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

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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

  1. April Ivy
  2. Churky
  3. Cláudia Pascoal
  4. Jacinta
  5. Mimicat
  6. MOYAH
  7. NEOH SOHO
  8. Quim Albergaria
  9. SAL
  10. You Can’t Win Charlie Brown

Second Semi-Final

  1. André Henriques
  2. Bandua
  3. Bárbara Tinoco
  4. Dapunksportif
  5. Edmundo Inácio
  6. Inês Apenas
  7. Ivandro
  8. Teresinha Landeiro
  9. The Happy Mess
  10. Voodoo Marmalade

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!

Portugal: 667 songs were submitted for Festival da Canção 2023!

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Some time ago RTP, Portugal’s public broadcaster, revealed through the official Instagram account of Festival da Canção, that 667 songs have been submitted to take part in the national  final.

The song submission window opened in September 2 and closed on October 21, while the four songs and artists that will claim the ticket for Liverpool and Portugal’s representation in Eurovision 2023 will be revealed in the coming days.

Like last year, Festival da Canção will host 20 acts, 16 songs of those being written from songwriters of different genres invited by RTP. The remaining 4 will be selected by the open submission process.

The national final will feature two semi-finals, with five songs from each, qualifying for the final. 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!

Portugal: RTP Confirms Eurovision 2023 Participation and Opens Submissions for Festival da Canção 2023!

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Portugal’s national broadcaster, RTP, confirmed that the country will participate in Eurovision 2023. At the same time, it gave an official announcement regarding the submissions for Festival da Canção 2023. They are opening for the artists that are interested.

Like last year, the Festival will host 20 acts, 16 songs of those being written from songwriters of different genres invited by RTP. The remaining 4 will be selected by the open submission process.

The applications are open from today, September 2nd, until 21st of October under the following rules:

  • Every Portugese resident, regardless of having the Portugese nationality or not, is eligible for competing. This includes the Portugese not residing in Portugal.
  • Those interested must provide their demo song files to RTP at festivaldacancao@rtp.pt, accompanied by various data (specified in the regulation).

Full rules can be read here

In Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Portugal was represented by MARO with the song “saudade, saudade”, finishing at 9th place. This marks the best placing Portugal has had since their only win in 2017, and remains one of the best Portugese results ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQul-rkcGPQ&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

Source: Eurovoix

Portugal: The finalists of Festival Da Canção 2022 who will accompany Maro in Turin!

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Through the official Festival da Canção Instagram account, Maro introduced the five vocalists that will accompany her in Turin, Italy.

Among them will be Milhanas who placed 7th at Festival da Canção 2022 with “Corpo De Mulher“, Diana Castro who placed 4th with “Ginger Ale” as well as Carolina Leite, Beatriz Fonseca and Beatriz Pessoa who accompanied her in the final of Festival da Canção 2022!

Maro was crowned as the grand winner of Festival da Canção 2022 with “Saudade, Saudade” and will represent Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest. Maro is competing in 10th position in the first semi-final on May 10th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQul-rkcGPQ&feature=emb_title

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Portugal’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Don’t forget to Vote in our poll! For the First Semi-final you vote HERE and for the Second Semi-final you vote HERE.

Portugal: Detailed results of the semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2022!

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The detailed results of Portugal’s national final for Eurovision 2022 were announced!

Portugal’s public broadcaster, RTP, announced the result of the jury and the public vote for the two semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2022.

The results of the semi-finals:

Semi-Final 1 (March 5)
  1. Maro – “saudade, saudade”  – 22 points (12 Jury+ 10 televote)
  2. Os Quatro e Meia – “Amanhã”  – 18 points (6 Jury+ 12 televote)
  3. FF – “Como É Bom Esperar Alguém”  – 16 points (8 Jury+ 8 televote)
  4. Diana Castro – “Ginger Ale” – 14 points (10 Jury+ 4 televote)
  5. Aurea – “Why?” – 14 points (7 Jury+ 7 televote)
  6. Fado Bicha – “Povo pequenino”  – 11 points (5 Jury+ 6 televote)
  7. Norton – “Hope” – 7 points (2 Jury+ 5 televote)
  8. Valas & Os Astronautas – “Odisseia”  – 7 points (4 Jury+ 3 televote)
  9. Kumpania Algazarra – “A Minha Praia”  – 5 points (3 Jury+ 2 televote)
  10. TheMisterDriver – “Calisun” – 2 points (1 Jury+ 1 televote)
Δεύτερος Ημιτελικός (7 Μαρτίου)
  1. Milhanas – “Corpo de Mulher” – 20 points (12 Jury+ 8 televote)
  2. Inês Homem de Melo – “Fome de Viagem” – 19 points (7 Jury+ 12 televote)
  3. Pongo & Tristany – “DÉGRÁ.DÊ” – 16 points (10 Jury+ 6 televote)
  4. Syro – “Ainda nos Temos” – 14 points (4 Jury+ 10 televote)
  5. Pepperoni Passion – “Códgio 30” – 13 points (8 Jury+ 5 televote)
  6. Jonas – “Ponas Soltas”  – 13 points (6 Jury+ 7 televote)
  7. Os Azeitonas – “Solta a Voz e Canta”  – 9 points (5 Jury+ 4 televote)
  8. Blacci – “Mar No Fim” –  6 points (3 Jury+ 3 televote)
  9. O Vampiro Submarino – “Ao Lado de Mim” – 4 points (2 Jury+ 2 televote)
  10. Cubita – “Uma Mensagem Tua” – 2 points (1 Jury+ 1 televote)

Winner of Festival da Canção 2022 was MARO with the song “saudade, saudade“.

We remind you that Portugal will compete in the second half of the second semi-final in May 12!

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the participation of Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy!

