Portugal: The composers of Festival da Canção 2018 have been announced!
The Portuguese public broadcaster RTP announced the names of the 26 songwriters, who will take part in the national selection of Festival da Canção for Eurovision 2018, which after the victory of Salvador Sobral will be hosted in Portugal’s capital, Lisbon.
The names of the 26 composers are:
- Aline Frazão
- Armando Teixeira
- Benjamin
- Bruno Cardoso
- Capicua
- Diogo Clemente
- Diogo Piçarra
- Francisco Rebelo
- Fernando Tordo
- Isaura
- João Afonso
- Jorge Palma
- José Cid
- JP Simões
- Júlio Resende
- Mallu Magalhães
- Miguel Ângelo
- Minta
- Nuno Rafael
- Paulo Flores
- Paulo Praça
- Tito Paris
- Janeiro
- Daniela Onis
- Peter Serrado
- Rita Dias
The first 22 composers of the previous list were selected from the country’s public television. Among them we can see some former Portuguese representatives, such as Fernando Tordo, who represented Portugal in 1973 with the song Tourada (10th place) and José Cid, who, with the song Um Grande, Grande Amor in 1980, managed to reach the 7th place of the scoreboard.
Beyond the first 22 composers, who, as we we have already said, were RTP’s choice, the 23rd in the list was chosen by last year’s winners Luísa and Salvador Sobral, the 24th came from the Masterclass broadcast of the Antena 1 radio network, while a committee chose the last two of the applications lodged.
Festival da Canção will also be consisted of two semifinals on February 18 and 25 and the final will take place on March 4 in Guimarães.
