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David Broza up for Goya Award
Israeli singer-songwriter honored by Spanish Film Academy, nominated for best song award for main theme to "Candida"; theme movie's only nomination
The Spanish Film Academy has nominated Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza for the Goya Award for best song, Ynet has leaned Saturday.
The prestigious Goya Awards, known as the los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards – the equivalent of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscars.
Broza was nominated in the Best Original Music Score category, for performing La vida secreta de las pequeñas cosas (the secret lives of small things), the theme song to Spanish director Guillermo Fesser's Candida (The Innocent).
The song, which was written by renowned lyricist Jorge Drexler, is the movies only Goya nomination.
The collaboration between Broza and Drexler was initiated by Broza, who also gives a cameo performance in the movie. "The final version of the song was written on a lazy Saturday afternoon in Jaffa," Broza told Ynet.
"Jorge was in Wisconsin and I was giving him instructions over the phone… he was in the US, I was in Jaffa and we were 30 minutes passed the song's deadline.
"The producers initially wanted us to do a covers soundtrack, but I insisted on original music, which makes this nomination extra special," he added.
"The song got very little airplay and we didn't release it as a single but it still got as far as it could all on its own… this just proves art speaks for itself."
Broza and Drexler's collaboration will compete against two other songs: Victor Reyes and Rodrigo Cortés' "Circus Honey Blues" from "Concursante" (The Contestant) and Daniel Melingo's "Pequeno Paria" from "El Nino De Barro".
The Goya Awards are scheduled to take place in Madrid on January 29th.
