Spain: Blas Cantó to perform "Voy a quedarme" at Eurovision 2021

Spain: Blas Cantó to perform
Sunday, 21 February 2021

  • The Spanish Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Blas Cantό, will be performing "Voy a quedarme"  in the Grand final in Rotterdam next May after this evening's results of the gala 'Destino Eurovisiόn'. 

    After inviting back Blas Canto for this year's contest, TVE decided this year to hold a national selection in which the audience would determine exclusively the song Blas will perform in Rotterdam Ahoy.The game was a case of two songs this year, one uptempo song titled "Memoria" and a ballad called "Voy a quedarme".

    The Eurovision gala Destino Eurovisión took place this evening during which apart from Blas Cantό's performances of the two candidate songs featured great artists and friends of the singer. Namely, Pastora Soler (Spain 2012), Vanesa Martín, Edurne (Spain 2015), Nia, Andrés Suárez, Cepeda and Roi appeared in today's show. 

    Marvin Dietmann, the artistic director for Spain , contributed  in the staging of both candidate songs. Watch below Blas perform the two candidate songs: 

     

    1. "Voy a quedarme"

     

     2. "Memoria" 

     

    The Voting Process

    While, the voting had already opened since February 10 , viewers had been able to vote for their favorite entry through phone calls, via SMS, on the  web (www.rtve.es/eurovision)  and the  Eurovision TVE APP . During this first voting phase, users are were able to  vote  online  once a day  (for each device) and from  any country in the world .

    Voting closed just before the beginning of  'Destino Eurovisión' . After Blas' two performances, the voting reopened for a few minutes - this time, with this time being possible to  vote unlimitedly  through the internet. 

    Eventually the song  "Voy a quedarme" received 58% of the votes and will be the one to travel with Blas Cantό to Rotterdam next May. 

     

    A few words about Blas Cantó

    Blas Cantó is a Spanish singer born on October 26, 1991. He came to fame as member of the Spanish group Auryn, but since 2017 has followed a solo career. In 2000, at the age of 8, he had participated in the children’s  talent show Veo Veo . Back in 2004 he competed in the Spanish national final , Eurojunior, for the Junior Eurovision with the song “Sentir“, but came second behind María Isabel, who eventually won that year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

    In 2009, ο Cantó he founded the boyband Auryn alongside with Álvaro Gango, Carlos Marco, David Lafuente and Dani Fernández. In 2011,the band competed in the country’s national final  Destino Eurovisión  and reached the top 3 placings but Lucía Pérez was the one to win the golden ticket to Dusseldorf.

    After Auryn’s participation in Destino Eurovisión came their first single “Breathe in the Light” in 2011,followed by their debut album Endless Road, 7058 in 2012. Both reached top 10 positions on the Spanish charts. Next album in 2013 was entitled  Anti-Heroes which topped the spanish charts and went platinum. The boyband’s thrid album  Circus Avenue also topped the charts remaining in the first place for five consecutive weeks. Just even months before the group break up they released their fourth album Ghost Town in December 2015.

    In July Canto participated in the 5th edition of  Tu Cara Me Suena ( Your Face Sounds Familiar ) which he won with 55%. Just some days after Auryn announced that they are breaking up as its members had opted for solo career. Cantó released his debut single “In Your Bed” on March 3 the same day the  Tu Cara Me Suena  final took place.

    On March 9, 2018, released his spanish  single “Él no soy yo” while on 14 Speptember 2018 he released his first solo album entitled Complicado, topping the Spanish Album Charts.

    In 2020 Blas was internally selected to represent Spain at Eurovision 2020 with his song "Universo". Unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic and the Spanish act never had the chance to perform his enty in Rotterdam Ahoy. However this year Blas will have the chance to complete his Eurovision journey.