.- The Sting British, Spanish Alejandro Sanz and Puerto Rican Chayanne and Calle 13 will vibrate from 21 to 26 February, the scene of the Festival de Viña del Mar, which will end just as one-year anniversary of the earthquake that left unfinished the previous edition the Chilean popular event. Mexican Marco Antonio Solis and Roberto Carlos will be responsible for seasoned with ballads the menu at this festival, tropical rhythms that distill the hand of America and Chile Adventure, an American Dominican.
As usual, the grid will include interventions by comedians and folk and international powers, all in the hands of the presenters and the Spanish Rafael Araneda Eva Gomez, both of Chilevisión, commissioned this year to broadcast the festival. All of them will face the public of the event, which has earned the nickname "Monster" for his scathing boos, but increasingly more easily granted awards by popular clamor, the torches of silver and gold, and silver gull.
The event also reserves some surprises, like the homage to be rendered on Wednesday, 23 Sandro Argentine singer-songwriter, who died last year, and for which it is hoped that the presence of his widow and one child. But if memories are concerned, this version will certainly be marked by the first anniversary of the earthquake on the morning of February 27, 2010 shook the center and south of the country and forced to suspend the final day of concerts.
That night, Guatemalan Ricardo Arjona requested further their appearance on the stage of Viña del Mar. As a result the show is not held out longer than necessary and ended just 45 minutes before the earth roared violently. By then, the 15,000 seats of the amphitheater at the Quinta Vergara were already empty and there were any deaths.
A year later, the amphitheater will vibrate, but this time with the sounds of Roberto Carlos, a classic of Brazilian music that will open the first evening of the event along with the Mexican Yuri, presented for the fourth time in Viña del Mar. On Tuesday 22, Americo, who last year got the whole country in the pocket with his spectacular performance at the Quinta Vergara, will bring up the audience with their dance beats and then handing off to Adventure, a true expert in bachata.
The festival heavyweights begin to land on Wednesday, 23 hand of Marco Antonio Solís and Calle 13. Both repeated and re-experience the challenge of matching the success they had in the 2008 edition. In addition, Puerto Ricans want to give a boost to local artists, unusual in this festival, and it will sing some songs accompanied by "Pig in stone," Inti Illimani "History" and Camila Moreno, three on the national scene.
The party will continue on Thursday with the stomping beat of Chayanne, Viña also passed just three years ago, and the Venezuelan Carlos Baute, who is also international competition jury. The Cuban-American Pitbull night to close the base of reggaeton, a genre that gained much prominence in recent editions of the festival but on this occasion will be relegated to a single action.
On Friday pop classics will return in the voice of Britain's Sting, which will be assisted by the legendary Chilean band Los Jaivas formed in the 60's in Viña del Mar and exiled in France during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The Spanish Alejandro Sanz reach the closing day of the festival with a Grammy in his pocket for his latest album, "Paradise Express", but will the Chileans Villa Cariño and Los Viking 5 who give closing the festival with tropical rhythms.
But the show will also offstage, in the press conferences taking place at a popular hotel in the coastal city and the television sets who are moving to be closer to the stars. The activities begin tonight with the opening ceremony which will involve the team in charge of television broadcasting, some members of the jury and the prospect of becoming queen of the contest.
And on Monday, dozens of reporters and photographers assailed as every year on the steps of the Quinta Vergara, attentive to the vibrations of a public willing to bury the fear and deal with the memory of the catastrophe with music and dance. 
As usual, the grid will include interventions by comedians and folk and international powers, all in the hands of the presenters and the Spanish Rafael Araneda Eva Gomez, both of Chilevisión, commissioned this year to broadcast the festival. All of them will face the public of the event, which has earned the nickname "Monster" for his scathing boos, but increasingly more easily granted awards by popular clamor, the torches of silver and gold, and silver gull.
The event also reserves some surprises, like the homage to be rendered on Wednesday, 23 Sandro Argentine singer-songwriter, who died last year, and for which it is hoped that the presence of his widow and one child. But if memories are concerned, this version will certainly be marked by the first anniversary of the earthquake on the morning of February 27, 2010 shook the center and south of the country and forced to suspend the final day of concerts.
That night, Guatemalan Ricardo Arjona requested further their appearance on the stage of Viña del Mar. As a result the show is not held out longer than necessary and ended just 45 minutes before the earth roared violently. By then, the 15,000 seats of the amphitheater at the Quinta Vergara were already empty and there were any deaths.
A year later, the amphitheater will vibrate, but this time with the sounds of Roberto Carlos, a classic of Brazilian music that will open the first evening of the event along with the Mexican Yuri, presented for the fourth time in Viña del Mar. On Tuesday 22, Americo, who last year got the whole country in the pocket with his spectacular performance at the Quinta Vergara, will bring up the audience with their dance beats and then handing off to Adventure, a true expert in bachata.
The festival heavyweights begin to land on Wednesday, 23 hand of Marco Antonio Solís and Calle 13. Both repeated and re-experience the challenge of matching the success they had in the 2008 edition. In addition, Puerto Ricans want to give a boost to local artists, unusual in this festival, and it will sing some songs accompanied by "Pig in stone," Inti Illimani "History" and Camila Moreno, three on the national scene.
The party will continue on Thursday with the stomping beat of Chayanne, Viña also passed just three years ago, and the Venezuelan Carlos Baute, who is also international competition jury. The Cuban-American Pitbull night to close the base of reggaeton, a genre that gained much prominence in recent editions of the festival but on this occasion will be relegated to a single action.
On Friday pop classics will return in the voice of Britain's Sting, which will be assisted by the legendary Chilean band Los Jaivas formed in the 60's in Viña del Mar and exiled in France during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The Spanish Alejandro Sanz reach the closing day of the festival with a Grammy in his pocket for his latest album, "Paradise Express", but will the Chileans Villa Cariño and Los Viking 5 who give closing the festival with tropical rhythms.
But the show will also offstage, in the press conferences taking place at a popular hotel in the coastal city and the television sets who are moving to be closer to the stars. The activities begin tonight with the opening ceremony which will involve the team in charge of television broadcasting, some members of the jury and the prospect of becoming queen of the contest.
And on Monday, dozens of reporters and photographers assailed as every year on the steps of the Quinta Vergara, attentive to the vibrations of a public willing to bury the fear and deal with the memory of the catastrophe with music and dance.
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