Hombres (song)

"Hombres"
Single by Eva Santamaría
from the album Hombres
Released	1993
Genre	Pop
Songwriter(s)	Carlos Toro
Eurovision Song Contest 1993 entry
Country	Spain
Artist(s)	Eva Santamaría
Language	Spanish
Composer(s)	Carlos Toro
Lyricist(s)	Carlos Toro
Conductor	Eduardo Leiva
Finals performance
Final result	11th
Final points	58
Entry chronology
◄ "Todo esto es la música" (1992)
"Ella no es ella" (1994) ►

"Hombres" (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈombɾes]; "Men") is a song recorded by Spanish singer Eva Santamaría, written by Carlos Toro. It is best known as the Spanish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, held in Millstreet, Ireland. The song was chosen internally by the Spanish broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), as their representative in the Contest that year.^[1]

Background[]

From 1977 to 1999, TVE used an internal selection process to select both the singer and the song to represent them at Eurovision. For 1993, Eva Santamaría, a 22-year-old singer who had just finished recording her first album in Los Angeles, was selected to go to Millstreet with the lead song from her album "Hombres" written and composed by journalist Carlos Toro.

The song is sung from the point of view of a woman fed up with dating and men in general. Santamaría describes men as "selfish", "conceited", "vain", accusing them of confusing "machismo and masculinity", and lamenting that when they say "love" they mean "sex". However, she sings that when men are not around, "women feel lonely", and that men truly do make women happy, as they are as complementary as "war and peace...sun and moon... land and sea".

Eurovision[]

At Millstreet, the song was performed twenty-second on the night, following Croatia's Put with "Don't Ever Cry" and preceding Cyprus' and with "Mi Stamatas". At the end of the voting, "Hombres" took the eleventh-place slot with 58 points.^[2] No countries awarded Spain 12 points, the maximum score allotted to one country by another. Finland, however, deemed "Hombres" their second-favorite song of the evening and awarded Spain 10 points.

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