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Eurovision 2024: Portugal’s Second Rehearsal!

Our next contestant to come up on the Eurovision 2024 stage is Iolanda from Portugal singing her song “Grito“ (Scream).

Who is Iolanda?

Iolanda Costa was born on November 4, 1994 in Figueira da Foz, in the Coimbra district, Portugal. She demonstrated a passion for music since an early age, which brought her to study at the conservatory. When she was seventeen she enrolled in the faculty of communication sciences in Lisbon, and a few years later she moved to London to study musical composition at the British and Irish Institute of Modern Music of the University of Sussex.

She made her first debut in Festival da Canção in 2022, when she co-wrote the entry “Mar no fim”, sung by Blacci. In 2023 she released her first EP, Cura, that she wrote during the COVID pandemic.

Iolanda won Festival da Canção 2024 with the song “Grito” (Scream), obtaining the maximum score from the juries and second place from the televote and gaining the right to represent Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

The Rehearsal

Grito is a song that really builds over the three minutes, and even though it’s a ballad, it still has a underlying bass that vibrates through the floor. A song you feel through your feet and into your chest.

Portugal Second Rehearsal 2024. Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU

The staging is similar to iolanda’s win at Festival da Canção, with five white-clad dancers with covered faces performing a contemporary dance routine. They’ve also lowered the middle cube, which makes the space feel more intimate and adds to the artistry.The whole act is creative and hypnotic.

Portugal Second Rehearsal 2024. Credit: Alma Bengtsson/EBU

After all today’s second rehearsals a recap video will be published on the official Youtube channel! Stay tuned!

The Dress Rehearsal for Portugal and the rest of Semi Final 1 will be held on the 6th of May.


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Portugal: Festival da Canção 2024 Full Results Released!

The Portuguese broadcaster, RTP, has released the full results of the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

The full results of the three live shows of Festival da Canção 2024, can be seen below.

Semi Final 1 Festival da Canção 2024 Results:

Semi Final 1 Festival da Canção 2024 Results

Semi Final 1 Festival da Canção 2024 Results

Semi Final 2 Festival da Canção 2024 Results:

Semi Final 2 Festival da Canção 2024 Results

Semi Final 2 Festival da Canção 2024 Results

Final Festival da Canção 2024 Results:

Final Festival da Canção 2024 Results

Final Festival da Canção 2024 Results

Iolanda with Grito will represent Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in MalmöSweden.

Portugal will perform in the second half of the first semi-final on May 7.

https://youtu.be/K5wDGhcDSpQ

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Source: RTP

Portugal: The results of the second semi-final of Festival da Canção 2024!

Portugal has started the search for its representative and entry for Eurovision 2024. The Festival da Canção 2024, as the country’s public television channel calls the process, consists of two semi-finals and a final. The second semi-final was completed a few minutes ago, with six contestants advancing to the next stage of the final.

The presenters of the evening were Tânia Ribas de Oliveira, José Carlos Malato and Inês Lopes Gonçalves.

The jury consisted of seven music professionals:

  • Gisela João – singer
  • Benjamim – musician
  • Lia Pereira – journalist
  • Miguel Esteves Cardoso – songwriter
  • Lura – singer
  • Pedro Oliveira – musician
  • Mimicat – Representative of Portugal Eurovision 2023

The ten songs that claimed the six tickets for the grand final were:

The results:

The five finalists were determined 50% by the jury and 50% by the TV audience. In the second round, one more artist made it to the final by the TV audience alone. The exact ranking of the artists by both the jury and the audience was not announced at the end of the evening. The detailed results will be made public after the end of the festival.

The six artists who have qualified for the final of Festival da Canção 2024 are:

So the 12 artists we will see in the final of Festival da Canção 2024 are:

  1. Rita Rocha – Pontos Finais”
  2. Nena – “Teorias da Conspiração” 
  3. Perpétua – “Bem Longe Daqui” 
  4. Iolanda – “Grito” 
  5. João Borsch – “Pelas Costuras” 
  6. Noble – “Memory” 
  7. Buba Espinho – “O Farol” 
  8. No Maka ft Ana Maria – “Aceitar” 
  9. Léo Middea – “Doce Mistério”
  10. Silk Nobre – “Change”
  11. Cristina Clara – “Primavera” 
  12. Rita Onofre – “Criatura”  

See you next Saturday 9 March for the grand final of Festival da Canção 2024.

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Source: www.rtp.pt

Portugal: These are the dates for the three shows of Festival da Canção 2024!

A couple of hours ago, RTP announced the dates of all three shows of this year’s Festival da Canção, on a post on the official Instagram account of the Portuguese national selection process!

On the 18th of January there would be a livestream on TikTok where the Portuguese national broadcaster will reveal more details on this year’s Festival da Canção and the competing songs! The livestream will start from 12:10 UTC.

This is the schedule of the three shows of Festival da Canção:

  • Semi Final 1: Saturday 24 February 2023
  • Semi Final 2: Saturday 2 March 2023
  • Grand Final: Saturday 9 March 2023

Last year’s Festival da Canção winner and ultimately, the Portuguese representative for Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, UK was Mimicat with the song Ai coração, that placed 23rd on the Grand Final, continuing the Portuguese three-year qualification streak.

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Source: RTP / Festival da Canção Instagram Account

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