Portugal in the Eurovision: Festival da Canção 2010

domingo, 28 de Junho de 2009

Festival da Canção 2010

RTP has confirmed that Festival da Canção, the Portuguese national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, will return in 2010. The show will have the same characteristics from last year's edition, including the online voting and the juries from each district in the final.
More details about Festival da Canção 2010 will be revealed at the end of this year. Until then, some changes are being studied in order to improve the quality of the contest.

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"Portugal in the Eurovision" is the name of the Portuguese blog created by Cláudio Silva, a well known eurofan from Portugal. The blog is dedicated to the history of Portugal in all different kinds of shows created by EBU (European Broadcasting Union). Here you can find all articles related to the participation of Portugal in the Eurovision Song and Dance Contests.

Please feel free to read every single article on this blog and to write a comment, giving your opinion about the subject that most attracted your attention.

I hope that you have a lot of fun while reading the blog and voting in the polls.

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In 1969, Simone de Oliveira, a Portuguese singer and actress, represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest, which was broadcast in Madrid, Spain.

The song “Desfolhada Portuguesa” was considered one of the best entries of that year. Unfortunately, due to the political ideology in Portugal, the Fascism, established by António de Oliveira Salazar, Europe refused to have the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, making all the countries voting against Portugal. The song only received 1 point from France, 1 from The Netherlands and 2 points from Spain.

In 2005, Portugal was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest by 2B and the song “Amar”.

2B performed at the semi-final in Kyiv (Ukraine) with reasonable hopes for qualifying for the final. Unfortunately, a faulty microphone for the female singer and overall technical mishaps resulted in a disastrous performance. As a result, the song did not qualify, finishing 17th in the semi-final.

Even though one of the EBU rules state that songs can be performed again if the first performance is hindered by technical faults, the song was not repeated.

The disastrous performance on the semi-final and all the problems with the Portuguese delegation during their stay in Kyiv made some journalists think about the possibility of “sabotage” against Portugal, still no proves have been given to be sure about that idea.

domingo, 28 de Junho de 2009

Festival da Canção 2010

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