Operación Triunfo is the Argentine version of the series Operación Triunfo based on the international series Star Academy Until 2009, 4 editions were held. It was hosted by Marley The program had a comeback in 2012-2013 with a new 5th series and a change in format, by the Argentinean television station Telefe. The new edition, hosted by Germán Paoloski, is just for women contestants, with the aim of forming a female Argentine pop band.
Genoveva del Carmen Machado Hernández, better known as Geno, is a Spanish singer, actress, musical performer, and vocal trainer. Her breakthrough came in 2001 in the successful first edition of "Operation Triumph (OT)" on TVE.