Friday, May 14, 2021

Spain - Blas Cantó - Voy A Quedarme

picture from RTVE

24 - 6 pts, not in semi
Blas Cantó wass the Spanish singer in Rotterdam 2021. First it was announced he was proceeding to the new contest, then he wasn't because TVE wanted a preselection show but now he's back on track.
Blas performed two songs from his forthcoming album in a TV show and it was the ballad Voy A Quedarme (I'm staying) that got 58% of the votes
Voy A Quedarme is written by Blas himself with Leroy Sánchez, Daniel "Dangelo" Ortega and Dan Hammond.
The other song was the  uptempo Memoria.  
Both songs were released on February 10 through all your favorite digital platforms.


An English acoustic version titled I'll Stay is recorded. Here a making of clip (RTVE alacarte video service). It's released on April 23.
A Spanish acoustic version was released on April 30.
He's also considering a French version after a fan sent him a French (cover) version.

An English  acoustic duet version with U.K. entrant James Newman will be out on May 18.

Read all about Blas Cantó's Universo here at the 20/20 Collection.

picture from RTVE

Versión Acústica
El Camino A Rotterdam II

Eurovision history for young Blas started early.
In 2004 he was in the Spanish preselection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest final with the song Sentir. He lost out to María Isabel who went on to win the whole shebang with Antes Muerta Que Sencilla.
From 2009 to 2016 He was in a boy band Auryn who tried to get to Eurovision in 2011. They finished top 3 in Destino Eurovisión (2011) but in the end lost out to Lucia Pérez.
Auryn scored 15 top 50 hits in Spain including the #1 Puppeteer (2014). Three of their four albums went to #1.
Blas Cantó has so far released one solo album Complicado from 2018 (CD). It was re-released in 2019 as Complicados, a deluxe version with bonus tracks (2CD).
The album is mainly in Spanish but also includes a few songs in English.
The album was a #1 in the Spanish charts and stayed on the top 100 for 42 weeks.

Versions
Voy A Quedarme
- digital release 10-2, Rotterdam 2CD
I'll Stay - English accoustic
- digital release 23-4
Voy A Quedarme - Versión Acústica
- digital release 30-4
I'll Stay - English acoustic duet with James Newman
- digital 18-5
Voy A Quedarme - karaoke
- on the official karaoke album (digital)


CD Complicados

Links and sources
RTVE Eurovision pages, RTVE details on the songs
Blas Cantó FB, 2020. Instagram


1 comment:

  1. https://music.apple.com/pl/album/ill-stay-single/1562345624
    I'll Stay is out!

    ReplyDelete

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