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Portugal wins the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest

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Portugal wins the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest

Salvador Sobral from Portugal has won the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ‘Amar Pelos Dois’.

 

Thousands enjoyed three spectacular live shows at Kyiv’s International Exhibition Centre this week, with an expected 200 million viewers tuning in on television. On YouTube, the Grand Final was watched by some 4 million people, breaking records. It was the second-time Ukraine hosted the contest, the first time was in 2005, also in Kyiv.

26 terrific acts sang their hearts out on stage, competing for the ultimate prize; the title of winner of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. However, in the end there could be just one winner and that was Portugal’s Salvador Sobral.

Portugal was followed by Bulgaria’s Kristian Kostov, who won the second Semi-Final. Moldova came third with 374 points, at quite a distance from the winner and the runner-up. Last year’s host Sweden finished 5th, closely behind Belgium, which came 4th.

Spain came last with 5 points, followed closely by Germany with only 6 points. Host country Ukraine came third-last with 36 points. Italy, which was widely tipped as potential winner by press, fans and bookmakers, eventually finished 6th.

Salvador Sobral

Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral – born 28 December 1989 – is a Portuguese singer and a former psychology student. He represented Portugal in theEurovision Sing Contest2017  with “Amar Pelos Dopis”, giving Portugal its first win since their debut in 1964. It was written by Sobral’s sister, singer-songwriter Luísa Sobral. He has several times used his public image in favour of refugees crossing Europe.

Sobral was born in Lisbon, into a former noble family the son of Salvador Luís Cabral Braamcamp Sobral, and is related to politician Hermano José Braamcamp de Almeida Castelo Branco. He has lived in Lisbon most of his life.

At the age of ten, he participated in the TV programme Bravo Bravíssimo, and at 20 he was one of the ten finalists of Ídolos, the Portuguese version of the Idols franchise. As a finalist he sang music by Stevie Wonder, Leonard Cohend and Rui Veloso.  

As an Erasmus student (he studied Psychology in the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, in Lisbon), Salvador moved to Mallorca , where he started singing in bars.

After he left the Psychology program, he applied to the Taller de Músics, a music school in Barcelona, where he finished his studies in 2014.

In 2015 he participated in theVodafone Mexefest and EDP Cool Jazz Festivals. 

In 2016 he released his first album, Excuse Me.

 

Words & Photos: Eurovision Press

 

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