Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010
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Portugal will select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 through the Festival da Canção competition, organised by Portuguese national broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
(RTP). A number of changes will be made to the format of the contest from the past number of years, with two semi-finals and a final being held over one week in March 2010 to select the winner to represent Portugal in Oslo
, Norway
in May 2010.
, an old bullring
, in Lisbon
, which has the ability to hold up to 10,000 people, enabling the biggest Festival da Canção ever.
Until mid January, authors, singers and groups can submit entries for the competition through the RTP website. A expert jury will select between 30 and 35 entries to progress to an online vote, as was introduced in 2009 Contest
. Voters from across the world can vote for their favourite songs over the internet, with the top 24 songs progressing to the semi-final stage. RTP will now allow foreign composers to compete in Festival da Canção, after regulating the contest to Portuguese composers only in 2009. However the competing performers must be Portuguese, and the song must also be performed in the Portuguese language
.
Two semi-finals will be held, each containing 12 songs. Televoting will solely select the top six songs from each semi-final which will progress to the final. In the final the winner will be selected through 50/50 jury and televoting.
Shortly after voting began it was reported by the Eurovision fan community in Portugal that Homens da Luta, current leaders in the voting with the song "Luta assim não dá", had been uploaded on the Internet in May 2009, and performed live in Lisbon in May, breaking Eurovision contest rules. The following day RTP disqualified the song, leaving 29 songs in the contest.
Voting closed at 23:59 GMT on 27 January, with Filipa Azevedo
declared the winner of the voting with 2,992 votes. The top 24 songs will progress to the semi-finals, with the running order decided on 1 February by a draw.
. This will be the first Festival da Canção to be broadcast in HD
.
, and Vanessa were chosen to progress to the final.
11,656 televotes were cast during the semi-final, with Nuno Pinto
winning the semi-final.
, Gonçalo Tavares, and Rui Nova.
23,878 televotes were cast during the second semi-final, with Catarina Pereira
the winner of this semi-final.
was declared the winner with the song "Há dias assim
", which got full marks from the juries and came fourth with the televote. The televoters favourite, Catarina Pereira
, failed to win as she only came fifth with the juries, placing second overall. 42,768 televotes were cast during the final.
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....
(RTP). A number of changes will be made to the format of the contest from the past number of years, with two semi-finals and a final being held over one week in March 2010 to select the winner to represent Portugal in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
in May 2010.
Festival da Canção 2010
Festival da Canção 2010 will be held over one week in early March 2010, with semi-finals on 2 and 4 March and the final set to be held on 6 March. The contest will be held at the Campo PequenoCampo Pequeno bullring
The Campo Pequeno Bullring is the bull ring of Lisbon, Portugal. It is located in the Campo Pequeno Square, by the Avenida da República. After a profound renovation, it re-opened as a multi-event venue in 2006, designed to be used for various events apart from bull fighting. It hosts a range of...
, an old bullring
Bullring
A bullring is an arena where bullfighting is performed. Bullrings are often associated with Spain, but they can also be found in neighboring countries and the New World...
, in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, which has the ability to hold up to 10,000 people, enabling the biggest Festival da Canção ever.
Until mid January, authors, singers and groups can submit entries for the competition through the RTP website. A expert jury will select between 30 and 35 entries to progress to an online vote, as was introduced in 2009 Contest
Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Portugal will be present at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Portugal's entrant was chosen through the Festival da Canção 2009, held on 28 February 2009 by the Portuguese broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal...
. Voters from across the world can vote for their favourite songs over the internet, with the top 24 songs progressing to the semi-final stage. RTP will now allow foreign composers to compete in Festival da Canção, after regulating the contest to Portuguese composers only in 2009. However the competing performers must be Portuguese, and the song must also be performed in the Portuguese language
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
.
Two semi-finals will be held, each containing 12 songs. Televoting will solely select the top six songs from each semi-final which will progress to the final. In the final the winner will be selected through 50/50 jury and televoting.
Online voting
420 songs were submitted to RTP, a slight increase from last year's total. 30 songs were selected by a professional jury of José Poiares, the Portuguese Head of Delegation, and music producers Fernando Martins, Ramón Galarza and To Zé Brito. The 30 songs were announced on 20 January, and 90 second clips of each song were placed on its website on 21 January for the voting.Shortly after voting began it was reported by the Eurovision fan community in Portugal that Homens da Luta, current leaders in the voting with the song "Luta assim não dá", had been uploaded on the Internet in May 2009, and performed live in Lisbon in May, breaking Eurovision contest rules. The following day RTP disqualified the song, leaving 29 songs in the contest.
