Portugal: The is the allocation draw for the semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2023!

Just a while ago, the publiv broadcaster of Portugal,RTP, revealed the allocation of the 20 competing artists, in the two semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2023!

The wel-known Portuguese music festival will return for another year and the winner and country’s representative in Eurovision 2023, will be decided through two semi-final rounds and the Grand Final. This is how the semi-finas look like, after the allocation draw took place in the headquarters of RTP:

Fisrt Semi-Final

April Ivy
Churky
Cláudia Pascoal
Jacinta
Mimicat
MOYAH
NEOH SOHO
Quim Albergaria
SAL
You Can’t Win Charlie Brown

Second Semi-Final

André Henriques
Bandua
Bárbara Tinoco
Dapunksportif
Edmundo Inácio
Inês Apenas
Ivandro
Teresinha Landeiro
The Happy Mess
Voodoo Marmalade

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We remind you that Festival da Canção 2023 will take place in Lisbon, on these days:

First Semi-Final : February 25, 2023
Second Semi-Final: March 5, 2023
Grand Final: March 11, 2023

The Grand Final will take place with 10 songs, and the winner will be decided by a combination of 50% public vote and 50% jury vote.

The previous winner of Festival da Canção and Portugal’s representative in Eurovision 2022 was Maro with the song “saudade, saudade“ that ended up in 9th place of the Grand Final, keeping Portugal’s qualification streak for the second year in a row:

https://youtu.be/mZtbD47u6yI

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Portuguese participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!