Soraya Arnelas
was born in Valencia de Alcántara, in the Spanish region of Extremadura,
on 13 September 1982. Her career as an artist started in 2005, after she
had become the most popular finalist of the TV programme "Operación
Triunfo." Since then, Soraya's record trajectory has been meteoric,
with four albums made with the record company Vale Music/Universal Music
Spain.
Soraya was an air stewardess. She speaks English, French and Portuguese,
and also outside of her music career collaborates with humanitarian organisations
in aid of children.
The Spanish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest is entitled La noche
es para mí (The night is for me). It has the quality of being a
song specially written to please a wide range of European tastes. On the
one hand, it is connected to western pop sounds, with a musical dance
base which is always a point of reference in the history of the Eurovision
Song Contest.
Soraya's song also includes a mixture of ethnic sounds. There is a great
deal of mixed music, particularly Latin sounds, thanks to the strains
of the Spanish guitar, it is also reminiscent of eastern music and sounds
typical of Scandinavian and Eastern European countries. |