{"id":7544,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/first-song-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:24","slug":"first-song-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/first-song-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"First Song Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>21, 22, 23 and 26 December 1962<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The First Song Festival was held in Tirana, under the presentation of Margarita Xhepa and Luigj Gurakuqi. Albanian light music had begun its journey on &#8220;Tirana&#8221; radio. The Radio Orchestra of &#8220;Tirana&#8221; had been established. Many young composers had returned from abroad, who would later set the tone for Albanian music. Inspired by the Italian Song Festival, Sanremo, which had been held in Italy for 9 years, Albanian composers thought to bring such a tradition to Albania. The success of the first festival was evident at that time. There was a high interest at the Higher Institute of Arts to follow this event of Albanian light music. Just as in music, so too in lyrics, the First Festival remains the boldest and most successful endeavor of Albanian artistic creation. Va\u00e7e Zela was awarded the festival prize with the song \u201cF\u00ebmija i par\u00eb\u201d (\u201cThe First Child\u201d), composed by Abdulla Grimci and with lyrics by Dionis Budani.<i> (In the photo: Va\u00e7e Zela singing the song &#8220;The first child&#8221;.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> https:\/\/festivali.rtsh.al\/historiku\/fituesit\/fest-1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Albanian Radio Television<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Song Festival was held in Tirana, presented by Margarita Xhepa and Luigj Gurakuqi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10841,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions\/10841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}