In a space in the purest New York style but without leaving Tenerife, Santa Cruz has crowned its new queen of Carnival 2023 this Wednesday, the young Adriana Peña, who has reached first place among fifteen candidates.
Peña, representing the Añaza Carrefour Shopping Center and with a fantasy titled 'Lisboa' by designer Santi Castro -who also won first prize at Carnival 2022-, was chosen by the jury and, as was done in the last edition , also by popular vote, represented by the public present at the venue and those who followed the show on television.
With this, the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife already has a queen, in a festivity that has been celebrated just six months after the last one -which had to be delayed until June 2022 due to the health emergency-, and which has had with the presence of all the carnival groups and performances by various singers, among which the Mexican Carlos Rivera stood out.
The event took off at 9:30 p.m. to New York, an area that the public accessed through an overture that included the staging of various choreographic groups and musical performances, among which those of the singers Nía stood out. , Jadel or the K-Narias, during which various typical scenes of the American city were recreated.
In parallel to this, the queen of Carnival 2022, Ruth González, made her appearance before the public dressed in her fantasy 'Look at me', with which she became the winner of the last 2022 edition.
Welcomed by the music of different groups such as the Afilarmónica Ni Fú-Ni Fá, the Tropicana de Candelaria comparsas -which has obtained the third prize for Interpretation in this edition- and Río Orinoco -acésit for Interpretation- or the rondallas, the candidates for the corona made their appearance divided into four groups.
The emotional component of the evening came with a tribute to the monarchs that the chicharrera festival has had, on this occasion, in line with the docuseries 'Tras la máscara', by Raquel García, about the carnival carnivals of chicharreras.
And there was also room for surprises: the adult murgas, another of the participating groups, carried out a joint performance with the unexpected appearance of Pepe Benavente, which gave way to the subsequent concert by Carlos Rivera.
With this collaboration, the artist is reunited with the Tenerife public, after his visit last year 2021, when he offered a performance without on-site spectators in the same space.
Finally, the face-to-face jury was made up of fashion designer Andrés Acosta; the author of the Carnival poster, Nareme Melián; the design specialist, Roberto Siguero; the creative director of Hache TV, Henry Querales; the actress Macarena Gomez; and the choreographer Maite Marcos.
Along with them, the singer Gisela; journalists Roberto Herrera and Marta Modino; the communicator La Forte; the pilot Christine GZ and the singers Adexe and Nau; in addition to the 10,500 votes of the public, who proclaimed Adriana Peña as queen.
Likewise, they determined that their court of honor be made up of Hirisley Jiménez, first lady; Laura Fernandez, second; Carmen Luna Hibner, third; and Marta Santana, fourth.
The event culminated to the sound of 'Suave', the song chosen to represent this year's carnivals, and was conducted for the sixth time by Enrique Camacho, and hosted by presenters Alexis Hernández and Laura Afonso.
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