Spanish Eurovision entry was finalist on Britain's X-Factor
Sunday, February 23, 2014 @ 8:56 PM
SPAIN'S 2014 Eurovision Song Contest entry will be Dancing in the rain sung by Ruth Lorenzo after the youngster, who is better-known in the UK than in Spain, won the most votes.
Ruth came fourth in the British version of The X-Factor and will now represent her native country at the B&W Hallerna in Copenhagen, Denmark.
She was chosen out of five finalists by a professional jury made up of established artists with a long-running pop career in Spain behind them – Mónica Naranjo, whose haunting melodies hogged the top end of the charts in the 1990s, and David Bustamante and Merche, both of whom started their careers on the earlier version of Spain's Factor X, known as Operación Triunfo, or OT.
The jury coincided with television viewers in votes given for the songs, although initially they were leaning more in favour of La Brequette singing Más (Run).
Both Ruth and La Brequette obtained 66 points, whilst La Dama with Estrella fugaz got 36 points, Jorge González with Aunque se acabe el mundo ('even if the world ends') earned 48 points and Raúl – also an established artist who shot to fame in 2000 with the hit song Hace tanto que sueño a su boca and the album of the same title – scooped up 42 points for Seguir sin ti ('carrying on without you').
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