Portugal: The running order of Festival da Canção 2022!

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RTP has just announced the running order for the national final that will select the Portuguese entrant for Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Festival da Canção 2022!

Pongo & Tristany will open the grand final while Pepperoni Passion will close the night!

The running order of the grand final is as follows:

  1. Pongo & Tristany – Dégrá.dê
  2. SYRO –  Ainda Nos Temos
  3. Milhanas – Corpo de Mulher
  4. Inês Homem de Melo – Fome de Viagem
  5. Aurea – Why
  6. Os Quatro E Meia – Amanhã
  7. FF – Bom Esperar Alguém
  8. Diana Castro – Ginger Ale
  9. MARO – saudade, saudade
  10. Pepperoni Passion – Código 30

The results of Festival da Canção 2022 will be decided 50% by the regional juries and the remaining 50% of the result by the public vote. The televoting has already started.

Stay tuned to Eurovision Fun for all the news regarding Portugal’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Source: Eurovoix

Portugal: Interview with Jonas | From Eurovision 2008 to Festival da Canção 2022! (Video)

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After the announcement of his candidacy for this year’s portuguese national final, Festival da Canção 2022, Jonas speaks exclusively to EurovisionFun‘s Apostolos Bogiannos and Paschalis Barmpoutis.

Jonas is one of the candidates of the portuguese national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 and will try to represent his country with the song “Pontas Soltas”.

I’m releasing an album. I’m starting now. I did musical theater, but my main thing is being a fado singer. It feels like I’m beginning again after all these years. It’s an opportunity for people to know about my music.
Pontas soltas is a protuguese expression about something unsolved. It’s about a relationship that ended in the wrong leaving many issues to be solved. It’s a recurring theme in fado music. This kind of music has mysticism. The song was written especially for FdC and I was invited by RTP to participate.

Apart from being a singer, Jonas is also a choreographer. This is something that can help him with his staging in the national final:

I can’t say much about my staging. It’s a surprise. It’s very connected with fado and with dance. I’m very nervous to be compared to other artists. I’m trying not to see anything on the Internet. I like everything to be united and not seen separately.

Despite being anxious by the procedure, Jonas has already some favorites among the festival’s songs. He prefers the songs by Pongo & Tristany and Milhanas.

FdC changed a lot after the victory of Salvador Sobral. Salvador Sobral was an unusual phenomenon in ESC. Noone expected a very simple and fragile song with just him alone on stage would win. It’s good to see all these different styles and songs. It’s much richer now with huge names of the portuguese music, it gives me more will to participate in FdC.

His favorite portuguese entry is “Desfolhada” by Simone de Oliveira (1969) and of course “Senhora do mar” by Vânia Fernandes (2008), where he participated as a back vocalist. Among other Eurovision entries he likes Netta‘s song (Israel 2018).

Being a back vocalist in the portuguese entry in 2008, Jonas spoke about his experience in the contest and about their pleasant coexistence with the greek delegation.

Just before the end of the interview, Jonas sang a part of his song a capella for the readers of eurovisionfun.

Watch the whole interview with Jonas in the video that follows:

 

Portugal: Festival Da Canção 2022 songs to be released on the 21st of January!

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A few minutes ago, the official Instagram account of Festival Da Canção announced that the songs that will compete this year for the representation of Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, will be released this Friday, January the 21st!

The 20 composers that will take part in this year’s  Festival Da Canção are the following:
  • Agir
  • Aurea
  • Blacci
  • Cubita
  • DJ Marfox
  • Fábia Rebordão
  • Fado Bicha
  • FF
  • Joana Espadinha
  • Kumpania Algazarra
  • Maro
  • Norton
  • Os Azeitonas
  • Pedro Marques
  • Pepperoni Passion
  • PZ
  • Syro
  • The Mister Driver
  • Tiago Nogueira (Os Quatro e Meia)
  • Valas

We remind you that ten songs will compete in each of the two semi finals, out of a total of 20. In the Final show we will have 5 qualifiers of each semi final, leading to a total of 10 competing songs. The winning act will get the chance to represent Portugal in Turin!

The detailed schedule of Festival Da Canção 2022 is described below:

  • First Semi on the 5th of March
  • Second Semi on the 7th of March
  • The Grand Final on the 12th of March

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Festival Da Canção and the Portuguese participation at Eurovision 2022!

Portugal: NEEV explains why he takes part in FdC 2021 with an English song!

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Eurovision Buddies continue their interviews with the candidates for this year’s national finals. It was the turn of NEEV, who hopes to represent Portugal, with the song Dancing In The Stars. Read more

Portugal: Confirmed for Eurovision 2021 | Through Festival da Cancao the representative!

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One of the countries that would participate in Eurovision 2020 and had not yet confirmed their participation in the next contest, was Portugal. The country’s public television (RTP) recently announced that it will normally take part in Eurovision 2021, while it has also started the procedures for FdC 2021, through which the representative of Portugal will be selected.

The deadline for those who wish to submit their proposals for FdC 2021 is November 25. Eurovision regulations apply, and the authors must be Portuguese citizens, or permanent residents of the country, or musicians who have released at least one record work within Portugal.

The open invitation concerns two places in the semifinals of FdC 2021, while the remaining 18 will be filled by creators who will be directly invited by the Portuguese public television.

O Festival da Canção 2021 dá os primeiros passos com a seleção dos autores que irão criar as canções da edição do…

Posted by RTP – Festival da Canção on Friday, October 16, 2020

The above announcement practically means that Portugal is added to the group of countries that will choose a new representative for Eurovision 2021. The truth is that Elisa, who was this year the winner of the FdC and representative of Portugal at Eurovision 2020, had foreshadowed RTP’s decision.

Below let us remember once again the song with which Elisa would represent Portugal at Eurovision 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZ48w4epng