Voting closed at 23:59 GMT on 27 January, with Filipa Azevedo
Filipa Azevedo
Filipa Daniela Azevedo de Magalhães , is a Portuguese singer. She is currently resident in the United Kingdom while attending music school in London....
declared the winner of the voting with 2,992 votes. The top 24 songs will progress to the semi-finals, with the running order decided on 1 February by a draw.
| Artist | Song | Lyrics (l) / Music (m) | Votes | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filipa Azevedo Filipa Azevedo Filipa Daniela Azevedo de Magalhães , is a Portuguese singer. She is currently resident in the United Kingdom while attending music school in London.... |
"Há dias assim Há dias assim "Há dias assim" is a song composed by Augusto Madureira and performed by Filipa Azevedo, and represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in May 2010 in Oslo, Norway.It's a song that talks about the loneliness of the people by the outside world.... " |
Augusto Madureira (m & l) | 2,992 | 1 |
| Nuno & Fábia | "Amar (Vieste para me salvar)" | Pedro Britohá (m), Pedro Vaz (l) | 2,905 | 2 |
| Nina Pinto | "Meu coração não é meu" | Marios Gligoris (m), Augusto Madureira (l) | 2,385 | 3 |
| Nucha | "Chuva" | Marios Gligoris (m), Nuno Valério (l) | 2,361 | 4 |
| Banda Trocopasso | "O mundo de pernas para o ar" | Jorge Oliveira (m & l) | 2,130 | 5 |
| Filipa Galvão Telles | "O amor não sabe" | José Campos Sousa (m), António Tinoco (l) | 2,119 | 6 |
| Catarina Pereira Catarina Pereira Catarina Pereira is a Portuguese pop singer and actress. She competed in Festival da Canção 2010, with the song "Canta Por Mim", finishing in second place, even winning the public voting.... |
"Canta por mim" | Andrej Babić Andrej Babic Andrej Babić is a Croatian songwriter who has written many Eurovision songs since 2003. He is one of the few songwriters who has written for four countries, having written entries for Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Portugal.... (m), Carlos Coelho (l) |
2,036 | 7 |
| Claudisabel | "Contra tudo e todos" | Jordi Cubino (m), Luis André Florindo (l) | 1,975 | 8 |
| Evelyne Filipe | "A tua voz" | Joachim Vermeulen Windsant (m), Maarten ten Hove (m), Evelyne Filipe (l) | 1,834 | 9 |
| Seis Po' Meia Dúzia | "Pássaro saudade" | Ricardo Rodrigues (m), Irene Lúcia Andrade (l) | 1,701 | 10 |
| Filipe Delgado | "Serei eu" | Ernesto Leite (m & l) | 1,474 | 11 |
| Gonçalo Tavares | "Rios" | Gonçalo Tavares (m & l) | 1,380 | 12 |
| Nuno Pinto | "Fogo lento" | Américo Faria (m & l) | 1,345 | 13 |
| Ouro | "Arco-íris dentro de mim" | José Castanheira (m), Jan Van Dijck (m), Paulo Abreu de Lima (l) | 1,336 | 14 |
| Jorge Guerreiro | "Ai Lisboa" | José Félix (m), Catarina Martins (l) | 1,276 | 15 |
| David Navarro | "Quem é que será?" | J.M. (m & l), Jorge Moreira (m & l), Jorge do Carmo (m & l), Tó Andrade (m & l) | 1,233 | 16 |
| Rui Nova | "Uma canção à Cid (O sol e as estrelas)" | Rui Nova (m & l), Noé Gavina (m) | 1,226 | 17 |
| Gonçalo Madruga | "Cores de um mundo" | Gonçalo Madruga (m & l) | 1,225 | 18 |
| Dennisa | "Meu mundo de sonhos" | Barreto (m), João Sanguinheira (m), João Novo (l) | 1,219 | 19 |
| The Agency | "É assim que as coisas são" | The Agency (m & l) | 1,178 | 20 |
| Terra D'Água | "Amanhã no mar" | Davide Zaccariahá (m), Tiago Espírito Santo (l) | 1,161 | 21 |
| V-Boy | "Quando eu penso em ti" | Mauro Guerreiro (m), Vítor dos Santos (l) | 1,156 | 22 |
| Ricardo Martins | "Caminheiro de mim" | Ricardo Martins (m & l) | 1,143 | 23 |
| Vanessa | "Alvorada" | Nuno Feist (m), Nuno Marques da Silva (l) | 1,142 | 24 |
| Joana Lobo Anta | "Há dias" | Rita Vasconcellos (m), Ana Zanatti (l) | 1,125 | 25 |
| João Pedreira | "Destino qualquer" | João Pedreira (m & l) | 951 | 26 |
| Paulo João Sousa | "Pintado a carvão" | Paulo João Sousa (m & l) | 411 | 27 |
| Davi Duarte | "Serei alguém p'ra ti" | Davi Duarte (m & l) | 311 | 28 |
| Ricardo Levi | "Minha alma lusitana" | Nuno Pires (m), Tó Andrade (l) | 268 | 29 |
Semi-finals
The semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2010 will be held on 2 and 4 March. The 24 songs from that qualified from the online selection will compete for twelve places in the final. The semi-final allocation and running order for the competing songs was held on 1 February at the RTP headquarters in LisbonLisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
. This will be the first Festival da Canção to be broadcast in HD
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
.
