And finally the day of the conclusion of the second edition of Canta con conmigo ahora has arrived, the singing competition that Marcelo Tinelli hosted at El Trece. And naturally, there was a winner.
After three months of competition where participants shined on the track and shared their dreams with the public, sing with me now reached its conclusion. “We have arrived at the pedestal of this second edition. Today is the grand finale,” Marcelo Tinelli announced on Thursday 22 December at the start of the programme.
Then it was the turn to introduce the four finalists: Facu Martínez, Dámaris Melina Zulli, Gaspar Gigena and Lucía Belén Báez.
The speech of the president of the jury
Puma Rodríguez, as president of the jury, gave a short opening speech to explain that although each jury surely had a winner in mind, triumph always depended on the last performance. “The end is what matters. This is the end”, he fired. And Marcelo announced smiling: “They wanted pressure? Here they are.”
Facu Martínez, the 23-year-old participant from Rosario, was the one who was to open the stage. Singing say that and got 92 points from the judging panel. The second participant was Dámaris Sully, from San Martín. With energy welling up, the young woman sang shamelessY outscored it by three votes: reached 95 points.
The gala was full of emotions and the performances of the participants were of the highest level.
The third singer was Gaspar Gigena, the young man he had become a favorite of Tinelli and many of the judging panel. At just 18, Gaspar sang I miss you, I forget you, I love youbut his performance was not much appreciated: he scored only 70 points.
Then it was the turn of Lucía Belén Báez, from González Catán, with the theme Don’t think so important and reached 95 points.
the first eliminated
So at the end of the first round, Gaspar Gigena was left out of the competition.
Already in the second stage of the final, Facu Martínez played Thorny heart and scored lower than in his first performance – 83 points.
After him, Dámaris Sully returned to the stage, giving an excellent interpretation of Loving woman, the song of the white mouse. Deeply moved, she finally hugged Marcelo, expressing her joy as well as his anxiety. Dámaris received 100 points and the entire judging panel stood up to applaud the singer, who couldn’t stop crying.
Lucía Belén Báez sang next That’s how it went. And when he finished, he allowed himself the luxury of a little revenge: “There’s someone who told me ‘you’re not going anywhere’, and here I am”.
It was the moment when Patricia Sosa -he too part of the jury- expressed his emotion and shared a memory with him: “In 1982, at the Buenos Aires Rock, they wanted me to get off the stage and they told me: ‘little musicians, get off’. I know very well how much it costs to be a woman and be able to earn a place”.
Báez scored 93 points and became a finalist.
Two women for one prize
“For the first time two women reach the final,” announced Marcelo Tinelli.
Dámaris started singing her last song first: I want to never see you again, popularized by Valeria Lynch. When she finished singing the last verse, she collapsed on the floor, she knelt down and burst into tears. “I can’t believe it,” Damaris said. And she continued: “I I thought I didn’t make it past the first round”.
Then came Lucía Belén Báez’s latest song. The mariachi – as he was known in the contest, as he is the voice of a group that makes Mexican music – sang i forgot againof mana
An excited Tinelli
“We are finishing the program. Before wrapping up and meeting the winner, I want to congratulate both of you, They are a true example of the power of women. Two wonderful women, with tremendous liver and ovaries”, Marcelo Tinelli told them before announcing the result of the public vote to the two participants who had reached the last stage of the competition.
And I add: “I would like them both to winI swear, I wish I could raise one arm with one arm and the other with the other, they won’t give me arms, but I wish it would happen,” the driver added ironically, who first had words of thanks for the rest of the participants , for the jury and for the channel authorities.
When it came to voting, the audience was energetic. “There is a winner,” announced Marcelo Tinelli, and as the two contestants waited in each other’s arms and anxiously, the driver announced that the winner was Dámaris Sully, with 63% of the public votewho chose live.
The street singer thus became champion of the second edition of sing with me now Y he took the 10 million pesos.
Puma Rodríguez, as president of the jury, presented her with the award: “You have won, you are a winner. The public has chosen for you. Blessed be God, who gave you this way to make a living, but no longer in the street, but in another place”. Y nicholas queenthe young catamaran winner of the first edition of the competition was in charge of delivering the check for ten million.
Then there were scraps of paper and celebration and crying.
Manuel Witzone of the prominent musicians of the jury, is the director of the third edition of sing with me nowwhich has already begun to be recorded, but it is not yet known when it will hit the screens of El Trece.
Meanwhile Marcello Tinelli ends his contract with the station on December 31 and there is still no certainty about what his future will be in TV, despite having announced that he will continue to produce and host programs.
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Source: Clarin
