AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1993

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1993
Dates
Final	16th of May 1993
Host
Venue	Crystalia, Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, ZF
Presenter(s)	Andi Haryani Tenriattang
Musical director	Nazaruddin Alfizahruddin
Directed by	Ayfa Ruhaimana
Executive supervisor	Elzan Iskandaruddina
Executive producer	Alkandarin 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
Winning song	" دعني أكون " by Mika'il

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1993 is the thirty-sixth edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition was held as usual in 16th of May 1993 by the authorities of Radio Zafizamarrah. This is the thirteenth time that Zafizamarrah and the eleventh time that Metropolitan Zafizamarrah hosted the competition after the victory of Andi Haryani Tenriattang representing Zafizamarrah with the song "العمروسين". She also did the presentation of the show.

The contest was won by Mika'il with the song " دعني أكون " representing Zafizamarrah. It was the region's thirteenth victory and the fourth time that it won back to back, as of 1993, only Zafizamarrah and Basna has won twice in a row. Both Basnaharian entries filled the second and third place, which is the first time that a region has successfully put both of its entries on the top three since Tel Hadiv did it in 1982. It's also Basna's first time earning third place.

The festival was organized by the authorities of Radio Zafizamarrah and took place in Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, which is the capital of both the region of Zafizamarrah and the whole nation of North Alezia itself. Around this time, it's experiencing a population and economic boom, as foreign bussiness started flocking into the country after 5 years of openness.

This festival is the first festival and the first AleziRadio Television and Radio Production to be sponsored by a foreign company, in which Coca Cola sponsored the event in return of earning a permit to open a factory in North Alezia. (The factory would end up resulting in creating a new community outside of Metropolitan Zafizamarrah called "Al Makamira" or more known as "Coca-Cola Alezia". The company would continue sponsoring the show as 20% of its payment to the Alezian government from 1993 up to 1998.

The foreign sponsorship also inspires a change in the logo's language of the festival, where Coca Cola proposed a much more "modern" styling which prompted a new design by Ahlazanuuri Yalbari, a popular Alezian graphical designer.

The festival was held in the newly-built (at the time) Crystalia, which is a performing arts centre with a glass exterior which was an architectural marvel at the time, where critics applauded the building for its "interior and exterior creativity and harmony". The venue can hold 2,748 people with an orchestra pit and a scrutineer table located on the sides of the interior of the main theatre. Crystalia would end up being demolished in 2016 due to safety concern after an incident where the northern side of the glass walls got broken off nearly entirely.

Bonni Kalvin returned to the festival after earning third place last year representing Daya Island

Notable Happenings

Mukhlis Krasnaya Novogrody's Absence

Usually, the governing Premier of North Alezia would attend the year's AleziRadio Festival of Songs. This tradition has been held since 1958 until this year. Unusual for the premier at the time, his attendance was represented by the Speaker of the North Alezian parliament at the time, Nuharizi Yaflandarin.

The reason of Mukhlis' failure to attend was due to him being at Indonesia for a state visit. In his place, Mukhlis did a pre-recorded speech before the interval act. In the speech, Mukhlis apologized for his absence and talked about five years of Democracy in North Alezia and his hopes for its continuation and for it to be supported through music.

"Basna Menangis Melihatmu"

In 18th of January 1993, a sudden earthquake slams Basna, which created devastation in the region as it was the worst earthquake that have struck Alezia since 1834. It's possible that Mukhlis' absence from the year's festival was due to him in Indonesia trying to ask for disaster relief aid.

The disaster nearly forced the cancellation of the AleziRadio Festival of Songs and even more nearly pushed for Basna's withdrawal from that year's festival. However, Basnaharians wrote a petition that Basna still had to compete in grounds of "Preserverance"

As a reaction to the disaster, one of the singers that was selected to represent Basna after a regional final held on 17th of December 1992 named Niyaura Andarinda decided to ask Radio Basna Raya and her fellow same-region competitor Indah Wati Putri (Stagename "Rahmapoetri") to help her write a song about it which would end up being "Basna Menangis Melihatmu" which means "Basna Cries Looking At You".

