Greetings to the entire Steemit platform!

Thinking of all those Steemians who enjoyed the mic every week we have created a great contest especially for singers to show their talent, delight us with their voices, dedicate songs and express themselves through the singing art. In this contest you can participate with or without track as they read! You can sing with instruments, with a karaoke track or a capella, the important thing is that you sing and show us your interpretation!

This week we commemorate the death of the Queen of Soul by paying homage to Aretha Franklin, highlighting the genre soul, blues and R&B songs sung by her or another singer of these genres.

Due to load problems with Dlive we have decided to open to another platform like Dtube so from now on participants will be able to upload their interpretations to any of these 2 video platforms or even to both.

¿Hablas español? Lee este post en tu idioma Concurso Sing It semana 8 (Edición Especial Soul en Homenaje a Aretha Franklin) - Creado por y para cantantes - Ven, Canta y Gana STEEM by betamusic

Sing It Contest Winners 7 Week - Ganadores del Concurso Sing It Semana 7

"Sing It"

A contest made by singers and for singers!

This contest is made to Steemit's vocal talents created by enthusiastic singers for the entire community.

• Are you a very good singer but you have trouble getting musicians or playing an instrument?
• Do you want to demonstrate your vocal quality to the big Steemit community?

If the answer is "Yes" then this contest is for you!

Prepare a camera (cell phone, webcam, laptop camera, etc.) to record yourself interpreting your favorite artists to impress the judges of our great contest.

Hey! but there are rules!

Like any good contest, there must be an order to perform the procedures with total normality, security and so we can enjoy a lot of good shares, good feedbacks and a good remuneration for it.

So, let's talk about the rules of the contest:

• Record a video on the platform Dtube or DLive. Only these two platforms are allowed, if your video is on YouTube you can also mount it in Dlive, Dtubeo in both as it is the only accepted platform, this to give knowledge and greater use to this page that allows us immediate remuneration for our work to Through Upvotes as Steemit.

• Say the name of the contest and your user at the beginning of the video, ie start your video with the following sentence: "This video is for the Sing it contest of Steemit Week 8, my user is @...". This will be to know that your participation is recent and so be able to consider it as valid.

• Your post should start by saying Sing it ontest (the song or the name of your interpretation).

• This week you must sing a song of genre Soul, blues or R&B.

• Leave the link of your participation in the comments of this post.

• You must use the #singit #music tags and place the last two tags of your choice.

• The entries of the contest will begin with this promotional post and this time for being a special edition lasts 2 weeks you can upload your entry in this post and have opportunity to upload it to the day Sunday 9 September.

The contest will have on some particular occasions or weeks a weekly challenge, which will decide what kind of participation will be held (for that particular week), it can be a challenge by musical genre, by artist or by particular song, everything will be indicated in the post of the contest of each week.

This week will be a special soul in homage to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin who has been bastion of this genre and one of its main exponents, has just died last August 16 and for her is dedicated all our vocal energy , we think that the most important thing is to continue your musical legacy and spread it so that your memory lasts in the time for this special will only be accepted songs framed in the genres soul, blues and R&B will be able to participate with songs of Aretha Franklin, of any other exponent of these musical genres or even songs of their own, so to promote their creativity to the maximum.

Soul:

Soul is a genre that had its origins in the United States and whose influence has had a huge impact on currents such as rock and pop. Its origins are found in the melodies of Rythm and blues sung by Afro-American communities and the religious sounds of gospel. The merger of both gave way to a wide musical variety, which was soon one of the basis for several important movements in the field, such as Rock n ' roll. Source

This contest is made to Steemit's vocal talents created by enthusiastic singers for the entire community.

• Are you a very good singer but you have trouble getting musicians or playing an instrument?
• Do you want to demonstrate your vocal quality to the big Steemit community?

If the answer is "Yes" then this contest is for you!

Prepare a camera (cell phone, webcam, laptop camera, etc.) to record yourself interpreting your favorite artists to impress the judges of our great contest.

Hey! but there are rules!

Like any good contest, there must be an order to perform the procedures with total normality, security and so we can enjoy a lot of good shares, good feedbacks and a good remuneration for it.

