Portugal – The names of the 12 acts that have been chosen for Festival da Canção 2012 have today been announced by the Portugese national broadcaster RTP. There were over 400 applications to the festival and two large auditions which were held in Lisbon and Porto. There are also 5 artists on the reserve list, in case any acts withdraw or are disqualified. The composers for the songs have not been announced yet. RTP have decided that the following 12 performers should go through to their national final which will take place on March 10th:
The 12 acts are:
Gerson Melo Santos
António José Fernandes Martins da Silva
Pedro Ricardo Céu Portas e Susana Maria Soares Gonçalves
Filipa Alexandra Nunes Alves de Sousa
Pamela Correia de Brito Salvado
Vânia Osório
Arménio José dos santos Lameirão Pimenta
Pedro Macedo Vidal Tomás
Joana Filipa Leite Silva
Rui Andrade
Carlos Costa
Ricardo Soler
The 5 reserves are:
Raquel Soraia Guerra Romero Conceição
José Hermenegildo Mendes Tavares
Vera Lúcia Afonso Fraga
Bruno Emanuel de Jesus Gomes
Sara Pinto
The final will be decided by televoting and a jury.
Source – RTP
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I want sooo bad a portuguese victory in the ESC. I hope that it will be this year. Btw, I looked for material of the 12 hopefuls but couldn’t find anything on YT
Gerson Santos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFJXQVOO_nw
Filipa Sousa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq-4EtIBYlk&feature=fvwrel
Vânia Osório: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ1utdzh0to
Arménio Pimenta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQs3FKNhFWg
Rui Andrade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubjZm3bFI34
Carlos Costa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCGhjcHI8wg
Ricardo Soler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MrCz-45ovM
Reserves:
Raquel Guerra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLEhB_mOJhQ
Sara Pinto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZDXCngRpg
Well, I do not know most of these names. They hail from talent shows that I don’t follow. I know that Rui Andrade (FdC11) is a good live singer and the cameras love him. Now we just have to wait for the songs. Boa sorte.
It’s time Portugal won ESC, good luck from UK
Good luck to the most underrated country in ESC!
Rui Andrade will win 100%, because he has one more plus – look!
Let it be Rui then… Good luck to sweet shevek’s homeland!
good luck Portugal