Recently, Portugal confirmed their participation for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. Broadcaster RTP have now confirmed the list of composers for Festival da Canção 2025. Overall, more than 600 entries were submitted for the six open submission slots.
Festival da Canção 2025
In a recent press release, RTP the national broadcaster of Portugal announced the 20 composers for Festival da Canção 2025. Of the 20 composers, 14 were invited directly by RTP. The remaining six were picked from the 633 entries submitted to the broadcaster. The list of selected composers are as follows:
Invited composers by RTP
- A Cantadeira
- Beato
- Bluay
- Bombazine
- Emmy Curl
- EU.CLIDES
- Fernando Daniel
- Jéssica Pina
- Luca Argel
- Marco Rodrigues
- Margarida Campelo
- Os Napa
- Peculiar
- Tiago Sampaio
Composers from open submissions
- Capital da Bulgária
- Diana Vilarinho
- Henka
- Inês Marques Lucas
- JOSH
- Xico Gaiato
The songs are expected to be released at a later date. Next year, the live shows of Festival da Canção 2025 will air on RTP1. Overall, 20 songs will feature in two Semi-Finals taking place February 22 and March 1. The Grand Final will conclude on March 8 with the winner being determined by 50% jury voting and 50% public voting.
Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest
Out of 55 participations to date, Portugal has won the Eurovision Song Contest only once – in 2017 with Salvador Sobral’s ‘Amar pelos dois‘. To this day, it holds the record for the most points in the history of the contest with 758. Their next best result was with ‘O meu coração não tem cor‘ by Lúcia Moniz back in 1996, which finished in sixth place. Currently, the Iberian nation is enjoying a run of four qualifications in a row.
Earlier this year, Iolanda won Festival da Canção 2024 with ‘Grito’. During the Malmö contest, ‘Grito’ achieved 10th place in the Grand Final with 152 points. Thus, becoming only their third top 10 placing this century.
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