Marcos Gómez Llunas is a Spanish

Spain

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 who has been successful in southern Europe

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 and Latin America

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  and is known for his participation in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest

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Llunas, son of Spanish musician Dyango

Dyango

Dyango, born José Gómez Romero on March 5, 1940 in Barcelona, is a Spanish musician. While he was born in Barcelona, capital of La Cataluña, he is not a Catalán, but rather, of Castilian or "Castellano" ancestry....

, released his self-titled first album in 1993. He recorded several moderately successful singles, and in 1995, in Paraguay

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, won the OTI Song Festival

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 for Spain with the song "Eres mi debilidad".

In 1997, Llunas was chosen internally by broadcaster TVE as the Spanish representative for the 42nd Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1997

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 with his self-penned song "Sin rencor

Sin rencor

"Sin rencor" was the Spanish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, performed in Spanish by Marcos Llunas. Llunas was also the composer and lyricist of the song....

" ("No Hard Feelings"). At the contest, held in Dublin on 3 May, "Sin rencor" finished in sixth place of the 25 entries.

In the years following his Eurovision appearance, Llunas recorded in Portuguese and Catalan in addition to Spanish, and became particularly successful in Latin American markets. His most recent album, a career retrospective, was released in 2004 and he has been inactive as a recording artist since, although he has appeared as a judge on Spanish television talent shows.

Albums discography

• 1993: Marcos Llunas
• 1994: Piel a piel
• 1996: Vida
• 1997: Mi Historia
• 1999: Pluja d'estels
• 2000: Desnudo
• 2002: Me gusta
• 2003: Hechicera
• 2004: Mi retrato