Portugal – The Festival Da Canção reached its conclusion tonight with Filipa Sousa being chosen to go to Azerbaijan. The song is called “Vida Minha“ (My Life). Portugal will take part in semi-final 2 on the 22nd of May. The lengthy voting system saw all 20 Portugese regions voting. Filipa won well with Cumplice’s song [...]
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Portugal: Festival Da Canção Chooses Filipa Sousa for Eurovision
Posted: March 11, 2012 by hulluna in Portugal67
Portugal: The 12 Artists of Festival Da Canção 2012
Posted: January 15, 2012 by isabelabueno in PortugalPortugal – RTP, the Portuguese national broadcaster, announced who the 12 competitors are taking part of Festival da Canção 2012, and the songwriters will be revealed in the next days. Many of the competitors this year took part on talent shows around Portugal, or have already tried to represent the country in past editions of [...]
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, [...]
Portugal: Over 400 Submissions for Festival Da Canção
Posted: January 2, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in PortugalPortugal – The Portuguese national broadcaster RTP has announced that over 400 songs have been submitted for this year’s “Festival da Canção”. The submission deadline for the country’s 2012 selection for the Eurovision Song Contest ended on Saturday. The newcomers among the submissions will have to sing their songs in front of a special [...]
Portugal Confirms Participation: Festival da Canção in March
Posted: November 26, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in PortugalPortugal – OGAE Portugal report on their website that a reliable source at the Portuguese national broadcaster RTP has told them that Portugal will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 and will determine its candidate through a national final to be held in March. The Portuguese participation had been in doubt as the [...]
EBU Supervisor: Homens Da Luta Will Not Be Disqualified
Posted: March 12, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in PortugalPortugal – The choice to send “Homens Da Luta” to Eurovision has caused controversy in Portugal and has prompted demands to disqualify the song due to its allegedly political lyrics. Now the supervisor of the EBU, Jon Ola Sand has told the Portuguese press that the song will most probably not be disqualified. Sand said [...]
Discuss: Is Homens Da Luta’s Entry for Portugal Too Political?
Posted: March 9, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in PortugalPortugal – Last Saturday Portugal chose “Homens Da Luta” as their representatives at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and since then a storm of protests against and of support for the song has taken Portuguese internet forums. Some people suggest, that the song “A Luta é Alegria” will probably be disqualified due to its “political [...]
Portugal sends “Homens Da Luta – Luta e Alégria” to Düsseldorf
Posted: March 6, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in PortugalPortugal – After an excruciatingly long national final, Portugal has chosen Homens Da Luta as their representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. After all 20 juries, from the Portuguese regions, had attributed points to their favourites Homnes Da Luta were far from winning the competition (6 points from the juries), but the televote largely [...]
Portugal Decides – Final Of Festival Da Canção 2011
Posted: March 5, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in PortugalPortugal – Tonight, Portugal will decide whom to send to the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. Twelve artist will compete for the right to fly the Portuguese flag in Düsseldorf next May. The winner will be decided by a combination of 50% televotes and 50% jury votes. The host is Silvia Alberto, for the fourth [...]
Eurovision recap (25)
Posted: February 3, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Finland, FYR Macedonia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, SloveniaToday with news from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Slovenia, Macedonia, Finland, the Netherlands and Portugal Netherlands – The 3Js, the Dutch representatives at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will probably sing their entry “Je vecht nooit alleen” (I don’t fight alone”) in its English version. Armenia – Gohar Gasparyan,the Armenian Head of Delegation has told OGAE [...]
Portugal – The Portuguese national broadcaster RTP has announced the 12 finalists of their national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In the online voting the lucky qualifiers got the most votes. Homens da Luta won the vote with a very big margin and are thus now the favourites to win the “Festival da Canção [...]
Portugal: Online voting starts + disqualification
Posted: January 21, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in PortugalPortugal – Sometimes you have to ask yourself, why television channels do not check for violations of the rules before they publish participant lists for their national selections. RTP obviously didn’t and so they had to disqualify a song after the online voting had already started. “Amor cruzado” by Miguel Gizza has been disqualified due [...]
Portugal: The participants of Festival da Canção
Posted: January 20, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in PortugalPortugal – The Portuguese national broadcaster RTP has revealed the 24 participants of the online voting for their national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. 12 of the 24 songs will participate in the national final to be held on March 5, in Lisbon. Among the participating composers are Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger. [...]
Portugal – RTP has just revealed the rules and the date of “Festival da Canção”, which is traditionally their national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. The final will be broadcast on March 5. Interested artists may submit their propositions until January 16. A jury will select 20 to 24 songs out of this pool [...]
Portugal – oikotimes.com reports today that Portugal will once again use the Festival da Canção as their selection method for the Eurovision Song Contest. Portuguese television RTP will accept submissions until mid January on their website. Artists and authors must be of Portuguese citizenship, while the composer may be a foreigner. An expert jury will [...]
ESC History: How a Eurovision song started a revolution
Posted: October 11, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in ESC History, PortugalPortugal – The 19th Eurovision Song Contest 1974 in Brighton was an important one in every respect. Not only did four young Swedes start their worldwide career there, which made them the most successful band Eurovision ever “produced”, but another song became important in a political sense. During the contest “E depois do adeus” by [...]
Some of the votes of the National Juries of this year’s Eurovision are starting to pour in. We now have the information for Romania, Turkey and Portugal. They seem to indicate that winner Lena from Germany got more points from the televoters and Tom Dice’s great place for Belgium relied mostly on jury votes, but [...]
