“Costa Del Sol Voice” Objective

 

Costa Del Sol Voice website has been created by Dario Poli, David Mairs, Linda Mairs and Samantha mairs to promote and defend the good name of the Costa Del Sol and Marbella. We want to help people to voice their opinion against the mostly negative publicity about the Costa del Sol generated from the international press and media.

 

It’s completely understandable why thousands of people each year would want to move to Spain. It truly is a wonderful life on the Costa, we work to live rather than live to work. It’s therefore disappointing, to say the least, when the press abroad, report only the negative and never print all the wonderful and positive points of living on the Costa Del Sol.

Dario Poli and David Mairs who have owned homes on the coast for 15 yrs have taken up the challenge to redress the offensive propaganda by positive action. The fight to defend the reputation of the Costa del Sol began in Sweden April 2007, when Scottish composer, author, and painter Dario Poli, saw a CNN TV documentary on Marbella and the Costa del Sol which painted a very negative image of his adored Marbella.

Outraged by the one-sided depiction, he decided to do something about it, so he wrote the music for a song which he titled "Marbella, Marbella" expressing his affection for the town and the Costa del Sol Returning to Mijas Costa, he added the lyrics with singer Alan De Ward and registered the song, with S.G.A.E in Malaga. Following a meeting with musical arranger and producer Davis Mairs, Alan recorded the song in David´s studio in Fuengirola.

 

The catchy tune began to take off and since that CCN programme, what began as Dario’s one-man fight for Marbella, has intensified and the song is now played on most major radio stations, on the Costa del Sol such as ONDA CERO FM, REM FM Coastline Radio FM, Central FM, and Global FM just to mention a few, including interviews by Radio Solymar Fm in Swedish and Danish and both Dario and David have also made television appearances.

Colette Hall of Coastline Radio Fm wrote; "I think it's one of those songs that holidaymakers will remember like Viva Espana. I look forward to the album," and supporter Eric Holzhauer of Radio Sun FM wrote, "Let's make your song the official song of Marbella!"

 

The song was presented by Laura Stanbridge, the organiser of the BCCS & CIT Symposium held in November 2007, which was attended by the Mayoress of Marbella, Angeles Munoz; the Councillor for Tourism of Marbella Jose Luis Hernadez; publicist Max Clifford, and other heads of the business community.

 

Samantha Mairs, a dynamic Scottish singer recorded the song and on Tuesday 19 February presented it on Radio Clyde FM during an interview about her support for the Costa del Sol initiative, which featured her in the Scottish "Sunday Post" and "CNN" the German weekly has published the story. "MARBELLA, MARBELLA," has even been played in Thailand.

 

Dario, David and supporters are working with the media to have the song played all over Europe with the hope of spreading the good news about the Costa Del Sol in an Endeavour to bring property buyers and tourists to this glorious area.

 

If your wish to support the campaign, have ideas or suggestions, we would be delighted to hear from you. We cannot sit back and allow only negative publicity as this effects everyone living on the Costa Del Sol.

The Costa del Sol Voice thank everyone for their support.

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