So, let's talk about the rules of the contest:

• A video must be recorded on the DLive platform. It is only allowed on this platform, if your video is on YouTube you also upload it on Dlive since it is the only accepted platform, this to give knowledge and greater use to this page that allows us immediate compensation for our work through upvotes like steemit.
• You must say the name of the contest and your user at the beginning of the video, that is, start your video with the following sentence: " This video is for the Sing it contest of Steemit, my user is @ ... ". This will be to know that your participation is recent and thus be able to consider it as valid.
• Your post should start by saying Sing it-contest (the song or the name of your interpretation).
• You must use the #dlive #singit #music tags in that order and place the last two tags of your choice.
• The contest entries will begin with this promotional post, until Sunday at 16:00 UTC. (any entry that enters after that time will not be valid.
• The contest will have on some particular occasions or weeks a weekly challenge, which will decide what kind of participation will be held (for that particular week), it can be a challenge by musical genre, by artist or by particular song, everything will be indicated in the post of the contest of each week.
• The contest will have on some occasions or particular weeks a weekly challenge, which will decide what type of participation will be taken as obligatory subject (for that particular week), can be a challenge by musical genre, by artist or by particular song, everything is It will indicate in the promotional publication of the contest of each week. This week there is no particular challenge so you can upload any song in English or Spanish.

Awards and aspects to consider:

In order to get the winners, the judges will be based on the following aspects:

• Tuning:: Although it is a karaoke contest and karaoke is generally based on fun and not so much on the vocal technique aspect, we want this to be one of the best competitions for SINGERS specifically, then, a good singer must be in tune, right?

• Timing:: As in aspect number 1, you have to take into consideration the way in which the singer falls into the song's tempo, then, if a singer knows how to use his resources so that the voice travels through the instrumental, it is a resounding success.

• Performance: This is one of the most important aspects to consider because it does not help that you have an amazing voice but do not have anything of show, your body language should go according to what you sing because as a singer the work is to demonstrate both the voice and the body the theme of the song, what was the composer wanted to tell us there, so we just have to leave everything of us inside our participation.

In the award of the contest will be awarded a total of 15 STEEM divided into three prizes, ie there will be a total of three winners:

1st place	2nd place	3rd place
8 STEEM	5 STEEM	2 STEEM

* *As the competition grows in popularity and sponsorship will continue to increase the awards, so help us and gives Resteem to this post

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Team behind the contest

Within the team that will be week after week pending to make everything go as it is due we have the following steemians:

@ilazramusic

An amazing, high category musician in Steemit, who has won several competitions within the platform as the Open Mic (week 82), Pitch Perfect (week 19) (including the Karaoke Contest (week 39), will be within the judge team..

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@nnnarvaez

Founder of the community @reveur. One of the most brave fighters for justice within the steemit community founder and sponsor of large and small Spanish-speaking projects, is known as BOTman within the platform, his struggle is sometimes misunderstood, he seems grumpy and unbearable but he is a great person.

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@betamusic

Degree in Music, creator and organizer of the musical contests of the venezuelan community, performer of the piano, classical guitar and singer, winner of the Steemit Open Mic in the week number 4. Choral director with extensive experience in Venezuelan Choirs, currently develops her career as a solo singer.

And as a sponsor of the contest we will have one of the witnesses who strives to develop the Spanish-speaking community within the Steemit platform, who gives weight to Spanish-speaking talent through the #castellano label:

The @Castellano Witness

Steps to vote for @castellano as a Witness

• First, enter here ---> Steemit Witnesses
  ---> Steemit Witnesses

• Then, go to the box shown in the image above and write the name:
  Or use the link on the image to approve @castellano using SteemConnect.castellano and then you give VOTE.

Don’t forget to vote for the Witness @c0ff33a click below to vote easily

And you can vote for the Witness team c0ff33a and @derangedvisions - click below to vote easily

Any other person or project that wants to participate as sponsor of this contest we are open to any help I can contact by discord or the comments of this post, we hope that is to your liking the contest and join more and more Steemians in Support to the musicians of the community!

Special thanks to @carlos-cabeza for creating all the images for this contest!