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Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

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Spain participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "Dime" written by Jesús María Pérez and Amaya Martínez. The song was performed by Beth. The Spanish entry for the 2003 contest in Riga, Latvia was selected through the second series of the reality television music competition Operación Triunfo, organised by the Spanish broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE). Three artists and songs ultimately qualified to compete in the Eurovision selection show of the competition where a public televote exclusively selected "Dime" performed by Beth as the winner, receiving 45% of the votes.

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As a member of the "Big Four", Spain automatically qualified to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest. Performing in position 12, Spain placed eighth out of the 26 participating countries with 81 points.

Background

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Prior to the 2003 contest, Spain had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty-two times since its first entry in 1961.[1] The nation has won the contest on two occasions: in 1968 with the song "La, la, la" performed by Massiel and in 1969 with the song "Vivo cantando" performed by Salomé, the latter having won in a four-way tie with France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Spain has also finished second four times, with Karina in 1971, Mocedades in 1973, Betty Missiego in 1979 and Anabel Conde in 1995. In 2002, Spain placed seventh with the song "Europe's Living a Celebration" performed by Rosa.

The Spanish national broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), broadcasts the event within Spain and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. In 2002, TVE used the reality television singing competition Operación Triunfo (the Spanish version of Star Academy) to select both the artist and song that would represent Spain. The procedure was continued in order to select their 2003 entry.[2]

Before Eurovision

Operación Triunfo

Further information: Operación Triunfo (series 2)

The Spanish entry for the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest was selected through Operación Triunfo, a Spanish reality television music competition consisting of training seventeen contestants in a boarding academy in order to find new singing talent.[3] The second series, also known as Operación Triunfo 2002, took place from 7 October 2002 to 24 February 2003 at the Mediapark Studios in Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, hosted by Carlos Lozano. The competition was broadcast on La Primera and TVE Internacional. The top three contestants competed in the Eurovision selection show, Gala Eurovisión, which consisted of two shows on 10 and 17 February 2003. Each contestant performed three candidate songs, selected by an evaluation committee consisting of representatives of TVE, Gestmusic and Vale Music from more than 200 submitted songs, and the winner was decided exclusively through a public televote.[4] The competing songs and the allocations were announced on 3 February 2003.[5]

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Shows

Song selection

The song selection round of Gala Eurovisión took place on 10 February 2003 and consisted of two rounds of voting. In the first round, an in-studio jury eliminated one song per contestant. The five members of the in-studio jury were Pilar Tabares (music director of TVE), Sergio Dalma (singer, represented Spain in the 1991 contest), José Luis Uribarri (television presenter and director, commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest for Spain), Joaquín Hurtado (program coordinator at Cadena Dial) and Rafael Fernández (webmaster of eurofestival.net).[6] In the second round, a public televote eliminated an additional song per contestant.[7] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the guest performer was jury member Sergio Dalma.[8]

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Final

The final of Gala Eurovisión took place on 17 February 2003. The winner, "Dime" performed by Beth, was selected exclusively through a public televote which ran between 10 and 17 February 2003.[7][9] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, guest performers included two of the Operación Triunfo 2002 finalists Hugo and Miguel Nández.[10]

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At Eurovision

As a member of the "Big Four", Spain automatically qualified to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 on 24 May 2003. During the allocation draw on 29 November 2002, Spain was drawn to perform in position 12, following the entry from Russia and before the entry from Israel. At the conclusion of the final, Spain placed eighth in the final, scoring 81 points.[11]

In Spain, the show was broadcast on La Primera with commentary by José Luis Uribarri.[12][13] The Spanish spokesperson, who announced the results of the Spanish televote during the final, was Anne Igartiburu.

Voting

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Spain and awarded by Spain in the contest. The nation awarded its 12 points to Belgium in the contest.

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