Portugal’s Festival Da Canção selected Filipa Sousa singing “Vida Minha” on March 10th 2012. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0yc3ynJmh0] This year, RTP devoted the festival to fado, marking the accession of traditional Portuguese music to Unesco’s Oral and Intangible World Heritage list. It […]
Well, Super Month is now over and there are still 16 countries left to select or present their entries. Next week will see the Russian, Swedish, Romanian, Moldovan, and Portuguese finals, the presentations of the […]
In part one we saw how the Salazar regime used Eurovision as a propaganda tool to promote itself and its brutal colonial war. In part two, find out how Post-revolutionary Portugal both celebrated its new […]
Last year’s Portuguese entry “A Luta e alegria” (“the struggle is happiness”) was a comical allusion to 1970s Revolutionary Portugal. In the first of two reports covering Portuguese entries in the 1960s and 1970s, we examine how […]