Barely

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Barei at the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2016
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Throw the dice
  IT 28 04/28/2016 (7 weeks)
Singles
Wildest Horses
  IT 36 05/04/2014 (1 week)
Say yay!
  IT 3 01/28/2016 (15 weeks)

Barei (born March 28, 1982 in Madrid as Bárbara Reyzábal González-Aller ) is a Spanish singer . She won her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song Say Yay! represented.

Life

In 2001 she took part in the Festival Internacional de la Canción de Benidorm together with Gonzalo Nuche, where the singers performed under the name Dos Puntos with the title Abrazo del tiempo . They originally took second place, but were subsequently declared first place due to the disqualification of the winner. Shortly thereafter, Barei moved to Miami to record a few previously unreleased Latin pop pieces. After her return to Madrid, she performed mainly in the concert halls there.

In 2011 she released her first album Billete para no volver in Spanish, which was produced by Rubén Villanueva. Then she concentrated on monthly singles in English, starting with Play in October 2012. Foolish Nana from 2013 was also successful, the videos for Another's Life (2013) and Wildest Horses (2014) reached 600,000 and 1.5 million views, respectively on Youtube.

Her second album Throw the Dice was released on April 7, 2015 and was shaped by British and American pop , funk and soul . The album, which also included some previously released singles, hit the top 30 on the iTunes charts. In September appeared Time To Fight , a collaboration with Fernando Montesinos, from the transmission Atresmedia as the theme song for the 2015-16 UEFA Champions League was selected. She was also active as a composer and wrote the song La última superviviente , which can be heard on Edurne's sixth album called Adrenalina , and Encadenada a ti for Malú , which can be heard on their tenth studio album Caos and their second single.

On February 1, 2016, she won the Spanish preliminary decision Objetivo Eurovisión for the ESC 2016 in Stockholm , beating five competitors and winning both televoting and the evaluation of the expert jury. Your contribution Say Yay! , written by herself, Rubén Villanueva, and Víctor Púa Vivó, was the first in the country to be sung in English only and finished 22nd in the final.

Discography

Albums

  • 2011: Billete para no volver
  • 2015: Throw the Dice

Singles

  • 2012: Play
  • 2013: Another's Life
  • 2013: Foolish Nana
  • 2014: Wildest Horses
  • 2014: You Fill Me Up
  • 2015: Time to Fight
  • 2015: Get Up and Go
  • 2016: Say Yay!

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Spanish charts (chart lists with archive)
  2. ↑ http://olevision.com/2016/01/los-aspirantes-a-eurovision-2016-i-barei/
  3. ↑ http://elpais.com/diario/2001/06/25/cvalenciana/993496691_850215.html
  4. ↑ http://teleprograma.fotogramas.es/programas-tv/2016/enero/barei-eurovision-say-yay
  5. ↑ http://www.rtve.es/television/20151229/barei/1278769.shtml
  6. ↑ http://deportes.atresmedia.com/futbol/champions-league/2015-16/time-to-fight-la-sintonia-de-champions-total_2015090955f027630cf289710935c5e5.html
  7. ↑ http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=barei_to_represent_spain_in_stockholm
  8. ↑ Spain: Barei will sing her entry in English in Eurovision. esctoday.com, accessed February 6, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Barely
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reyzábal González-Aller, Bárbara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid