This year Spain has chosen Chanel as its representative on Eurovision 2022 that will take place in Turin this month with the song “SloMo”. But who is Chanel? In this article you will have the opportunity to know more about Spain’s singer for Eurovision 2022.
About Chanel
Chanel was born in Havana (Cuba) in 1991 and moved to Spain, more specifically to a village in Barcelona when she was three years old. Since she was nine years old she has received singing, acting and ballet lessons from teachers as important as Victor Ullate, Coco Comín and Gloria Gella.
After moving to Madrid, she began her career in musical theatre, participating in shows such as Mamma Mia!, The Bodyguard and The Lion King.
His first approach to music and the stage came in 2012 with the group Co Co Gua Gua. But where she really took off was when she was able to be Shakira’s dancer at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Her career has included several appearances on the small and big screen with appearances in “El rey de la Habana”, “La Llorona” and “Águila Roja” among others.
Chanel has said about herself that since she was born, she is the owner of her actions and an empowered woman and that for her, performing at the Eurovision Song Contest is a dream come true and she wants to go all out to make the public enjoy the art so that they have a good time and it is reciprocated.
The song “SloMo” is a Latin pop and reggaeton song with which Chanel will try to win the crystal microphone on 14 May. For this, the singer has surrounded herself with composers (Leroy Sánchez, Keith Harris, Ibere Fortes and Maggie Szabos) who have worked with other world-class artists such as Madonna, Mariah Carey or Britney Spears, Jennifer López’s choreographer or Alejandro Gómez Palomo’s wardrobe.
Lyrics
Let’s go
Llegó la mami
La reina, la dura, una Bugatti
El mundo ‘tá loco con este body
Si tengo un problema, no es monetary
Les vuelvo loquito’ a todos los daddie’
Voy siempre primera, nunca secondary
Apena’ hago doom, doom con mi boom, boom
Y le’ tengo dando zoom, zoom on my yummy
Y no se confundan, señora’ y señore’
Yo siempre estoy ready pa’ romper cadera’, romper corazones
Solo existe una, no hay imitacione’ (na, na)
Y si aún no me creen pue’ me toca mostrárselo
Take a video, watch it slow mo, mo, mo, mo, mo (yeah)
Booty hypnotic, make you want more, more, more, more, more
Voy a bajarlo hasta el suelo-lo-lo-lo-lo (yeah)
If the way I shake it to this dembow (to this dembow)
Drives you loco (yeah)
Take a video, watch it slow mo
Te gusta to’ lo que tengo
te endulzo la cara en jugo de mango
Se te dispara cuando la prendo
Hasta el final, yo no me detengo
Take a sip of my cola-la
Ponte salvaje, na-na-na
Make it go like pa-pa-pa-pa
Like pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
Y no se confundan (y no se confundan), señora’ y señore’
Yo siempre estoy ready (yo siempre estoy ready) pa’ romper cadera’, romper corazones (ah)
Solo existe una (solo existe una), no hay imitacione’ (na, na, na)
Y si aún no me creen pue’ me toca mostrárselo (oye)
Take a video, watch it slow mo, mo, mo, mo, mo
Booty hypnotic, make you want more, more, more, more, more
Voy a bajarlo hasta el suelo-lo-lo-lo-lo
If the way I shake it to this dembow (to this dembow)
Drives you loco (yeah)
Take a video, watch it slow mo, mo, mo, mo, mo
Booty hypnotic, make you want more, more, more, more, more
Voy a bajarlo hasta el suelo-lo-lo-lo-lo
If the way I shake it to this dembow (to this dembow)
Drives you loco (yeah)
Y no se confundan (y no se confundan), señora’ y señore’
Yo siempre estoy ready (yo siempre estoy ready) pa’ romper cadera’, romper corazones (oh)
Solo existe una (solo existe una), no hay imitacione’ (na, na, na)
Y si aún no me creen pue’ me toca mostrárselo (oh-yeah)
Take a video, watch it slow mo, mo, mo, mo, mo
Booty hypnotic, make you want more, more, more, more, more
Voy a bajarlo hasta el suelo-lo-lo-lo-lo
If the way I shake it to this dembow (a este dembow)
Drives you loco (yeah)
Take a video, watch it slow mo
Spain in Eurovision
Spain first appeared in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961 in Cannes and came back to every Contest since, becoming the country to participate the most number of times in a row since their debut without skipping an edition.
Spain won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1968 with the song La, La, La and Massiel. Curiously, she wasn’t meant to be performer in Eurovision in London that year. The Catalan singer Joan Manuel Serrat was the original artist choice, but a couple of weeks before the contest he confessed his intentions to sing the song in Catalan instead of Spanish, something that was banned by the Franco-regime in Spain. He was quickly replaced and the young female rising star Massiel was rushed to the Royal Albert Hall where she pipped the UK home entry at the post, Cliff Richard’s Congratulations, by only one point.
Spain became the first country to win the Eurovision Song Contest twice in succession in both 1968 and 1969. Spain hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in the capital Madrid in 1969.