Betty Missiego is a Peruvian singer who began her career as a dancer, but she was forced to abandon professional dancing due to an injury. She was a host for a television program that brought her great popularity in her native country.
Following a move to Spain in 1969, she embarked on a music career and became a dual citizen of Spain and Peru three years later. The same year, she represented her birth country in the first edition of the OTI Festival, held in the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos auditorium in Madrid, with the song written by herself "Recuerdos de un adiós", placing ninth.
She gained international recognition when she was selected to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 in Jerusalem with the song "Su canción", which finished as runner up with 116 points to the song "Hallelujah" by the group Milk & Honey of Israel, giving the country its best result in six years when it finished in the same position.
Post-Contest, she participated in the World Popular Festival in Tokyo and the Music Olympics in Paris and tried to represent the country for the second time the following year but the song she submitted was not selected.
Since then, she has remained a popular recording artist in the Spanish-speaking world.
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