The four singing finalists arrived then from the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition represented in Ester Andujar, from Spain; Alicia Ricciardi, from Italy; Karlie Bruce, from Australia; and Nikoletta Szoke, from Hungary. The Spanish with good but gawky will, that talent gave a cold presentation and that gave the fourth place for her without prize, whereas Karlie Bruce, with a beautiful voice and smooth interpretative ways, remembered us to the many white singers of jazz of the great bands of swing, but like those, without the talent and the capacity for the song scat and the improvisation, which surely influenced for her third place in spite of a pleasant performance.

The presentation of the Italian Ricciardi, on the other hand, more daring and sharp, offered good voice and interesting improvisations but, as we would say in Barranquilla, it needed five cents for the weight. However, the one that did not have currículo, the one that had not gained prizes, the one that its own group did not have, the one that had not sung with this or that orchestra nor it had done tours in his country or by world, gypsy Nikoletta, which it only had like presentation the autoconfesión of which all her family is bound to the music, the one that studied Foreign trade and left the academy by the music, the one that has only studied 4 years of jazz and just now it begins his lessons of classic song, made a presentation outstanding that was worth the First Prize of the Jury and the first Prize to her of the Public. Thus they are the things.

But surely a jury made up of the divas Barbara Hendricks and Randy Crawford (that someday will tell the history me of the episode of the necklace in Perugia) and by professor Muriel Dubuis, surely saw in the Hungarian what many also we saw: perfect refining, enchantment, dominion of the subjects, improvisation and good joining with its companions, that were such of the guitarists: the members of the wonderful quartet of the young Swedish saxofonist Magnus Lindgren.