22 solo performers from 28 countries competed for winning the Trophy that left for Belgium that year, with Jacques Hustin. Even if only at the beginning, the musical event organized by Romania was also called “The festival from the East that looked like in the West!“
A year later, the “Golden Stag” trophy came back home, as a Romanian singer, Luminita Dobrescu, won the performing contest.
Worldwide broadcast in 1970, the festival got a larger and larger recognition, while winning a prize in the competition was an important goal for any solo performer. Famous names nowadays, like Julio Iglesias or Christina Aguilera, currently dominating the musical industry and having fans in the whole world, sang on the stage in Brasov, in their early career.
Therese Steinmetz (Netherlands), in 1970, and Anne Louise Hanson (Sweden), in 1971, were the winners of the following editions until the festival ceased, in 1972.
Continued only in 1992, “The Golden Stag” introduced many international musical stars: Trie Utami (Indonesia), Arina Commodores (Lithuania), Worthy Davis (USA) and Cramps in The Leg (Russia), as respectively winners of the festival in the period 1992-1995.
It was only in 1996, after 27 years of worldwide rambling, that the Stag came back home due to Monica Anghel, who won the trophy craved by all participants.
Indonesia won for the second time the Trophy in 1997, by its competitor, Meiske Shakila Sherhalawan, and other three years of absence followed close for the most important Romanian pop music event.
Romania came back in full strength in 2001, both with the organization of the festival, and with the performance of its representatives in competition, as the band Proconsul succeeded in convincing the jury that it deserved to be the winner of “The Golden Stag”.
Ipak, Galager je opet kritikovao odluku organizatora, rekavsi da su ga naterali ode da “pljuje i urla”. Ali, dodao je: “Samo da se zna, meni se je Jay-Z ok”.



