AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1996

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1996
Dates
Final	16th of May 1996
Host
Venue	Sultan Mahmud Performing Arts Centre, Mahmuddayn, ZF
Presenter(s)	Mika'il Sanjaya and Arinika Yanni
Musical director	Aziz Khalasayn
Directed by	Muharram Yara'im
Executive supervisor	Khadarim Syaufarin
Executive producer	Alkandari Hasyim
Host broadcaster	Radio Zafizamarrah
Participants
Number of entries	18
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends two juries and two public votes where each votes 1,3,5,7, and 10 for the best 5 songs

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1996 is the thirty-ninth edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition was held as usual in 16th of May 1996 by the authorities of Radio Zafizamarrah. This is the fifteenth time that the region of Zafizamarrah hosted the competition after the victory of Arfin and The Four representing Zafizamarrah with the song "على ماذا حصلت؟".

The festival was once again organized by the authorities of Radio Zafizamarrah. However, the authorities took an unusual (albeit not rare) decision to not host the competition in Metropolitan Zafizamarrah. In this case, Radio Zafizamarrah holds a bidding round to the outlying interested cities. In the bidding process, three cities were shortlisted: Mahmuddayn, Iskandaruddin, and Nafizarran. In the process, Mahmuddayn was selected.

Mahmuddayn is the fifth largest city in the region of Zafizamarrah as of 1996 (as of 2021, it's the seventh) with the population of 263,222 according to 1996 census. Located on the coast of the the southern North Alezia, It used to be a vacation spot for the Sultanate's family where every summer, the family would visit the place from the beginning of their reign until European colonization. From the Europeans' era, the town developed into a tourist spot. However, during the Iliyan Dictatorship's reign, the town lost it's tourism status until the democracy era arrived. Since then, Mahmuddayn regathered it's tourism town status and is currently (as of 2021) the 9th most visited city in North Alezia and 17th in the newly reunified Alezian Union.

The venue selected for the event is the Sultan Mahmud Performing Arts Centre. The name of the centre came from the shortest-reigning and the only male to ever be the Sultan of Zafizamarrah. Before it's renovation in 1997, the centre has a seating of 2,654 people. The centre does not have an orchestra pit, and such one had to be made on the center of the stage behind the performers.

Double back-to-back 6th placer Jennie Carlson returned representing her region of Bristol once again, creating banter speculation that Jennie was going to earn 6th place again. Elkii Kaaruvinen who got second last year also returned representing Daya Island.

Tanalessa Danayanie who represented Aramna and got 14th place in the 1970 festival also returned representing her region again. And more surprisingly, Ali Hasmaruddin returned to the competition after previously competing representing Basna in the first edition of the festival back in 1958 and earning 9th place.

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Soeradi was supposed to conduct the Basnaharian entries for the 1996 festival. However, he was hospitalized due to overexhaustion, and thus, Ismail Dariniyaddin was selected to take over Soeradi's place on conducting.

Region	Conductor
Basna	Ismail Dariniyaddin
Zafizamarrah	Andi Ansari
Pyalivostok	Benzema Lakashivich
Tel Hadiv	Dnerash Abikoshev
Mosin-Nagan	Isa Nagavishan
Bristol	Walter Shawn
Aramna	Misha Roubennais
Pantabang Islands	Lillea Aurie Dadon
Daya Island	Yalta Naaminen

Commentators

Region	Radio Broadcaster	Commentators
NATIONWIDE	AleziRadio	English: Azza Ruzindari (AR-P1), Anria Marindaruddin (AR-TV1) Arabic : Farah Al Fattaharin (AR-P2), Nur Hasan Yusril (AR-TV1, broadcasted a day after the live competition)
Zafizamarrah	Radio Zafizamarrah	Arabic: Islan Haffizi (RZ-P1) Buginese: Andi Zahranita Narinda (RZ-PB)
Pantabang Islands	Radio Zafizamarrah / Pa'ana'taba'angi	Alezian : Ya'en Rama'i Dadon (RZ/P A) Dutch : Aalsterijk Sa'i'ue'i Salem (RZ/P Nederlandse)
Tel Hadiv	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu	Hebrew : Sheila Rayeshmaim (RTH-Y-P1)
Bristol	Royal Radio of Bristol	English : Michael Carl (RRB) French : Alfonso Roubin (RFrB)
Pyalivostok	Radio Pyalivostok	Russian : Yovleyin Dabarnova (RP)
Basna	Radio Basna Raya	Indonesian : Nissa Roukindayan (RBR)
Mosin-Nagan	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan	Georgian : Berlyan Madanoshvili (RTH-Y / MN)
Daya Island	Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari	Finnish : Lisa Koorvinen (RP / DS) Swedish : Endive (RP / DS / Svensk)
Aramna	Araminhaes Radioues	Aramnan : Ennie Loulavais (ARR)

Spokepersons

Islan Hafizzi who commentates the event for the Zafizamarranian Arabic broadcast also reads the results of the second Zafizamarranian jury.

