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Laura Branigan - Wins Grand Prize with "The Lucky One" - The 13th Tokyo Music Festival (1984)
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The American pop vocalist Laura Branigan wins the Grand Prize for "The Lucky One" at The 13th Tokyo Music Festival held the Sunday night, April 1, 1984 in Tokio, Japan.
The winning song was composed and written by Bruce Roberts, arranged by Gene Page and produced by Jack White. The award coincided with the release of her third LP album on Atlantic Records, "Self Control".
The Grand Prize was given to artists who are recognized as more excellent. Fellow singer, Linda Ronstadt delivers the trophy to Laura and orchestrator Nelson Riddle handed her the check of 3 million yen ($ 13.400) as part of the award.
Laura was so surprised and thrilled, she was unable to speak, she just could put the mic over her excited heart, and we understood her. She was the great winner among many talented finalists from several countries of the world!. Fifteen finalist from nine countries participated in the festival. The singers Laura Branigan and Pia Zadora represented to the United States.
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Laura compited with fourteen finalist from nine countries. Besides her, other artists also got another awards, Taco (Best Singer's award); Pia Zadora (Gold Prize); Mark Holden (Gold Prize); Limahl (Silver Prize); Hideki Saijo (Silver Prize); Ouyang Feifei (Silver Prize); Miyuki Kosaka (Nelson Riddle award) and Koji Kikkawa (Foreign Judges Award). Only singers Laura and Pia Zadora represented to the United States. Linda Ronstadt and Nelson Riddle were special guests. Rita Coolidge was the host. Inoue and María Asahina were the moderators.
This event was held in the Nippon Budokan Hall, a Martial Arts Building from Japan, located in the center of the city of Tokyo, where in addition to martial arts competitions are also held musical concerts and other shows.
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* About the video: I'd been looking this video for a long time and fortunately now I have it on my channel to share with everyone. I'm so happy and I hope you enjoy it as much as I!.
This is the second segment of Laura's participation there. This is her second and final performance of "The Lucky One" after her victory. The first performance is this .
* About the trophy: It's a metal piece, high and bright, coated with crystal plates and also it's seems very heavy, as you can see when Laura left it on the lectern to sing. I read that the trophy has a weight of 35 pounds (almost 16 kg).
During many years there was a bit of mystery about the whereabouts and about whom have possession of this trophy. The sad truth is that curiously Laura never had it once she left Japan. According to what I could know, it was in the hands of Susan Joseph, Laura's manager at that time, who apparently many years later sold it to a fan. Then it went to a collector and now is property of Kathy Golik.