Tag: Eurovision Song Contest

Mimicat

Portugal Music

Marisa Isabel Lopes Mena, (Coimbra, October 25, 1984), better known as Mimicat, is a Portuguese pop and soul singer and songwriter. She won the Festival RTP da Canção in 2023. She introduced herself to the world in 2014, but recorded her first album at the age of 9. Self-taught singer-songwriter from a very young age, she spent her teens between school and recording studios. She participated, aged just 15 and with the artistic name of Izamena, in the 3rd semifinal of the Festival RTP da Canção 2001 with the song…

Salvador Sobral

Portugal Music

Salvador Thiam Vilar Braamcamp Sobral born 28 December 1989, is a Portuguese singer, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 for Portugal with the song “Amar pelos dois,” written and composed by his sister, Luísa Sobral. In doing so, he gave Portugal its first ever win in the contest since its debut in 1964, ending the longest winless run by a country in Eurovision history (53 years). Sobral and his entry hold the Eurovision record for the highest-scoring winner, having earned a total of 758 points under the current voting…

Gebriela Schaff

Portugal Music

Born in 1960 in Basel, Switzerland, to a Swiss father and Italian mother, she moved to Porto in 1971. Still a student at Colégio Alemão, she meets José Calvário at Lisbon Airport to whom she reveals that she loved to sing. She is invited by the maestro to audition. On that day she would record the three themes of the album “Hoje Há Conquinhas Amanhã, Não Sabe” by Banda do Casaco. In 1978 she achieved great success with the single “Põe os Teus Braços à Volta de Mim”. The following…

Vânia Fernandes

Portugal Music

Vânia Sofia Olim Marote de Ribeiro Fernandes (born 25 September 1985) is a Portuguese singer from Funchal, Madeira (Portugal). Known for her powerful stage presence, as well as her prominent and versatile voice, Vânia has participated in several singing contests and performed in public in both her home island of Madeira and on the mainland of Portugal since 1997. In 2007, Vânia won Portuguese public television’s talent contest, Operação Triunfo (a kind of Star Academy). That same year, she completed her professional music studies and training in singing, including jazz,…

Armando Gama

Portugal Music

Armando António Capelo Diniz da Gama (1 April 1954 – 17 January 2022) was a Portuguese singer-songwriter and baritone opera singer, whose physical trademark for decades was his shoulder-length jet black hair. Gama grew up in Portuguese Angola, an overseas territory of Portugal by then, and lived there until the age of 17. Upon moving to mainland Portugal in 1971, he scored the first of many No. 1 hits on the Portuguese music charts. He was well-versed in performing piano and solfège, having studied them at the music conservatory in…

Eduardo Nascimento

Portugal Music

Eduardo Nascimento was the singer who won the Festival RTP da Canção on February 25, 1967, still held at Tobis Studios, in Lisbon. With the Rocks debut album released shortly before, the singer was the first singer of a “modern” group to win the event and show Europe that Portugal was also attentive to the best “pop waves” – thanks here to the musician’s talent Nuno Nazareth Fernandes and lyricist João Magalhães Pereira. He became the first performer of African origin in the Eurovision Song Contest, showing that Europe’s richness…