El Factor X is the Colombian television music competition to find new singing talent.

It is the based on the original British competition The X Factor, created by Simon Cowell.

One was the one-year series El Factor X: Batalla de las Estrellas (meaning the Battle of the Stars).

"Juan Carlos Coronel" "José Gaviria" "Marbelle" "Piso 21" "Rosanna" "Carolina Gaitán" Participants and their respective mentors were: The winner of season one was Julio César Meza from solo-singers-aged-25+ category; the runners-up were Enygma (group made up of Ricardo García, Manuel Peña, Germán ‘Tito’ Núñez and Iván Peña) from vocal groups category and in third place was the controversial reggaeton-singer Farina (full name Pao Paucar Franco) from the solo-singers-aged-25-and-over category, famous for her quote Yo soy Farina!

The runner up was Mario Marcelino Macuacé and third-place went to Angelo (full name Juan Carlos Ángel).

Big publicity campaign was held and Canal RCN and Teleset S.A., producers of the third series visited various cities to collect talents from all over the country.