Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Portugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, having selected their entry through a televised national final, organised by Portuguese broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP).
| Eurovision Song Contest 2011 | ||||
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Festival da Canção 2011 | |||
| Selection date(s) | Online vote 20–27 January 2011 Final 5 March 2011 | |||
| Selected entrant | Homens da Luta | |||
| Selected song | "A luta é alegria" | |||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Failed to qualify (18th, 22 points) | |||
| Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Before Eurovision
Festival da Canção 2011
Festival da Canção 2011 was the 47th edition of Festival da Canção, the music competition that selects Portugal's entries for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Format
The competition featured twenty-four songs. All twenty-four songs first faced an online vote held between 20 and 27 January 2011 where the top twelve songs advanced to the final. In the final, held on 5 March 2011, the winner was determined by a combination of the votes from 20 regional juries (50%) and televoting (50%).
Competing entries
Artists and songwriters were able to submit their song entries until 16 January 2011. Songwriters of any nationality were allowed to submit entries, but songs were required to be performed by citizens of Portugal and in the Portuguese language.[1][2] From all submissions received, a selection committee chose twenty-four entries for the online voting.
Online voting
After the twenty-four competing entries were announced, an online public vote ran from 20 January 2011 until 27 January 2011, enabling users to vote for their favorite entries each day.[3] The twelve entries with the most votes advanced to the final of Festival da Canção 2011.[4][5]
| Online vote – 20 January 2011 – 27 January 2011 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist | Song | Lyrics (l) / Music (m) | Votes | Place |
| Homens da Luta | "A luta é alegria" | Vasco Duarte (m), Jel (l) | 17,374 | 1 |
| Alma Real | "Não quero Falar" | Thorsten Rath (m), Sérgio de Oliveira (l) | 12,431 | 13 |
| Miguel Gizzas | "Amor Cruzado" | Miguel Gizzas (m & l) | — | —[6] |
| António José Silva | "Por Ti" | António José Silva (m & l) | — | —[6] |
| Bettershell | "Um Sinal" | Bettershell (m), Isaías Ricardo de Oliveira (l) | — | —[6] |
| Sandra Dória | "Aprende a Voar (nas asas do amor)" | Luís Filipe Aguilar (m & l) | 2,470 | 18 |
| Woodu | "O Tempo Resolve Tudo" | Bem Talbot (m), José Cid (m), Ana Sofia Cid (l) | 261 | 21 |
| Emanuel Santos | "Não estamos sós" | Ralph Siegel (m), Bernd Meinunger (m), Pedro Coelho (l) | 694 | 20 |
| Nádia Correia | "Sonhos do Verbo Amar" | Ricardo Verdelho (m & l) | 11,651 | 15 |
| Henrique Feist | "Quase a Voar" | Nuno Feist (m), José Fanha (l) | 13,844 | 8 |
| Wanda Stuart | "Chegar à tua voz" | Paul Teixeira da Sousa (m & l) | 14,394 | 2 |
| Tânia Tavares | "Se esse Dia Chegar" | Gorgi (m), Tânia Tavares, (l) Nuno Valério (l) | 13,592 | 11 |
| Rui Andrade | "Em Nome do Amor" | Artur Guimarães (m), Carlos Meireles (l) | 13,656 | 10 |
| Carla Ribeiro | "Só Acontece uma Vez" | João Sanguilheira (m), João Novo (l) | 4,862 | 17 |
| Inês Bernardo | "Deixa o Meu Lugar" | Leonel Monteiro (m), Joana Ferraz (l) | 14,105 | 3 |
| Axel | "Boom Boom Yeah" | José Félix (m), Axel (l) | 13,448 | 12 |
| Carla Pires | "Voar Alto" | Artur Guimarães (m), Paulo Pires de Lima (l) | 11,967 | 14 |
| 7Saias | "Embalo do Coração" | Páquito C. Braziel (m), Ana Rita Rebello (l) | 14,056 | 6 |
| Carla Moreno | "Sobrevivo" | Andrej Babić (m), Carlos Coelho (l) | 13,868 | 7 |
| Filipa Ruas | "Tensão" | Daniel Nilsson (m), Henrik Szabo (m), Johnny Sanchez (m), Jonas Gladnikoff (m), Mike Eriksson (m), Filipa Ruas (l), Pedro Sá (l) | 14,058 | 5 |
| Daniela Galbin | "Amor A Sério" | Pedro Saraiva (m), Daniela Galbin (l) | 829 | 19 |
| Nuno Norte | "São os Barcos de Lisboa" | Carlos Massa (m & l) | 13,817 | 9 |
| Pop Pin's | "Esta Noite Vamos Curtir" | José Cardoso (m), Guy Ribeiro (l) | 7,325 | 16 |
| Ricardo Sousa | "O mar, o vento, e as estrelas" | Carlos Freitas (m), Fernando Guerreiro (l) | 14,062 | 4 |
Final
The final was held on 5 March 2011 at the Teatro Camões in Lisbon, hosted by Sílvia Alberto and Joana Teles (green room host). The 12 qualifying artists from the online voting held in January 2011 competed during the show, and the winner was determined by a combination of the votes from 20 regional juries (50%) and televoting (50%).[7][8]
| Final – 5 March 2011 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | ||
| Votes | Points | Percentage | Points | |||||
| 1 | 7Saias | "Embalo do Coração" | 129 | 8 | 4.12% | 2 | 10 | 4 |
| 2 | Carla Moreno | "Sobrevivo" | 33 | 1 | 4.74% | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | Nuno Norte | "São os Barcos de Lisboa" | 174 | 12 | 5.75% | 5 | 17 | 2 |
| 4 | Rui Andrade | "Em Nome do Amor" | 106 | 5 | 15.85% | 10 | 15 | 3 |