Semi-final 1
The first semi-final was held on 2 March. From the twelve competing acts Filipa Galvão Telles, Jorge Guerreiro, The Agency, Nuno Pinto, Filipa AzevedoFilipa Azevedo
Filipa Daniela Azevedo de Magalhães , is a Portuguese singer. She is currently resident in the United Kingdom while attending music school in London....
, and Vanessa were chosen to progress to the final.
11,656 televotes were cast during the semi-final, with Nuno Pinto
Nuno Pinto
Nuno Miguel Sousa Pinto is a Portuguese footballer who plays for C.D. Nacional as a left defender.-External links:**...
winning the semi-final.
| Draw | Artist | Song | Lyrics (l) / Music (m) | Televotes | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nucha | "Chuva" | Marios Gligoris (m), Nuno Valério (l) | 278 | 12 |
| 2 | Ouro | "Arco-íris dentro de mim" | José Castanheira (m), Jan Van Dijck (m), Paulo Abreu de Lima (l) | 757 | 7 |
| 3 | Claudisabel | "Contra tudo e todos" | Jordi Cubino (m), Luis André Florindo (l) | 316 | 10 |
| 4 | Filipa Azevedo Filipa Azevedo Filipa Daniela Azevedo de Magalhães , is a Portuguese singer. She is currently resident in the United Kingdom while attending music school in London.... |
"Há dias assim Há dias assim "Há dias assim" is a song composed by Augusto Madureira and performed by Filipa Azevedo, and represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in May 2010 in Oslo, Norway.It's a song that talks about the loneliness of the people by the outside world.... " |
Augusto Madureira (m & l) | 1,472 | 4 |
| 5 | Jorge Guerreiro | "Ai Lisboa" | José Félix (m), Catarina Martins (l) | 794 | 6 |
| 6 | Dennisa | "Meu mundo de sonhos" | Barreto (m), João Sanguinheira (m), João Novo (l) | 699 | 8 |
| 7 | Nuno Pinto | "Fogo lento" | Américo Faria (m & l) | 2,080 | 1 |
| 8 | Filipa Galvão Telles | "O amor não sabe" | José Campos Sousa (m), António Tinoco (l) | 1,194 | 5 |
| 9 | The Agency | "É assim que as coisas são" | The Agency (m & l) | 1,614 | 3 |
| 10 | Gonçalo Madruga | "Cores de um mundo" | Gonçalo Madruga (m & l) | 290 | 11 |
| 11 | Evelyne Filipe | "A tua voz" | Joachim Vermeulen Windsant (m), Maarten ten Hove (m), Evelyne Filipe (l) | 527 | 9 |
| 12 | Vanessa | "Alvorada" | Nuno Feist (m), Nuno Marques da Silva (l) | 1,635 | 2 |
Semi-final 2
The second semi-final was held on 4 March. Six acts were selected from the 12 act line-up to progress to the final: Banda Trocopasso, Ricardo Martins, Seis Po' Meia Dúzia, Catarina PereiraCatarina Pereira
Catarina Pereira is a Portuguese pop singer and actress. She competed in Festival da Canção 2010, with the song "Canta Por Mim", finishing in second place, even winning the public voting....
, Gonçalo Tavares, and Rui Nova.
23,878 televotes were cast during the second semi-final, with Catarina Pereira
Catarina Pereira
Catarina Pereira is a Portuguese pop singer and actress. She competed in Festival da Canção 2010, with the song "Canta Por Mim", finishing in second place, even winning the public voting....
the winner of this semi-final.
