| Creator: | El Trece |
| Starring: | Marcelo Tinelli (1-2) José M. Listorti (3-Present) Denise Dumas (3-Present) |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Num Seasons: | 4 |
| Network: | El Trece |
| Last Aired: | present |
Cantando por un Sueño (literally "Singing for a dream") is a former segment inside the Argentine television program Showmatch, and now an independent TV show broadcast on El Trece.
On the contest, a non-celebrity "dreamer" (man or woman) who in addition must be a professional singer, is accompanied by a celebrity for some weeks of a singing competition. The couples are awarded points by a panel of judges, who give scores from 1 to 10, and those with the fewer points have to face the public vote to continue in the program.
As of May 2012, the show is in its fourth season and the panel of judges continues to include icons of the Argentine musical industry: Valeria Lynch, Óscar Mediavilla and Patricia Sosa.Journalist Marcelo Polino, who also serves as a judge in Bailando por un Sueño and Soñando por Bailar, is part of the panel of judges too.
| Season | Stars | Weeks | Dates | Celebrity honor places | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Second place | Third place | ||||
| 1) August 2006 | 8 | 7 | 08/16/06-12/15/06 | Iliana Calabró & Ricardo Rubio | Rodolfo Ranni & Lorena Miranda | Sandra Ballesteros & Andrés Olarte |
| Tota Santillán & Agustina Vita | ||||||
| 2) November 2007 | 12 | 13 | 11/01/07-12/18/07 | Tití Fernández & Micaela Salinas | Brenda Gandini & Francisco Cracogna | Karina Jelinek & Emiliano Rómbola |
| Diego Ramos & Florencia Vázquez | ||||||
| 3) October 2011 | 15 | 12 | 05/07/11-12/18/11 | Patricio Giménez & Priscila Juárez | Álvaro Navia & Ana P. Rodríguez | Andrea López & Jonathan González |
| Belén Frances & Augusto Álvarez | ||||||
| 4) May 2012 | 19 | 31 | 05/13/12-12/16/12 | Mole Moli & Natalie Scalzadonna | Silvina Escudero & Sebastián Vitale | Chiqui Abecasis & Irina Abecasis |
| Marcelo Iripino & Indira Aprile | ||||||
| 5) July 2020 | 28 | 26 | 27/07/20-15/01/21 | Agustín Sierra & Inbal Comedi | Ángela Leiva & Brian Lanzelotta | Rocío Quiroz & Rodrigo Tapari |
| Gladys, La bomba Tucumana & Santiago Griffo | ||||||
| Judges | Role | Seasons | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Head Judge | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||||||||||
| Óscar Mediavilla | Head Judge | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |||||||||
| Patricia Sosa | Head Judge | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |||||||||
| Patricia Sosa | Head Judge | ♦ | ♦ | |||||||||||
| Head Judge | ♦ | |||||||||||||
| Laura Ubfal | Head Judge | ♦ | ||||||||||||
| Temporary Judge | ♦ | |||||||||||||
| Paz Martínez | Temporary Judge | ♦ | ||||||||||||
Full time judge
Temporary/Guest judge
A total of 45 celebrities have appeared in the three seasons of Cantando por un Sueño. For each season, the celebrities are paired with a professional singer as a partner and a coach who instructs helps them with the song's choice and the work during the week. A total of 45 professional singers as the partners have appeared alongside celebrities.