OTI Festival 1989

The Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana (OTI) designated Univision as the host broadcaster for the 18th edition of the OTI Festival. The broadcaster staged the event in Miami. The venue selected was the theater of the James L. Knight Center, which is a venue with a capacity of 4,605 seats within a entertainment and convention complex.

Broadcasters from twenty-two countries participated in this edition of the OTI festival. The OTI members, public or private broadcasters from Spain, Portugal, and twenty Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries of Ibero-America signed up for the festival. From the countries that participated in the previous edition, the Netherlands Antilles did not return, while Aruba participated in the festival for the first time since the country gained independence from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986.

Some of the participating broadcasters, such as those representing Aruba, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States, selected their entries through their regular national televised competitions. Other broadcasters decided to select their entry internally.

Two artists returned to the festival representing other countries: Eduardo Fabián representing Uruguay, had won the festival representing the United States in 1986, along Dámaris Carbaugh and Miguel Ángel Guerra [es]; while Aldo Matta representing Puerto Rico had represented the United States in 1981.

Participants of the OTI Festival 1989^[1]

Country	Broadcaster	Song	Artist	Songwriter(s)	Language	Conductor
Argentina	ATC	"Te quedarás en mí"	Mónica Cruz	Daniel García Mario Schajris	Spanish
Aruba	TeleAruba	"Mi viejo"	Edwin Abath	Edwin Abath Don Ramon Krozendijk	Spanish	Franklin Granadillo
Bolivia		"Como dos enamorados"	Milton Cortez [es]	Milton Cortez	Spanish
Chile	TVN UCTV UTV	"La movida"	Catalina Telias [es]	Scottie Scott [es]	Spanish	Toly Ramírez
Colombia	Inravisión[a]	"El artista"	Yolanda González	Cristian Vega Riveros	Spanish	Cristian Vega Riveros
Costa Rica	Teletica	"Denme una guitarra"	Allan McPherson	Allan McPherson	Spanish
Dominican Republic		"Te ofrezco"	Maridalia Hernández	Juan Luis Guerra	Spanish	Manuel Tejeda
Ecuador	AECTV [es]	"Mi campesina"	Hermanos Miño Naranjo [es]	Luis Padilla Guevara [es]	Spanish
El Salvador	TCS	"Quisiera"	Gerardo Parker [es]	Johnny Calderón	Spanish	William Sánchez
Guatemala		"Traigo la voz"	Roberto Rey	Orlando Coronado	Spanish
Honduras		"Al fin la encontré"	Antonio Paredes	Erick Mondragón	Spanish
Mexico	Televisa	"Una canción no es suficiente"	Analí	Jesús Monárrez	Spanish
Nicaragua		"Días de amar"	Salvador y Katia Cardenal	Salvador Cardenal	Spanish
Panama		"Era tan solo ayer"	Christian	Christian	Spanish
Paraguay		"Como aquellas nubes"	Rodolfo González Friedman	Ricardo "Pilo" Lloret	Spanish
Peru		"Nadie me ama como tú"	Mache	Claudio Fabbri Armando Massé [es]	Spanish
Portugal	RTP	"Rosa morena"	Marco Paulo	Mário Martins [pt] Nuno Nazareth Fernandes [pt]	Portuguese
Puerto Rico	Telemundo Puerto Rico	"Porque no volverás"	Aldo Matta	Gustavo Márquez Teddy Jaureen Aldo Matta	Spanish	Eddie Hernández
Spain	TVE	"Como una luz"	José Manuel Soto [es]	José Manuel Soto	Spanish	Gualberto García Pérez
United States	Univision	"Hazme sentir"	Iris y Margie	Margarita Andino	Spanish
Uruguay	Sociedad Televisora Larrañaga	"Gracias"	Eduardo Fabián		Spanish
Venezuela		"Caras perdidas"	Salvador	Rafael Grecco	Spanish

The festival was held on Saturday 18 November 1989, beginning at 18:00 EST (23:00 UTC). It was presented by Lucy Pereda, Antonio Vodanovic, Verónica Castro, Carlos Mata, María Conchita Alonso, Emmanuel, and Don Francisco. The show featured Emmanuel, Yuri, and Xuxa as guest artists.^[2]

The winner was the song "Una canción no es suficiente" performed by Analí representing Mexico; with "Como una luz" by José Manuel Soto [es] representing Spain placing second; and "Te ofrezco" by Maridalia Hernández representing the Dominican Republic placing third. For the first time, the first prize was endowed with a monetary amount of US$20,000, the second prize of US$15,000, and the third prize of US$10,000, to be distributed each 60% to the songwriter and 40% to the performer.^[2] The first prize was delivered by Guillermo Cañedo, president of OTI, and Xavier Suarez, major of Miami. The festival ended with a reprise of the winning entry.

Results of the OTI Festival 1989^[1][3]

R/O	Country	Song	Artist	Place
1	El Salvador	"Quisiera"	Gerardo Parker [es]	—N/a
2	Dominican Republic	"Te ofrezco"	Maridalia Hernández	3
3	Nicaragua	"Días de amar"	Salvador y Katia Cardenal	—N/a
4	Peru	"Nadie me ama como tú"	Mache	—N/a
5	Aruba	"Mi viejo"	Edwin Abath	—N/a
6	Paraguay	"Como aquellas nubes"	Rodolfo González Friedman	—N/a
7	Colombia	"El artista"	Yolanda González	—N/a
8	Guatemala	"Traigo la voz"	Roberto Rey	—N/a
9	Bolivia	"Como dos enamorados"	Milton Cortez [es]	—N/a
10	Chile	"La movida"	Catalina Telias [es]	—N/a
11	Honduras	"Al fin la encontré"	Antonio Paredes	—N/a
12	Ecuador	"Mi campesina"	Hermanos Miño Naranjo [es]	—N/a
13	Argentina	"Te quedarás en mí"	Mónica Cruz	—N/a
14	Mexico	"Una canción no es suficiente"	Analí	1
15	Portugal	"Rosa morena"	Marco Paulo	—N/a
16	Spain	"Como una luz"	José Manuel Soto [es]	2
17	United States	"Hazme sentir"	Iris y Margie	—N/a
18	Uruguay	"Gracias"	Eduardo Fabián	—N/a
19	Puerto Rico	"Porque no volverás"	Aldo Matta	—N/a
20	Costa Rica	"Denme una guitarra"	Allan McPherson	—N/a
21	Venezuela	"Caras perdidas"	Salvador	—N/a
22	Panama	"Era tan solo ayer"	Christian	—N/a

Each of the ten members of the single jury selected their favourite songs in a secret vote, and only the top three places were revealed at the end. The members of the jury were:

• Celia Cruz – singer
• Emilio Estefan – producer
• Claudia de Colombia [es] – singer
• Braulio – singer-songwriter
• Ángela Carrasco – singer
• Roberto Livi [es] – singer-songwriter
• Ednita Nazario – singer, represented Puerto Rico in 1979
• Libertad Lamarque – actress
• Lola Beltrán – actress
• Silvia Pinal – actress