OTI Festival 1981

OTI Festival 1981
Dates
Final	December 5, 1981
Host
Venue	Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
Presenter(s)	Raúl Velasco
Host broadcaster	Televisa
Opening act	Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra
Participants
Number of entries	21
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 5-1 point(s) to their 5 favorite songs
Nul points	None
Winning song	Spain Francisco : Latino
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The OTI Festival 1981 is the tenth edition of the OTI Festival which was held on December 5 at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico. It was presented by Raúl Velasco, who presented more than three times in the history of the festival.

Background

This year the first participation of the Valencian Francisco representing Spain stands out; also, the second foray of the Chilean Florcita Motuda, in her characteristic strambotic style.

The Portuguese José Cid, who returns to this festival after his appearance at OTI 1979 and then seventh place in Eurovision 1980. And as an anecdotal case, the representative of Netherlands Antilles, Efrem Benita, who, on this occasion, placed himself in a rather uninspiring position, twenty years later would win the first prize of the Eurovision festival representing his country of residence, Estonia, under the name Dave Benton with Estonian Tanel Padar.

Among the composers, the Mexican song was composed by Felipe Gil 'El Charro', who already composed 'La felicidad', the winning song of OTI 1975. On the other hand, the famous Argentine boleros composer Chico Novarro signed the score of his country's song.

For the final result, the triumph was taken by the Spanish theme song 'Latino', a great success of Francisco created by Herrero y Armenteros, followed by Argentina and, in a draw for the third prize, the Mexican and American songs. The United States was represented by Puerto Rican singer Aldo Matta, who represented his home country in the same contest eight years later.

Running Order

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language
1	Portugal	José Cid	Uma Lágrima (A Tear)	Portuguese
2	Uruguay	Ariel	Olvidemos recordando (Let's Forget Remembering)	Spanish
3	El Salvador	Eduardo Fuentes	El latinoamericano (The Latin American Man)	Spanish
4	Nicaragua	Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy	Así te quiero yo (The Way I Love You)	Spanish
5	Venezuela	Neyda Perdomo	Aquel ciego (Blind Man)	Spanish
6	United States	Aldo Matta	Y Fuiste Mujer (And You're A Woman)	Spanish
7	Guatemala	Sergio Iván	Estoy loco (I'm Crazy)	Spanish
8	Spain	Francisco	Latino	Spanish
9	Ecuador	Hermanos Diablo	América (America)	Spanish
10	Panama	Roger Bares	Pero Ayer, Fuiste Sólo María (But Yesterday, You Were Just Maria)	Spanish
11	Puerto Rico	Glen Monroig	Mírame a los ojos (Look Me In The Eyes)	Spanish
12	Netherlands Antilles	Efrem Benita	Vaya un amigo (What A Friend)	Spanish
13	Brazil	Cláudia	Renacenza (Reborn)	Portuguese
14	Honduras	Oneyda	Ven (Come)	Spanish
15	Colombia	Jaime D'Alberto	Si nací por amor, yo nací para amar (If I was born for love, I was born to love)	Spanish
16	Mexico	Yoshio	Lo que pasó, pasó (What Happened, Happened)	Spanish
17	Peru	Gladys Mercado	Hombre de mis sueños (Man in my dreams)	Spanish
18	Paraguay	Alberto de Luque	Vos y yo seremos todos (You and I We'll Be)	Spanish
19	Argentina	Marianella	Súbete a mi nube (Climb to my cloud)	Spanish
20	Costa Rica	Juan Carlos Wong	Cantaré (Sing)	Spanish
21	Chile	Florcita Motuda	Si hoy tenemos que cantar a tanta gente, pensémoslo (If today we have to sing to so many people, let's think about it)	Spanish

Voting System

The voting system was derived to the current scoring marks as similar to the Eurovision Song Contest, each country will score 5-1 points to every song.

Results

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language	Place	Points
1	Portugal	José Cid	Uma lágrima	Portuguese	10	14
2	Uruguay	Ariel	Olvidemos recordando	Spanish	19	4
3	El Salvador	Eduardo Fuentes	El latinoamericano	Spanish	12	11
4	Nicaragua	Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy	Así te quiero yo	Spanish	8	15
5	Venezuela	Neyda Perdomo	Aquel ciego	Spanish	17	7
6	United States	Aldo Matta	Y fuiste mujer	Spanish	3	22
7	Guatemala	Sergio Iván	Estoy loco	Spanish	21	1
8	Spain	Francisco	Latino	Spanish	1	51
9	Ecuador	Hermanos Diablo	América	Spanish	12	11
10	Panama	Roger Bares	Pero ayer fuiste sólo María	Spanish	17	7
11	Puerto Rico	Glen Monroig	Mírame a los ojos	Spanish	15	8
12	Netherlands Antilles	Efrem Benita	Vaya un amigo	Spanish	20	2
13	Brazil	Cláudia	Renacenza	Portuguese	10	14
14	Honduras	Oneyda	Ven	Spanish	7	16
15	Colombia	Jaime D'Alberto	Si nací por amor, yo nací para amar	Spanish	5	18
16	Mexico	Yoshio	Lo que pasó, pasó	Spanish	3	22
17	Peru	Gladys Mercado	Hombre de mis sueños	Spanish	12	11
18		Alberto de Luque	Vos y yo seremos todos	Spanish	8	15
19	Argentina	Marianella	Súbete a mi nube	Spanish	2	40
20	Costa Rica	Juan Carlos Wong	Cantaré	Spanish	15	8
21	Chile	Florcita Motuda	Si hoy tenemos que cantar a tanta gente, pensémoslo	Spanish	5	18
Place: Auditorio Nacional - Mexico City, Mexico

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