| 5 | Henrique Feist | "Quase a Voar" | 96 | 4 | 8.11% | 6 | 10 | 4 |
| 6 | Wanda Stuart | "Chegar à tua voz" | 116 | 7 | 4.55% | 3 | 10 | 4 |
| 7 | Tânia Tavares | "Se esse Dia Chegar" | 116 | 7 | 2.54% | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| 8 | Inês Bernardo | "Deixa o Meu Lugar" | 161 | 10 | 2.49% | 0 | 10 | 4 |
| 9 | Filipa Ruas | "Tensão" | 38 | 2 | 11.34% | 8 | 10 | 4 |
| 10 | Homens da Luta | "A luta é alegria" | 113 | 6 | 27.11% | 12 | 18 | 1 |
| 11 | Axel | "Boom Boom Yeah" | 4 | 0 | 2.56% | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 12 | Ricardo Sousa | "O mar, o vento, e as estrelas" | 74 | 3 | 10.85% | 7 | 10 | 4 |
| Detailed Regional Jury Votes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draw | Song | Aveiro | Beja | Braga | Bragança | Castelo Branco |
Coimbra | Évora | Faro | Madeira | Guarda | Leiria | Lisbon | Açores | Portalegre | Porto | Santarém | Setúbal | Viana do Castelo |
Vila Real | Viseu | Total |
| 1 | "Embalo do Coração" | 6 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 129 |
| 2 | "Sobrevivo" | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 33 | ||||||||||
| 3 | "São os Barcos de Lisboa" | 4 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 174 |
| 4 | "Em Nome do Amor" | 12 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 106 | |
| 5 | "Quase a Voar" | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 96 | |
| 6 | "Chegar à tua voz" | 8 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 116 |
| 7 | "Se esse Dia Chegar" | 5 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 116 |
| 8 | "Deixa o Meu Lugar" | 10 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 161 |
| 9 | "Tensão" | 4 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 38 | |||||||||
| 10 | "A luta é alegria" | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 113 |
| 11 | "Boom Boom Yeah" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 12 | "O mar, o vento, e as estrelas" | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 74 | |||
Controversy
The results of the Portuguese selection competition caused much controversy. After the victory of Homens da Luta was announced, several fans of the Eurovision Song Contest left the venue in protest. At the end of the show, the members of the band were interviewed by the press, including oikotimes.com. In a statement in English, the lead member Jel presented the band as “the struggling people of Portugal. We represent the people that don’t like the way things are in Portugal and in Europe and we are going to be in Düsseldorf to tell the world”. Talking about the entry “A luta é alegria”, Jel stated that “this song is our weapon!” After leaving the venue, to attend a previously scheduled concert, the singer added, “People are joining the struggle, every time you hear someone singing the song in the streets, it is someone else that is joining the struggle”.[9] At the venue, the members of Homens da Luta appealed to everybody to join the struggle.
At Eurovision
Portugal entered in sixteenth position in the first semi-final on 10 May, but didn't qualify for the final with an eighteenth place with 22 points, marking the first time since 2007 that Portugal failed to advance to the final.
Split results
- In the Semi-final 1 Portugal came 18th with 22 points: the public awarded Portugal 15th place with 39 points and the jury awarded 19th place with 6 points.
Points awarded by Portugal[10]
Semi-final 1
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Final
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| 12 points | 10 points | 8 points | 7 points | 6 points |
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| 5 points | 4 points | 3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
References
- Costa, Nelson (5 November 2010). "PORTUGAL - Festival da Canção back in 2011". Oikotimes.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
- Costa, Nelson (8 November 2010). "PORTUGAL - Portugal decides on March 5". Oikotimes.com. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
- RTP (28 January 2011). "12 CANÇÕES APURADAS PARA O FC2011". RTP. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
- Hondal, Victor (19 November 2010). "Portugal: RTP announces Festival da Canção 2011". EscToday.com. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- Costa, Nelson (19 November 2010). "Submissions begins today in Portugal". www.oikotimes.com. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Costa, Nelson (28 January 2011). "RTP confirms the 12 finalists". Oikotimes.com. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
- Costa, Nelson (1 February 2011). "RTP announce Festival da Canção final running order". Oikotimes.com. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- Conceição, Ivo (8 March 2011). "Homens da Luta - Festival da Canção 2011 @ Jel e Ivo Conceição (entrevista)". YouTube. Missing or empty
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External links
- (in Portuguese) RTP - Festival da Canção 2011