Viña del Mar International Song Festival

Television broadcast
Country of production	Chile
Year (s)	since 1960
Production company	various
Broadcasting cycle	yearly
genre	music
Moderation	various
First broadcast	February 21, 1960

The Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar (translated "International Song Festival of Viña del Mar") is a major music competition in the Chilean city of Viña del Mar . The first version of the event took place in 1960 and is celebrated for six days every year at the end of February. It is recognized as one of the most important music festivals in Latin America and across the American continent .

The festival has been broadcast on television since 1963 and the first international version began in 1968.

The competition is divided into two categories: international song and folk song .

Winners of the international competition

version		country	title	composer	Interpreter
I.	1960	Chile	Viña del Mar	José Goles and Manuel Lira	Mario del Monte
II	1961	Chile	Sin tu amor	Óscar Olivares and Gilberto Ávila	Los Cuatro Duendes
III	1962	Chile	Dime por qué	María Pilar Larraín	Los Cuatro Duendes
IV	1963	Chile	Sólo una mirada	Juan Vásquez	Marco Aurelio
V	1964	Chile	Está de más	Ricardo Jara	Ginette Acevedo
VI	1965	Chile	Como una ola	María Angélica Ramírez	Cecilia
VII	1966	Chile	Por creer en ti	Marco Aurelio and Jaime Atria	Isabel Adams
VIII	1967	Chile	Cuando rompa el alba	Willy Bascuñán	Fresia Soto
IX	1968	Spain	Palabras	Jorge Domingo, Enrique Carnicer and Carmen Fons	Luz Eliana
X	1969	Chile	Mira, mira	Scottie Scott	Gloria Simonetti
XI	1970	Chile	Canción a Magdalena	Julio Zegers	Julio Zegers
XII	1971	Award not assigned.
XIII	1972	Netherlands	Julie	Julio Bernardo Euson	Julio Bernardo Euson
XIV	1973	Chile	Los pasajeros	Julio Zegers	Julio Zegers
XV	1974	Italy	Immagina	Giancarlo de Bellis	Annarita Spinaci
XVI	1975	Greece	Love song	H. Ballin, N. Ellineos and Kostas Karagiannopoulos	Elpida
XVII	1976	Chile	Una noche de amor	Carlos Baeza	Roberto Viking Valdés
XVIII	1977	Israel	Canción de amor	Boaz Sharabi	Nava Baruchin
XIX	1978	Chile	El tiempo en las bastillas	Fernando Ubiergo	Fernando Ubiergo
XX	1979	Spain	A tu regreso a casa	Braulio Antonio García Bautista	Braulio
XXI	1980	Spain	Dudando, dudando	Julio Seijas and Augusto Algueró	Juan Sebastian
XXII	1981	Germany	Esperando	Karl-Heinz Merkel and Cherry Lane	Cherry Lane
XXIII	1982	Chile	Ausencia	Juan Carlos Duque	Juan Carlos Duque
XXIV	1983	Uruguay	Alma, corazón y pan	Gervasio	Gervasio
XXV	1984	Chile	Se te olvida	Héctor Penrós Bañas	Cristobal
XXVI	1985	Australia	Ya no puedo más	KC Porter, Chris Turner and Lorenzo Toppano	Lorenzo Toppano
XXVII	1986	Dominican Republic	Para crossed	José Antonio Rodríguez and Manuel Tejeda	Maridalia Hernández
XXVIII	1987	Italy	Bésame (kiss me)	Antonio ed Annamaria de Salvatore	Desà
XXIX	1988	Italy	Senza te	Maurizio Piccoli and Gino Mescoli	Marco Del Freo
XXX	1989	Colombia	Te propongo	Fernando Garavito	Edna Rocío
XXXI	1990	Italy	Non devi abbandonarmi may	Angela Tarenzzi	Piero Cotto
XXXII	1991	Chile	Tira la primera piedra	Edgardo Riquelme and Sergio Bravo	Javiera Parra and Pedro Foncea
XXXIII	1992	Chile	Parece tan sencillo	Juan Carlos Duque	Fernando Casas
XXXIV	1993	Italy	In questo mondo	Giuseppe Garibo	Claudio Cirimele
XXXV	1994	Argentina	Como ayer	Claudia Brant and Daniel Tarrab	Claudia Brant
XXXVI	1995	Chile	Si tú te vas	Cristián Fissore and René Calderón	Jossé
XXXVII	1996	Italy	Aria, Ariò	M. Botoni, C. Isgro, Paolo Meneguzzi and Dino Melotti	Paolo Meneguzzi
XXXVIII	1997	Argentina	Para vivir un dulce amor	Víctor Heredia and Carlos Nilson	Carlos Elías
XXXIX	1998	Chile	Soy tal cual soy	Álvaro Scaramelli	Álvaro Scaramelli
XL	1999	Colombia	El aguacero	Alejandro Gómez Cáceres	Carolina Sabino
XLI	2000	France	Let Me Try Again (Laisse-moi le Temps)	Paul Anka e Sammy Cahn (Michel Jourdan e JC Caravelli)	Peabo Bryson
XLII	2001	Argentina	Ayer te vi	Víctor Heredia	Ray Barrionuevo
XLIII	2002	Argentina	Soy tu ángel	Ricardo Pald and Valeria Lynch	Óscar Patiño
XLIV	2003	Spain	Este amor es tuyo	Chema Purón	Gisela
XLV	2004	Chile	Tus ojos	Alexis Venegas	Alexis Venegas
XLVI	2005	Peru	Mi alma entre tus manos	Jessica Sarango, Jorge Pardo and Andrés Landavere	Jorge Pardo
XLVII	2006	Costa Rica	Dilo de una vez	Humberto Vargas Valerio	Humberto Vargas Valerio
XLVIII	2007	Spain	Cuando quieras volver	Pedro Fernández y Valderrama Díaz	Materia great
XLIX	2008	Italy	La guerra dei trent'anni	Domenico Protino	Domenico Protino
L.	2009	Argentina	Ayer te vi	Víctor Heredia	Emiliano del Río
LI	2010	Italy	Volare ( Nel blu dipinto di blu )	Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci	Simona Galeandro
LII	2011	Canada	Try anything	Chris Burke-Gaffney , Christopher Ward and Sierra Noble	Sierra Noble
LIII	2012	Italy	Grace	Bruno Rubino, Giuseppe di Tella and Denise Faro	Denise Faro
LIV	2013	Iceland	Because you can	Jonas Gladnikoff, Christina Schilling, Camilla Gottschalck, Örlygur Smári and Hera Björk	Hera Bjork
LV	2014	Canada	Hypnotized	Jeffery Straker	Jeffery Straker
LVI	2015	Italy	Per fortuna	Franco Simone	Michele Cortese
LVII	2016	Chile	I love you	Lucía Covarrubias	Cristián and Lucía
LVII	2017	Spain	Donde estabas tú	Salvador Beltran	Salvador Beltran
LIX	2018	Chile	Cobarde	Gabriela Pulgar	Gabriela Pulgar
LX	2019	Peru	Ya no más	Susan Ochoa	Susan Ochoa
LXI	2020	Chile	Chillan	Vicente Cifuentes	Vicente Cifuentes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viña del Mar Lineup: Romeo Santos, Alejandro Fernandez, Ricardo Arjona, Yandel & More. Billboard . Retrieved February 19, 2017.
2. ↑ The event was won by Tim Twinkleberry with Svatko blackberry imat nekog for Yugoslavia, but was disqualified for plagiarism.

Web links

Commons : Viña del Mar International Song Festival  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Festival de Viña del Mar 2017 (Spanish)