Spain - HIJOS DE LA MAREA (CHILDREN OF THE TIDE)

Dear friends, Schoolovision returns for yet another year and the students of CEIP Elvira Vaquero, from Valsequillo in Gran Canaria, are very excited to be able to represent Spain again, from the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, and we want to do so on this occasion singing to Europe how important happiness is and inviting them to discover our paradise.

This video that is presented has been made for Schoolovision 2022, in different corners of our island.
The students of primary of the CEIP Elvira Vaquero have been the true protagonists of this project from the first moment, they have chosen  the song to represent in this edition of the festival.

The boys and girls have wanted to make a small ensemble of three songs, combining the tradition of our islands, modern music and feelings of joy and happiness.

At the beginning of the video, we can hear sounds that transport us to the beautiful island, the sister island of La Palma, through the Danza de los Enanos. Then the boys and girls sing to the island where they live, "My paradise", to the identity of the Canary Islands and end up singing to Happiness.
With the first song that sounds, Danza de los Enanos, we wanted to pay a small tribute to our sister island of La Palma, the beautiful island, which has recently experienced a historic moment with the eruption of the volcano Cumbre Vieja, on September 19, 2021, and which in turn has left various collateral damage on the population of the island.
With the second song, "My paradise", we want to make known that we live in an archipelago, in the middle of the Atlantic, where the sun always rises and where people love each other, where you knock on the door and they open your heart, where the smell comes from the sea, surrounded by good people, beach, sun and good atmosphere and with this video we invite all the boys and girls of Europe to get to know our paradise. And to finish, we sing to a small and transparent thing, she is like a goddess, divine and capricious, but very necessary, something that sometimes costs us so much or we forget about her, that we have her very close, but sometimes we do not see her and that after the times lived, we have to shout to the world “yes to happiness!”. We end up singing to happiness and with that message, we want to offer all our encouragement and support to the country of Ukraine. Long live happiness, some have so much, so much that they have nothing, HAPPINESS!