The song would end up being the favourite to win the Festival and considered as one of the best songs to ever competed in the festival. However, at the night of the festival, the song end up being 10 points behind the eventual winner. This resulted in accusation of fraud by some ARFOS fans while other fans defended Mika'il's victory, however, it was found that the votes allocated were indeed correct.

Mika'il would end up respond to the drama by saying that "While I won the festival, it's undeniable that Niyaura would have a better music future than I would ever reach." Both songs were deemed as two of the ten best songs to ever be sung in ARFOS. And due to this, ARFOS 1993 has been constantly nominated and awarded three times as "The Best AleziRadio Festival of Songs of All Time" .

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Basna	Soeradi
Zafizamarrah	Andi Ansari
Pyalivostok	Lilyouna Dariyeva
Tel Hadiv	Marigold Hoffmann
Mosin-Nagan	Nerishtaura Immiranur
Bristol	Walter Shawn
Aramna	Misha Roubennais
Pantabang Islands	Lillea Aurie Dadon
Daya Island	Yalta Naaminen

Commentators

Region	Radio Broadcaster	Commentators
NATIONWIDE	AleziRadio	English: Azlain Hamisyan (AR-P1), Anria Marindaruddin (AR-TV1) Arabic : Mukhlis Hasdar (AR-P2), Nur Hasan Yusril (AR-TV1, broadcasted a day after the live competition)
Zafizamarrah	Radio Zafizamarrah	Arabic: Islan Haffizi (RZ-P1) Buginese: Andi Muhammad Yuzhari (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 : Dorothy Oxford-Anne (RRB) French : Alfonso Roubin (RFrB)
Pyalivostok	Radio Pyalivostok	Russian : Yovleyin Dabarnova (RP)
Basna	Radio Basna Raya	Indonesian : Isanda Ruhamaina (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 : Malko Yanselund (RP / DS / Svensk)
Aramna	Araminhaes Radioues	Aramnan : Ennie Loulavais (ARR)

Spokepersons

The Zafizamarranian votes were read on stage as a "surprise"

Region	Domicile	Spokespersons
Basna	Basna Kota	Isma'iluddin Salahuddin Marwahadi
Pyalivostok	Pyalivostokgrad	Zawarin Nelsonskovich Ibel Souzielyova
Zafizamarrah	Metropolitan Zafizamarrah	Andi Hazul Azulaini Intan Nairi
Bristol	Saint-Rouberts au Deuxieme	James Wattingham Elliot Saluier
Pantabang Islands	Bucinnois	Kalinda Da'udanda Salem Irlene A'uka'we'i Dadon
Tel Hadiv	Tel Hadiv	Meshrina Aveshner Albert Goldweissman
Daya Island	Aaren	Lisa Karkoinen Benjamin Voljanen
Mosin-Nagan	Trishi	Svikovi Rabanshvili Edelvessa Karinayan
Aramna	Las Araminhaes	Bourlie Darlainais Laisliendaiz Houbrenie

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 "My Baby, My Alezian Baby", which was originally sung and composed by Hari Daeraifi in 1950

