Vicco (singer)

Vicco's learned how to play the piano and compose at only 9 years old. The fact that she grew up in a very sensitized environment favored it; her mother sang when she was young and her father played the bass guitar, though not professionally. Both motivated the exploration of this discipline especially on family trips. At the age of 11, Vicco began singing and by age 15, she began to play the piano and sing concurrently for the first time.[1]

Vicco began her musical career at the age of 19.[2] Before becoming a solo artist, she and her sisters formed the music group Carpanta, which sang in celebrations and shared the lyrics on social media networks.[3] She has participated twice in La Marató de TV3 with the song "Qué boig el món" with Carlos Gómez, the singer of Lexu's, in 2014,[4] and with "Llum de la vida" with Mariona Castillo and the Cor Jove de l'Orfeó Català, in 2019.[5]

On 26 October 2022, it was announced that Vicco would participate in Benidorm Fest 2023, which was held to select Spain's candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.[6] She received quite a bit of support in the semi-final and qualified for the final as the second highest-scoring entry of the night.[7] In addition, her proposal Nochentera was the most listened to song on Spotify of all the songs of the edition; at the time, it already had streamed more than one and a half million times,[8] as well as being the most searched on Shazam and the most used on TikTok.[9] Therefore, the Tiana City Council organized the viewing of the final live at Sala Albéniz, in the same municipality.[7] In the end, however, Vicco came third place, with 129 points in the final, behind Blanca Paloma and Agoney.[10] In the months following the contest, the song peaked at number five at the Spanish Singles Chart and obtained a quintuple platinum certification by Promusicae.[11]