[AdSense-B] Last year’s Eurovision Song Contest host, Portugal, has organized the final of the Festival da Canção. After 2 semi-finals, 8 finalists competed in today’s shows which were : Calema – A Dois Mariana Bragada – Mar doce Matay – Perfeito Surma – Pugna NBC – Igual a ti Madrepaz – Mundo a mudar Conan Osiris – Telemoveis Ana Claudia – Incercia Today’s …

[AdSense-B] Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular character was once asked in the 1982 classic, “Conan, what is best in life?” After reviewing your response to yesterday’s Festival da Canção 2019 poll, Conan Osiris will respond with the exact same line as Arnold’s Barbarian: “To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you!” And with a whopping 75% of the vote, #YOU voted …

[AdSense-B] Can #YOU believe it? We are already at the penultimate weekend of the national selection season, but what a bumper few weeks we are expecting, with 24 songs still to come for this year’s contest. Tonight will see five of these songs confirmed as the selection processes hot up across Europe. There’s also the small matter of Andra Chansen …

[AdSense-B] Eight contestants are left in tonight’s Festival da Canção 2019, and having seen them being put through their paces in two Semi-Finals, we want to know who #YOU would love to see represent Portugal at Eurovision 2019! Make sure to vote in our poll below and we’ll reveal your favourite right before the final kicks off at 22:00 CET …

Last year, they had the honour of finally showing Lisbon to the world and host our beloved contest, but now everything is back to normal and we’re one step closer to knowing who will represent Portugal this year. [AdSense-B] Semi-Final 2 Last week, the first semi-final of  Festival da Canção 2019 took place, and tonight the second semi-final took place. Just like …

[AdSense-B] With Portugal’s selection “Festival da Cançao” having its second Semi-Final this weekend, James sat down to look at the acts in the second semi-final. Are there any potential Eurovision winners in the Portuguese selection once more? Lara Laquiz – “O lugar” James – 6 – A fairly ordinary pop banger. Lara as a vocalist does not leave much of …

[AdSense-B] Semifinal 1 of FdC has concluded in Portugal! Tonight, we heard the first half of the songs, and we have our first four qualifiers for the final two weeks from now! Tonight’s lineup was as follows: Ana Cláudia – “Inércia” João Campos – “É o que é” Soraia Tavares – “O meu sonho” Calema – “A dois” Conan Osíris …

[AdSense-B] There’s always one weekend in the Eurovision calendar that promises to deliver, and that special weekend is upon us – it’s Super Saturday 2019! And this year, it’s a whopper. No less than eleven selection shows are taking place across Europe to make it the busiest night by far of this year’s selection calendar. Tonight sees the return of …

[AdSense-B] With the honeymoon period over after the first ever hosting of Eurovision on Portuguese soil in 2018, attention turn to the difficult third contest as Tel Aviv’s edition looms. How will Portugal cope with the challenge of going for a second win? The field of Festival da Cançao 2019 has been out for a few weeks now, so we …

This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not represent the views of the other editors, the EBU or escYOUnited as a whole. It occurred to me last week, during the results live stream after the second semi-final of Destination Eurovision, that the debate had centred on which of the two semi-final winners would be the …