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ABU Golden Kite World Song Festivals

Image: Andres Putting/ Thomas Hanses (EBU) | The 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival’s were held from 1989 to 1991 and were organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and the Malaysian broadcaster TV3.

The ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival’s was a competitive contest held in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and broadcast across the region as well as Europe.

According to the Australian broadcaster, the ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival was due to be hosted by Malaysia for five years from 1989 to 1994.

Participating countries and broadcasters:

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia – SBS – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ณ Brunei – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China – 1989 & 1991
  • Finland – Yle – 1990 & 1991
  • ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Hong Kong – 1989 & 1990
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India – 1991
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran – 1991
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ด Jordan – 1989 & 1991
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ Malaysia – TV3 – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ต Nepal – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippinesย – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Singapore – SBC – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Sri Lanka – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea – All editions
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey – 1991
  • Yugoslavia – 1989 & 1990

ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival 1989

The first ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival took place on October 1st. The contest was a merger between the ABU Popular Song Contest which had been run by the ABU from 1985 to 1987 and the domestic Malaysian contest the Golden Kite Festival which was run by the Malaysian broadcaster TV3.

The contest was hosted by TV3 and presented by Wan Zalleha and Mahathir Lokman. The venue was the Putra World Trade Centre.

Taking part in the 1989 contest were:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China – Hu Yao – “Village Girl“
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan – Saori Hareyama – “Tsugaru Jongara Otoka“
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ต Nepal – Prakash Shrestha, Meera, Om Bichram Bisca – “Kaanchi Lai Ghumaune Kathmandu Sahara“
  4. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ Malaysia – Liza Aziz – “Jalinan Bertakha” (Throne of Love)
  5. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea – Chi Yeon Lee – “Love For Night“
  6. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ด Jordan – Hot Ice – “Love Love“
  7. ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Hong Kong – Timothy Wong Yik – “Who would care for us?“
  8. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia – Paul Shelest – “Come With Me“
  9. Yugoslavia – Massimo Saviฤ‡ – “Ponovo Zajedno“
  10. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ณ Brunei – Awangku Zainal Abidian Pengrian Haii Puteh – “Fantasy“
  11. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Sri Lanka – Samitha Mudunkotuwa – “Wananthare Gana Wananthare”
  12. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Singapore – Christina Ong – “I Want To Remember“
  13. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines – Ivy Violan – “Easy To Love You“
  14. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia – Hari Moetki – “Aku Suka Kamu Suka” (I Like, You Like)
  15. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan – Alangiva Haq – “Piyasa”

Prizes were awarded to the top three performers as well as the top three songs, the prizes for the singers were:

  1. US$ 7,000
  2. US$ 5,000
  3. US$ 2,000

The prizes for the top three songs were:

  1. US$ 10,000
  2. US$ 7,000
  3. US$ 3,000

The results were as follows, the top three singers were:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia – Hari Moetki – Aku Suka Kamu Suka (I Like, You Like)
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines – Ivy Violan – Easy To Love You
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea – Chiย Yeon Lee – Love For Night

The top three songs were:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines – Ivy Violan – Easy To Love You
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia – Paul Shelest (17) – Come With Me
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ Malaysia – Liza Aziz – Jalinan Bertakha (Throne of Love)

ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival 1990

The 1990 contest was once again held in Malaysia at the Putra World Trade Centre, this time in September 1990. A total of 14 countries took part in this contest, the running order on the night was as shown below. Videos of all of the songs in the contest still exist, you can watch the performances by clicking on the songs:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan – Yukinao Contact – Ai wa shinanai
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines – Martin Ramon Nieveraย – Without you
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Singapore – Rozie Rahim & Kevin Ong – Where do we go from here?
  4. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ณ Brunei – Awangku Yusri Mohamed Pengiran Yahua – Memori cintaย 
  5. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia – David Page – How do you ever know it’s love?
  6. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ Malaysia – Liza Aziz – Selamam ku tola ke tepi
  7. ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Hong Kong – Rita Maria Carpio – Oh my God!
  8. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland – Gutter Twins –ย Kun tuneet kulejetta
  9. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia – Tri Utami Sari & Utha Likumahwa – Bilaย 
  10. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Southย Korea – Min Hae-Kyung – Beloved face
  11. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ต Nepal – Sukmit Gurung – Binti a chari
  12. Yugoslavia – Boris Novkovic – Dajanaย 
  13. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Sri Lanka – Jagath Wickramasinghe – Obath mamath hindina meย Iowa tula
  14. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan – Tina Sani – Lab aazaad

The results are as follows:

The top.3 performers were:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia

The top.3 best songs were:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines

As with the 1989 the results were decided by a jury of music professionals and experts. Cash prizes were once again given to the winners of the prizes however the amounts are unknown.

ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival 1991

The ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival returned for a third and what was final time. After this years contest the ABU broke ties with the contest and the Golden Kite festival returned to a domestic Malaysian show. This year a total of 17 countries competed in the contest, Jordan returned to the contest after a 1 year break, and Iran and Turkey make their first appearance at the contest. Withdrawing from the contest that year were Hong Kong and Yugoslavia.

The contest was hosted by Mahadzir Lokman & Wan Zaleha Radzi and took place on November 25th.

The running order and the songs on the night were as follows (you can watch the performances by clicking on the songs):

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea – Yang Soo Kyung –ย Sarangyn zhakaun yuhok
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India – Madhuri Sharma & Shobhana Rao – Let us join hands together
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan – Nahoko Morooka – So-jyuku
  4. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Singapore – Jacinta Abisheneganden – Everything I know
  5. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan – Arfak Sikkidi feat. Arif Lohar – Meray dais meinย harpa
  6. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ด Jordan – Suhair Odeh & Mustafa Sha’sha’a – Magdar agollak
  7. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China – Qui Yu – True Love
  8. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines – Smokey Mountain – Tayo Na
  9. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ Malaysia – Mark David – Dari keluhuran hati
  10. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ต Nepal – Sunil Upreti, Haris Mathema, Roshan Rana – #N/A
  11. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia – Penny Pavlakis – Like a song
  12. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia – Utha Likumahwa – I am sorry for everything
  13. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ณ Brunei – Pg Azahari Pg Hj Damit & Jainah Othman – Resah
  14. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland – Samuli Edelmann – Peggy
  15. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Sri Lanka –ย D. Suby, P. Vithana & K. de Silva – Siri Lak bimai
  16. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey –ย Fatih Erkoรง – Korku
  17. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran – Mohammad Reza – Sharaf mashali

Once again prizes were awarded to the top 3 performers and the top.3 songs. The results are as follows:

Best song:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia – US$12,000
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines – US$7,000
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia – US$3,000

Best performers:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines – US$ 7,000
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia – US$ 5,000
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia – US$ 3,000

Of Note

  • Jordan’s participants were a husband and wife, they were the first couple to perform together at the ABU Golden Kite Song Festival.

Disclaimer – Information is incomplete.

Image: Andres Putting/ Thomas Hanses (EBU)