Starting Point",
will represent Spain at the next International Song Festival
of Miami, which will take place in July 2012, with a theme by the composer
Juan José Santana. The young woman received the award from the mayor of
Arrecife, Cándido Reguera, and the finalist of the musical contest of the
television Operación Triunfo (OT), the singer Saray Ramírez, who
highlighted the great level of all the participants in the contest.
Along with Almudena Hernández, Raúl Martín was awarded with the song
"Memory", and Gloria Sepúlveda, with "What will become of me".
The jury, made up of music professionals, was composed of
the singer Saray Ramírez, the Canarian composer José Juan Santana, who
will be in charge of creating the theme that Almudena Hernández will take to the IV
International Festival of Miami; the member of the Coral de Arrecife
Lolina Curbelo, and the director of the School of Plucked String Instruments of Arrecife,
Juan Arrocha.
In addition, the director of the Giovanni Bardi choir was part of the jury,
José Manuel Clar, and Silvia Aarón, a member of ARTILANZ, acted as secretary without voice or vote.
Numerous followers of these young artists attended the event, as well as
authorities, among which were the mayor of Arrecife, Cándido
Reguera; the deputy mayors, José Montelongo and Nayra Callero, in addition
to the Councilor for Youth, Joel Delgado, and the councilors of Festivities, Víctor
Sanginés and Security and Emergencies, Cristina Marrero.
Also present at this musical event was the Councilor for
Education, Paca Toledo and the councilor of CC Jacobo Lemes.
In the I Festival of Young Promises of the Song "Puerto de Arrecife"
the Fashion School Dance School, the
Xtrem Up dancers, as well as the Lanzarote Got Talent musical group.
Both the mayor Cándido Reguera, as well as the First Deputy Mayor, José
Montelongo, and the Councilor for Youth, Joel Delgado, directly responsible
for the organization of the festival together with the ARTILANZ Youth Association,
chaired by the also singer Juanjo López, were satisfied with
the development of this festival and pointed out that it represents "a
magnificent initiative that we want to consolidate in Arrecife".
Contestants
With a great staging and eager to make their dreams come true,
the 10 participants offered the best of themselves in their performances in
which they also had the live music of an orchestra that, without
doubt, raised the level of this I Festival of Young Promises of the Song
"Puerto de Arrecife".
Divided into two blocks of five participants each, they were passing
through the stage set up in the Ramírez Cerdá park Inma Sepúlveda with
the song "Va todo al ganador", Jonathan Amaro with "Ave María", Gloria
Sepúlveda with "What will become of me", Adrián Montesdeoca with "Como yo te
amo" and Alexandra Lorenzo with the theme "Por ser tu mujer".
After the performances of the guest artists, the
singer Zebens with the song "Volar", Almudena Hernández with "Punto de
partida", Carlos Santana with "Like I love you", Fabiola Fernández with "One
moment in time" and Raúl Martín with "Memory".
It should be noted that these 10 contestants are finalists from other festivals
held in Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Tenerife.