Jorge de la Cruz Correa, who artistically signs as Dellacruzand Pedro Hernández, known as st. Pedroare the two Tenerife candidates to represent Spain in the next Eurovision Song Contest. Spanish Radio Television (RTVE) announced this weekend the identity of the 16 candidates who will compete to travel to Sweden and participate in the most famous song contest in the world.
He Benidorm Festival is a musical contest organized by RTVE for the election of the artist and song for Eurovision. This preselection is made up of three galas, two semi-finals and a final, in which the public and a professional jury will choose the Spanish candidate for each year’s Festival. This year, its celebration is planned at the Palacio de los Deportes in the Valencian town on January 30, February 1 and 3.
Specifically, there are eleven soloists and four groups, some with more experience than others in the industry, who will participate in the selection for Eurovision 2024: Almácor, Angy Fernández, Dellacruz, Lérica, Mantra, María Peláe, Marlena, Miss Cafeina, Nebulosa, Noan, Quique Niza, Roger Padrós, Sofía Coll, st. Pedro and Yoli Saa. It is the third time that the public entity opts for this format to select the Spanish representative in the Eurovision contest. In fact, this third installment has broken all records by receiving 825 proposals compared to 455 last year. This third installment has broken all records by receiving 825 proposals compared to 455 last year.
Trajectories
Dellacruz, who has been living in Madrid, This Monday he celebrated the opportunity to participate in this contest and to do so, also, accompanied by another Canarian. “Being among those selected is already an award and doing it, in addition, with another Tenerife native is a source of pride,” he said. “This is an opportunity to show what we do; we have managed to form a pretty good group between the 16 applicants and us, Tenerife residents, we are going to be in charge of providing the warmth“he added.
Jorge de la Cruz (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 31 years old) moved to live in Madrid three years before the pandemic. The reason: an internship after finishing his training in Labor Relations. Music, which had always been an important part of his life, began to take up more and more space. “They called me to participate in composition sessions and, honestly, I was curious,” she said. He soon began working for many artists, including himself. Sergio Dalma. “That was when everything became professional and I started composing with various artists; during the pandemic I returned to Tenerife but soon I had to return to Madrid because from the Islands it is much more complicated.”
This last year has been crazy, Dellacruz has written songs with Ana Guerra, Soraya, Bombai or Famous, to name just a few examples. At the same time, the Tenerife native had the opportunity to start his own project and has already released five singles with Universal. “I have felt more and more comfortable and my sound is more and more identified; I may have a quite urban appearance but the truth is that I compose more pop,” she said. In fact, with the artist Famous he was already at the last edition of the Benidorm Fest, but as one of the composers of the song that the artist of Nigerian origin defended.
He still can’t say anything about his song, since All topics will be presented on December 14 and the details thereof are kept in the strictest confidence. “If I tell you anything, they’ll kill me,” she joked. “I will only tell you that my song has a pop style with urban and electronic touches and that I have a lot of faith in it.” Meanwhile, this Friday and next Dellacruz will launch two collaborations with Pepe Bernabé and Álvaro Hernández and with the group Última Llave. In addition, on November 25th he will perform in La Laguna with the 15th edition of the Night On White.
st. Pedro
Pedro Hernández (Tenerife, 27 years old) is from Tejina, He studied percussion at the Conservatory and was part of the local group Neptuno. Many will remember him for his time in the television contest The voice, where he reached the final with the help of the singer Juanes. Her life would change after catching the attention of Rebeca León, one of the most prestigious representatives of the international music industry and partly responsible for the incomprehensible success of Rosalia. With her he traveled to Miami and right now he is about to release an EP. It will be, he anticipates, a “conceptual album that immerses us in a journey through different Latin rhythms that range from ballads to salsa, ranchera or merengue.”. Among his latest published songs are Romance and It’s not what it’s up to. About his success, just add one piece of information: his Instagram profile has 65,000 followers.
