AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1996
| AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1996 | |
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| 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 |
| Winning song | "Something Isn't Right Here" by Three Grand |
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 won by Three Grand with the song "Something Isn't Right Here" representing Bristol. This is the third time that Bristol won after doing so previously in 1960 and 1975. This is also the longest time that a region had to wait for another wait, where Bristol had to wait 21 years before they can win again. Bristol's win also means that since 1996, all six regions of North Alezia had won the AleziRadio Festival of Songs at least three times. Zafizamarrah finished the podium with all of its entries, earning its' fourteenth second place and its' eleventh third place.
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 |
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| 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 |
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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
Islan Hafizzi who commentates the event for the Zafizamarranian Arabic broadcast also reads the results of the second Zafizamarranian jury.
| 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 | Victoria |
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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 "Met Them, The Person from the Ammarusayn" by Leydi Khalqis from 1948
| No. | Region | Singer | Song | Translation | Language | Place | Points |
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| 01 | Zafizamarrah | ARCADIA | قريبا جدا؟ | So Soon? | Arabic | 2 | 142 |
| 02 | Daya Island | Elkii Kaaruvinen | Muuttaa Mieleni | Change My Mind | Finnish | 12 | 28 |
| 03 | Aramna | Tanalessa Danayanie* | Nirvana | -none- | Aramnan | 4 | 83 |
| 04 | Daya Island | Chicha Naavalainen | Tiedän mitä teet | I Know What You'll Do | Finnish | 10 | 43 |
| 05 | Basna | Ali Hasmaruddin | Mata | Eye | Indonesian | 6 | 59 |
| 06 | Bristol | Jennie Carlson | Withering | -none- | English | 14 | 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 | 3 | 101 |
| 09 | Basna | Janda | Tidak Ada Lagi | Nothing Anymore | Indonesian | 13 | 23 |
| 10 | Pantabang Islands | Benny Ida'ou Dadon | Pi'ili'kino | Personality | Alezian | 17 | 3 |
| 11 | Pantabang Islands | Tedjo Kalkanu'i Salem | Hoiho'ai ia'u | Interest Me | Alezian | 16 | 9 |
| 12 | Aramna | Samuel Coultenndavers | Commasais | As I Am | Aramnan | 11 | 38 |
| 13 | Mosin-Nagan | Danov, Richi, and Kakan | Თქვი რამე | Say Something | Georgian | 7 | 58 |
| 14 | Mosin-Nagan | Ilkana Marvin | Როდესაც ყველაფერი მორჩება | When It's All Over | Georgian | 8 | 51 |
| 15 | Pyalivostok | Sydney Kakanova | Эти желтые поля | Those Yellow Fields | Russian | 15 | 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 | 9 | 45 |
| 18 | Tel Hadiv | Maria Kashvegal | כאילו זה האחרון שלך | As if it's your Last | Hebrew | 5 | 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 | ||
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| 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 |