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Zafizamarrah	Dari Gaulina	تفهم	Understand	Arabic	5	81
02	Pyalivostok	GENESIS	Бытие	Genesis	Russian	13	22
03	Daya Island	Bonni Kalvin	Voi voi, älä yritä valehdella	Oh my, Don't Try to Lie	Finnish	17	2
04	Zafizamarrah	Mika'il	دعني أكون	Leave Me Be	Arabic	1	172
05	Mosin-Nagan	Ida Kaldanari	ცდილობს დაამტკიცოს	Trying to Prove	Georgian	9	37
06	Aramna	Herrirea Naouvan	Tou tais	You Will	Aramnan	10	36
07	Pyalivostok	Aziz Mehmedinovich	Я не ненавижу тебя	I Don't Hate You	Russian	18	0
08	Tel Hadiv	Hakeshvet	מאוחר מדי להגיד סליחה	Too Late to Say Sorry	Hebrew	8	42
09	Pantabang Islands	Tropicana	Brazil	-none-	Alezian	11	33
10	Daya Island	Maja	Så långt som min båt går	As Far as My Boat Goes	Swedish	16	8
11	Aramna	Iderline Cabeindez	Mister	-none-	Aramnan	4	94
12	Basna	Ratnapoetri	Akhir	End	Indonesian	3	101
13	Mosin-Nagan	Neza Yaqqarindauri	კატასტროფის პრევენცია	Preventing Disaster	Georgian	7	44
14	Pantabang Islands	Be'ukani A'uranda Dadon	Ami'e'i	Friend	Alezian	12	28
15	Basna	Niyaura Andarinda*	Basna Menangis Melihatmu	Basna Cried Looking at You	Indonesian	2	162
16	Bristol	James Archings	Emotionally Stable	-none-	English	15	11
17	Bristol	Cannes	The Side I'm In	-none-	English	6	50
18	Tel Hadiv	Heshel Makolim	מְשַׁעֲמֵם	Boring	Hebrew	14	13

Voting by Region

	ZF-1	ZF-2	PY-1	PY-2	DI-1	DI-2	MN-1	MN-2	AR-1	AR-2	TH-1	TH-2	PI-1	PI-2	BN-1	BN-2	BR-1	BR-2		ZF-1	ZF-2	PY-1	PY-2	DI-1	DI-2	MN-1	MN-2	AR-1	AR-2	TH-1	TH-2	PI-1	PI-2	BN-1	BN-2	BR-1	BR-2		TOTAL
تفهم	XX	XX						1		10	10	5	1			7				XX	XX	5		1	10			7	1		1			10		5	7		81
Бытие		7	XX	XX								1				5	5				3	XX	XX										1						22
Voi voi, älä yritä valehdella	1				XX	XX																		XX	XX									1					2
دعني أكون	XX	XX	3	10			7	3	10		5	7		10	10	10	10	5		XX	XX			7		10	5	5	5	10	10	1	7	7	3	7	5		172
ცდილობს დაამტკიცოს		3		7		7	XX	XX						3	7							7		3		XX	XX												37
Tou Tais		10				10	1	5	XX	XX															1	1		XX	XX	7						1			36
Я не ненавижу тебя			XX	XX																		XX	XX																0
מאוחר מדי להגיד סליחה	5					3			5		XX	XX	10	5						3			5				3			XX	XX			3					42
Brazil			1			1			1				XX	XX				7					7			5		1			5	XX	XX		5				33
Så långt som min båt går			1	XX	XX				3										1			3	XX	XX															8
Mister		5	5		1		10	7	XX	XX	3	3				3				7	5	3		10	3			XX	XX	3		3	5	5	10	3			94
Akhir	7		7	5	10		3						5	7	XX	XX				10	7	10					7	10				10		XX	XX		3		101
კატასტროფის პრევენცია							XX	XX		1				1				10					10	5		XX	XX		10						7				44
Ami'e'i		1				5			7				XX	XX	3	1	1	1								3				5		XX	XX		1				28
Basna Menangis Melihatmu	10		10		7		5			7	7	10	7		XX	XX	7	3		5	10				7	7	10	3	7		3	7	10	XX	XX	10	10		162
Emotionally Stable					3						1				1		XX	XX			1		1				1		3							XX	XX		11
The Side I'm In				3	5			10	3	5			3		5		XX	XX												1	7	5	3			XX	XX		50
מְשַׁעֲמֵם	3										XX	XX					3					1			5					XX	XX						1		13