Region	Domicile	Spokespersons
Basna	Basna Kota	Isma'iluddin Hazar Alwadi
Pyalivostok	Pyalivostokgrad	Danijel Kalovich Ibel Souzielyova
Zafizamarrah	Metropolitan Zafizamarrah	Andi Hazul Azulaini Islan Hafizzi
Bristol	Victoria	Eddie Hayne Elliot Macquerel
Pantabang Islands	Bucinnois	Kalinda Da'udanda Salem Irlene A'uka'we'i Dadon
Tel Hadiv	Tel Hadiv	Meshrina Aveshner Albert Goldweissman
Daya Island	Aaren	Miisa Kulvalainen Bonni Kalvin
Mosin-Nagan	Trishi	Sinnadi Rabanshvili Danika Kalvinayan
Aramna	Las Araminhaes	Bourlie Darlainais Marielle Houren

Participating Entries and Results

• "*" = the singer won the Independence Award which was held the day before the competition.
• The song for the Independence Award for the year was "Met Them, The Person from the Ammarusayn" by Leydi Khalqis from 1948

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Zafizamarrah	ARCADIA	قريبا جدا؟	So Soon?	Arabic		142
02	Daya Island	Elkii Kaaruvinen	Muuttaa Mieleni	Change My Mind	Finnish		28
03	Aramna	Tanalessa Danayanie	Nirvana	-none-	Aramnan		83
04	Daya Island	Chicha Naavalainen	Tiedän mitä teet	I Know What You'll Do	Finnish		43
05	Basna	Ali Hasmaruddin	Mata	Eye	Indonesian		59
06	Bristol	Jennie Carlson	Withering	-none-	English		21
07	Bristol	Three Grand	Something Isn't Right Here	-none	English	1	147
08	Zafizamarrah	Muhammad Rismaruddin	أنا لست ضد ذلك	I'm Not Against It	Arabic		101
09	Basna	Janda	Tidak Ada Lagi	Nothing Anymore	Indonesian		23
10	Pantabang Islands	Benny Ida'ou Dadon	Pi'ili'kino	Personality	Alezian		3
11	Pantabang Islands	Tedjo Kalkanu'i Salem	Hoiho'ai ia'u	Interest Me	Alezian		9
12	Aramna	Samuel Coultenndavers	Commasais	As I Am	Aramnan		38
13	Mosin-Nagan	Danov, Richi, and Kakan	Თქვი რამე	Say Something	Georgian		58
14	Mosin-Nagan	Ilkana Marvin	Როდესაც ყველაფერი მორჩება	When It's All Over	Georgian		51
15	Pyalivostok	Sydney Kakanova	Эти желтые поля	Those Yellow Fields	Russian		14
16	Pyalivostok	Edin Halkavich	Не	Don't	Russian	18	1
17	Tel Hadiv	Kabesh Davachon	אם כבר מדברים על שקרים...	Speaking of Lies	Hebrew		45
18	Tel Hadiv	Maria Kashvegal	כאילו זה האחרון שלך	As if it's your Last	Hebrew		70

Voting by Region

	ZF-1	ZF-2	DI-1	DI-2	AR-1	AR-2	BN-1	BN-2	BR-1	BR-2	PI-1	PI-2	MN-1	MN-2	PY-1	PY-2	TH-1	TH-2		ZF-1	ZF-2	DI-1	DI-2	AR-1	AR-2	BN-1	BN-2	BR-1	BR-2	PI-1	PI-2	MN-1	MN-2	PY-1	PY-2	TH-1	TH-2	TOTAL
قريبا جدا؟	XX	XX		10		5	3			10		10	10	10	5	7	5	3		XX	XX	10	10	5	5	7	3		5		5	3	3			7	1	142
Muuttaa Mieleni	1		XX	XX			1			3		7	3					10				XX	XX	3														28
Nirvana	5			1	XX	XX	7	5						7	10			5		7	7			XX	XX		1	10	7				10			1		83
Tiedän mitä teet			XX	XX	3						1				7					10		XX	XX					7		10	3	1	1					43
Mata		3	3			10	XX	XX	10			3	1	5	3		3				1					XX	XX	1	10	3				3				59
Withering								3	XX	XX		5					1						1			3		XX	XX				5			3		21
Something Isn't Right Here	10	10			7		5	7	XX	XX	10		5				10	7		5	10				10		7	XX	XX		10	7	7	7	3	10		147
أنا لست ضد ذلك	XX	XX		7		3	10		7	5										XX	XX	7	7	7		5			3	5		10		5	5	5	10	101
Tidak Ada Lagi			7	5	10		XX	XX												1						XX	XX											23
Pi'ili'kino											XX	XX		3																XX	XX							3
Hoiho'ai ia'u								1	1		XX	XX												1				5		XX	XX			1				9
Commasais		7			XX	XX		10			5	1	7											XX	XX	1											7	38
Თქვი რამე				3		7					7		XX	XX	1	5		1			5	3			7					7		XX	XX		7		5	58
Როდესაც ყველაფერი მორჩება	3		5										XX	XX		3	7						5		3	10	5				7	XX	XX				3	51
Эти желтые поля	7				1					1				1	XX	XX				3		1												XX	XX			14
Не															XX	XX									1									XX	XX			1
אם כבר מדברים על שקרים...		1	10			1			3		3					1	XX	XX			3	5								1	1	5		10	1	XX	XX	45
כאילו זה האחרון שלך		5	1		5				5	7						10	XX	XX					3	10			10	3	1						10	XX	XX	70