Four verses and three choruses were enough for Massiel won first prize at Eurovision. But when this happened, Spain had already been participating in the musical contest for seven years. Spain’s Eurovision thing wasn’t exactly arriving and kissing the saint. The first time he participated was in 1961, when the contest was celebrating its sixth edition. So, Conchita Bautistaa 24-year-old young woman from Seville, sang the legendary Being with you achieving a ninth position. Four years later, she repeated as representative. This time from Italy with a So good so good!a song that came in fifteenth place, being the worst recorded so far.

Bringing the same representative to Eurovision was popular then, since the young Conchita was not the only one to attend the contest twice. Raphael took the Eurovision stage the following two years, in 1966 and 1967. On the first occasion he took seventh place thanks to his I am that and in the second he achieved a sixth position, by singing Let’s talk about love in Vienna. But the two performances took a backseat when in 1968 Massiel won Spain’s first first prize at Eurovision. This first time was marked by a last-minute change of plans. The truth is that Massiel was not going to be the representative of Spain at first but rather the responsibility was going to fall on the Catalan singer. Joan Manuel Serrat. However, the artist had to give up singing two weeks before the contest because he could not do it in Catalan.

After Massiel’s triumph, a year later, the country revalidated the award with the help of Salomewith the theme I live singing. Spain then set a record: being the first country to win Eurovision twice in a row. But there is a ‘small’ nuance here. It turns out that in 1969 there were four winning countries. That year the contest was held in Madrid for the first time, given that the previous year Spain took first place. It was a celebration of firsts in which, for the first time, there were four winners as four countries tied in scores. France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom scored 18 points and were all declared winners.

Since that occasion, Spain has not won the first prize medal again, although it has come close. Karina came close to first place with in a new world in 1971. Mocedades also stayed at the gates with It’s you, in 1973; Betty Missiego, six years later with Your song and Anabel Conde with Come back with mein 1995. Thus, the last closest ‘joy’ was that of Chanel Terrero last year, when her Slomo achieved third place, a position that Spain had only occupied once with Bravo with Lady, lady. The ‘chanelazo’ has gone down in history. We will have to wait until Sunday to see if Nebulossa returns to give another historic result. It won’t be for amulets.