AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1993
| AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1993 | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| NATIONWIDE | AleziRadio |
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| Zafizamarrah | Radio Zafizamarrah |
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| Pantabang Islands | Radio Zafizamarrah / Pa'ana'taba'angi |
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| Tel Hadiv | Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu |
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| Bristol | Royal Radio of Bristol |
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| Pyalivostok | Radio Pyalivostok |
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| Basna | Radio Basna Raya |
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| Mosin-Nagan | Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan |
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| Daya Island | Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari |
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| Aramna | Araminhaes Radioues |
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Spokepersons
The Zafizamarranian votes were read on stage as a "surprise"
| Region | Domicile | Spokespersons |
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| Basna | Basna Kota |
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| Pyalivostok | Pyalivostokgrad |
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| Zafizamarrah | Metropolitan Zafizamarrah |
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| Bristol | Saint-Rouberts au Deuxieme |
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| Pantabang Islands | Bucinnois |
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| Tel Hadiv | Tel Hadiv |
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| Daya Island | Aaren |
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| Mosin-Nagan | Trishi |
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| Aramna | Las Araminhaes |
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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 |
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 |