Venezuela in the OTI Festival

Venezuela with their three OTI member stations: RCTV, Venevisión and Venezolana de Televisión debuted in the OTI Song Contest in 1972 in Madrid when the festival was held for the first time.

Venezuela
Member station	RCTV Venevisión Venezolana de Televisión
National selection events	Internal selection
Participation summary
Appearances	27
First appearance	1972
Best result	1st in 1982 1st in 1987
Worst result	21st in 1989
Nul points	In 1989
External links
Venezolana de Televisión Website Venevisión Website RCTV Website

History

This country won the festival on two occasions, the first one in 1982 with the teenage boy band Unicornio performing the song "Puedes contar conmigo" (You can count on me).[1] The second Venezuelan victory came in 1987 in Lisbon with Alfredo Alejandro, who performed the song "La felicidad esá en un rincón de tu corazón" (The happiness is inside a corner of your heart).

Apart from their victories, the South American country got two second places in 1976 and 1979 and three third places in 1974, 1975 and 1994.[2]

Many Venezuelan singers well known in all Latin America, such as Jose Luis Rodríguez El Puma, her daughter Lilibeth Morillo, Mirla Castellanos, and Delia Dorta represented their country in the OTI Festival with successful participations.

Venezuela hosted the contest in 1979. The venue of the festival was the Bolivarian Army Circle Theatre of Caracas and the presenters were Eduardo Serrano and Carmen Victoria Pérez, who presented the event in a golden and blue colored stage. The opening theme of this edition of the festival was an orchestral fantasy based on the hymn, "Alma llanera".

Contestants

Mirla Castellanos was the very first Venezuelan representative in the OTI Festival

Maria Teresa Chacín represented her country in the OTI festival in 1983.

Jose Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" represented Venezuela in the OTI festival in 1974

Year	Artist	Song	Place	Points
1972	Mirla Castellanos	Sueños de cristal y miel (Crystal and honey dreams)	4º	6
1973	Mayra Marti	Poema para el olvido (Poem for oblivion)	9º	3
1974	Jose Luis Rodríguez	Vuelve (Return)	3º	11
1975	Mirla Castellanos	Soy como el viento, soy como el mar (I'm like the wind, I'm like the sea)	3º	10
1976	Las cuatro monedas	Soy (I am)	2º	13
1977	Héctor José	Iberoamérica toda (All Iberoamerica)	6º	3
1978	Nancy Ramos	Con la suerte a mi favor (With the luck by my side)	15º	2
1979	Delia Dorta	Cuando era niño (When he was a kid)	2º	33
1980	Héctor Cabrera	Haces bien (You did it well)	16º	8
1981	Neyda Pedromo	Aquel ciego (That blind man)	17º	7
1982	Unicornio	Puedes contar conmigo (You can count on me)	1º	43
1983	Maria Teresa Chacín	Esperanza Americana (American hope)	4º	_
1984	José Antonio García	Ilusión de un soñador (Ilussion of a dreamer)	8º	_
1985	Doris Hernández	El primer vuelo (The first flight)	7º	_
1986	Nilda López	Un nuevo amanecer (A new sunrise)	18º	_
1987	Alfredo Alejandro	La felicidad está en un rincón de tu corazón (The happiness is inside a corner of your heart)	1º	_
1988	Iñaki	Hoy he vuelto a reír (Today I have laughed again)	14º	_
1989	Salvador Pino	Caras perdidas (Lost faces)	21º	_
1990	Lilibeth Morillo	Ser mujer (To be a woman)	12º	_
1991	Jesús Alfredo Ruiz	Podría ser (It could be)	8º	_
1992	Karolina	Sueños (Dream)	14º	_
1993	Nicolás Felizola	No me arriesgo (I won't risk)	4º	_
1994	Luis Silva	Enfurecida (Furious woman)[3]	3º	_
1995	Rogelio Ortiz	El viaje (The voyage)	9º	_
1996	Dina	Junto a tu boca (Next to your mouth)	4º	_
1997	Felix valentino	Nada igual que tu amor (Nothing like your love)	4º	_
1998	Asdruval Astudillo	Más allá (Further away)	sf 11	_
2000	Mary Olga Rodríguez	Yo cantante (I'm a singer)	sf 14	_

References

1. "NOTICIAS: FALLECIÓ EX-INTEGRANTE DEL GRUPO UNICORNIO". 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
2. "Recordar es vivir: Venezuela en la OTI. Por María Laura Marrero". venezuelactiva.com. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
3. "Luis Silva – CORAZON LLANERO". corazonllanero.com.ve (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-06-13.