El Monstruo ('The Monster') is the popular designation that's given in Chile to the audience attending to the Viña del Mar International Song Festival. The name is due to great authority that perform the audience in each day of the event. From pressing to lengthen presentations favorite artists to interruptions with catcalls to singers and comedians who are not like, booing to prevent complete their show and force them to withdraw from the stage. In that case, in Chile it is said that "El Monstruo ate the artist".
Contents
The audience at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival is the only one in the world that has received a special name. This creates an expectation in people attending the show, waiting for the slightest opportunity to show their intolerance. Most artists booed by El Monstruo have been comedians, both for its lack of grace as the misfortune to get on the right stage between performances of singers or bands of renown.
He was remembered the occasion when El Monstruo asked the Gaviota de Plata (Silver Seagull) award for José Luis Rodríguez in 1988; the refusal of the mayor of Viña del Mar, Eugenia Garrido, who in the 1980s was who corroborated the awards, the singer said "Sometimes the people's voice must be heard", a phrase which some had a political background in relation to the military regime then ruling the country; the artist has said his sentence was not thought out or had a direct political intention. Rodriguez has indicated that feel that in that case it was a "tool for greater spiritual ideal."
Sometimes, however, the public is manifested catcalls to protest the presenters of the event. This happened in the 2007, when the animators, Tonka Tomicic and Sergio Lagos, dismissed the artist Ana Torroja to the general public discontent, he wanted her to continue singing. Boo to Lagos and Tomicic lasted nearly an hour. The same happened in 2009 when El Monstruo was in favor of Simply Red, booing for an hour for the group to return, and incidentally interrupting the Folk Competition, the singer Paolo Meneguzzi, a humorous routine performed by the trio Manpoval until partially calmed their minds with the presentation of Rakim and Ken-Y.
Explanation of the phenomenon
The possible reason for the existence of El Monstruo is over-dimensioned quality public festival to voice their catcalls heavily and for a long time. This is because the place and time of its completion, the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater (located on top of a small hill) and at night, provide a level of noise from the stands to the very large stage, even the blunder of a person can hear.
In addition, the gallery is very high in relation to the orchestra, which makes the audience look like a huge mountain of people rushes on stage, simulating rather be a semi-coliseum capable of holding 15,000 people in it.
List of ousted artists
Some of the artists to the public of Viña del Mar International Song Festival has prevented them from completing their stage show, but there are others that have been split by El Monstruo, that is, some booing and other cheering, and others amazingly they have managed to silence the boos.