La "otra" Bjork, como sabemos, fue representante del país insular en el Festival de Eurovisión 2010 con el tema "Je ne sais quoi", el cual clasificó a la final y terminó en el 19° puesto con 41 puntos.
Así, la cantante islandesa suma su nombre a otros que han pasado por la competencia en Viña y por el ESC. Elpida (1975), Braulio (1979), Paolo Meneguzzi (1996) y Gisela (2003) ganaron la Gaviota de Plata. Severine, Lenny Kuhr y Anne-Marie David, ganadoras del ESC, también compitieron en la Quinta Vergara. Se suman a ellos: Vanilla Ninja, Romuald, Anne-Marie Godart, Paulo de Carvalho, Alejandro Abad, Sandra Reemer, Lucía Pérez, Arzu Ece, etc.
Fuente: http://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/entretencion/festival-de-vina/vina-2013-presento-sus-competencias-y-sumo-jurado-popular/2012-12-13/135113.html
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Y lo consiguió: Hera Bjork gana Viña 2013.
La artista islandesa logró la Gaviota de Plata para su país, superando a Estados Unidos (que obtuvo el premio a Mejor Intérprete) y a Panamá en la final. Mientras que la sección folclórica la ganó el local Chile, mientras el mejor intérprete fue Colombia.
Ya varios medios ligados al Festival Eurovisión resaltan el triunfo de la delegada islandesa de 2010.
Hera Björk wins South American music competition
Previous Eurovision Song Contest entrant Hera Björk has become the first Icelandic aritst to win the International Competition of South America's biggest music festival, Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar, with the song Because You Can.
Many people refer to Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar as the South American equivalent of the Eurovision Song Contest or the Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo held in Italy.
Lasting an entire week and including performances from some of the world's most respected and well-loved artists, the festival held in Viña del Mar, Chile has become the number one music event in South America since its establishment in 1960.
Each year as part of the festival, artists and songwriters from all over the world are invited to enter the International Competition, which has previously been dominated by the likes of Chile, Italy, Spain and Argentina. This year, however, Iceland won the competition for the very first time in its 53 year history with a song performed by non-other than the lovely Hera Björk, who in 2010 entered the Eurovision Song Contest for Iceland with the song Je Ne Sais Quoi.
A top-class songwriting team
In Chile, the song that won the hearts of the judges and that was performed so wonderfully by Hera is called Because You Can, written by Camilla Gottschalck, Christina Schilling, Jonas Gladnikoff and Örlygur Smári.
This team are no strangers to the world of songwriting and have entered the Eurovision Song Contest and various national selections all over the continent.
Örlygur Smári has written no less than three of Iceland's Eurovision Song Contest entries including Tell Me in 2000, This Is My Life in 2008, co-wrote Hera Björk's own entry in 2010, Je Ne Sais Quoi and he's also the person behind this year's entry Eg A Lif.
Jonas Gladnikoff has written over 20 entries for national competitions throughout Europe and has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland twice with Et Cetera in 2009 and Niamh Kavanagh's It's For You in 2010.
Christina Schilling has similarly been involved in many projects and co-wrote Et Cetera with Jonas. The duo have also collaborated on many other projects including Hera Björk's song Someday which came second at the Danish national final in 2009.
Camilla Gottschalck, an actress, singer and songwriter, was Hera Björk's backing singer in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix in 2009 and co-wrote Nikki Kavanagh's song Falling with Christina, which participated in the Irish national final in 2011. She has also been involved in many other projects both musically and as an actress.
After the sucess in Chile, maybe one day we will see Hera Björk and her talented songwriting team back in Europe's favourite TV show.
Would you like to see Hera Björk back in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Resumen en español: Hera Björk gana competición musical en Sudamérica. Anterior participante del Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión Hera Björk se ha convertido en el primer artista islandés en ganar la competencia internacional del mayor festival de música de América del Sur, Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar, con la canción "Porque usted puede".
Link: http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=h ... ompetition
la canción es muy buena.