| Draw | Artist | Song | Lyrics (l) / Music (m) | Televotes | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rui Nova | "Uma canção à Cid (O sol e as estrelas)" | Rui Nova (m & l), Noé Gavina (m) | 1,689 | 6 |
| 2 | Ricardo Martins | "Caminheiro de mim" | Ricardo Martins (m & l) | 4,226 | 2 |
| 3 | Nuno & Fábia | "Amar (Vieste para me salvar)" | Pedro Britohá (m), Pedro Vaz (l) | 854 | 9 |
| 4 | David Navarro | "Quem é que será?" | Jorge Moreira (m & l), Jorge do Carmo (m & l), Tó Andrade (m & l) | 835 | 10 |
| 5 | Catarina Pereira Catarina Pereira Catarina Pereira is a Portuguese pop singer and actress. She competed in Festival da Canção 2010, with the song "Canta Por Mim", finishing in second place, even winning the public voting.... |
"Canta por mim" | Andrej Babić Andrej Babic Andrej Babić is a Croatian songwriter who has written many Eurovision songs since 2003. He is one of the few songwriters who has written for four countries, having written entries for Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Portugal.... (m), Carlos Coelho (l) |
4,614 | 1 |
| 6 | Filipe Delgado | "Serei eu" | Ernesto Leite (m & l) | 946 | 8 |
| 7 | V-Boy | "Quando eu penso em ti" | Mauro Guerreiro (m), Vítor dos Santos (l) | 464 | 12 |
| 8 | Terra D'Água | "Amanhã no mar" | Davide Zaccariahá (m), Tiago Espírito Santo (l) | 828 | 11 |
| 9 | Nina Pinto | "Meu coração não é meu" | Marios Gligoris (m), Augusto Madureira (l) | 972 | 7 |
| 10 | Gonçalo Tavares | "Rios" | Gonçalo Tavares (m & l) | 1,783 | 5 |
| 11 | Banda Trocopasso | "O mundo de pernas para o ar" | Jorge Oliveira (m & l) | 3,978 | 3 |
| 12 | Seis Po' Meia Dúzia | "Pássaro saudade" | Ricardo Rodrigues (m), Irene Lúcia Andrade (l) | 2,689 | 4 |
Final
The final of Festival da Canção 2010 was held on 6 March. Filipa AzevedoFilipa Azevedo
Filipa Daniela Azevedo de Magalhães , is a Portuguese singer. She is currently resident in the United Kingdom while attending music school in London....
was declared the winner with the song "Há dias assim
Há dias assim
"Há dias assim" is a song composed by Augusto Madureira and performed by Filipa Azevedo, and represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in May 2010 in Oslo, Norway.It's a song that talks about the loneliness of the people by the outside world....
", which got full marks from the juries and came fourth with the televote. The televoters favourite, Catarina Pereira
Catarina Pereira
Catarina Pereira is a Portuguese pop singer and actress. She competed in Festival da Canção 2010, with the song "Canta Por Mim", finishing in second place, even winning the public voting....
, failed to win as she only came fifth with the juries, placing second overall. 42,768 televotes were cast during the final.
| Draw | Artist | Song | Lyrics (l) / Music (m) | Jury | Televotes | Total | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Filipa Galvão Telles | "O amor não sabe" | José Campos Sousa (m), António Tinoco (l) | 0 | 1,238 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | Banda Trocopasso | "O mundo de pernas para o ar" | Jorge Oliveira (m & l) | 5 | 4,608 | 8 | 13 | 4 |
| 3 | Jorge Guerreiro | "Ai Lisboa" | José Félix (m), Catarina Martins (l) | 1 | 794 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 4 | Ricardo Martins | "Caminheiro de mim" | Ricardo Martins (m & l) | 2 | 8,167 | 10 | 12 | 7 |
| 5 | The Agency | "É assim que as coisas são" | The Agency (m & l) | 10 | 1,850 | 2 | 12 | 5 |
| 6 | Seis Po' Meia Dúzia | "Pássaro saudade" | Ricardo Rodrigues (m), Irene Lúcia Andrade (l) | 3 | 2,282 | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| 7 | Nuno Pinto | "Fogo lento" | Américo Faria (m & l) | 7 | 2,539 | 5 | 12 | 6 |
| 8 | Catarina Pereira Catarina Pereira Catarina Pereira is a Portuguese pop singer and actress. She competed in Festival da Canção 2010, with the song "Canta Por Mim", finishing in second place, even winning the public voting.... |
"Canta por mim" | Andrej Babić Andrej Babic Andrej Babić is a Croatian songwriter who has written many Eurovision songs since 2003. He is one of the few songwriters who has written for four countries, having written entries for Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Portugal.... (m), Carlos Coelho (l) |
6 | 10,920 | 12 | 18 | 2 |
| 9 | Filipa Azevedo Filipa Azevedo Filipa Daniela Azevedo de Magalhães , is a Portuguese singer. She is currently resident in the United Kingdom while attending music school in London.... |
"Há dias assim" | Augusto Madureira (m & l) | 12 | 3,237 | 7 | 19 | 1 |
| 10 | Gonçalo Tavares | "Rios" | Gonçalo Tavares (m & l) | 4 | 2,278 | 3 | 7 | 9 |
| 11 | Vanessa | "Alvorada" | Nuno Feist (m), Nuno Marques da Silva (l) | 8 | 3,182 | 6 | 14 | 3 |
| 12 | Rui Nova | "Uma canção à Cid (O sol e as estrelas)" | Rui Nova (m & l), Noé Gavina (m) | 0 | 1,673 | 1 | 1 | 11 |