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Portugal: Festival da Canção Grand Finale Preview
This weekend, Portuguese broadcaster RTP will finish up its three-week festival of song with the grand final of its long-running national final Festival da Canção, which will be used to choose the Portuguese representative to the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam.
Over the last two weeks, the Portuguese public alongside a panel of jury members have selected a total of ten participants from two semifinals to compete for the title from a pool of twenty songs, including eighteen of which were directly invited to participate by RTP and two who won an open call for submissions.
Poll: Who should win semi-final one of Portugal’s Festival da Canção 2021?
Festival da Canção 2021 – Rules
The 50/50 voting system is back, but with different forms for the semi-finals and the grand final. A single jury and the public televote will decide which songs will advance to the final. In case of a tie, the professional jury will decide which ones advance.
In the grand final, the decision will be split by televote and seven regional juries. This time around, if we have a tie, the televote will prevail.
The first semi-final will be presented by Jorge Gabriel and Sónia Araújo. The following week, the second semi will be presented by Tânia Ribas de Oliveira and José Carlos Malato. The grand final will be hosted by Eurovision 2018 host Filomena Cautela as well as Vasco Palmeirim. Inês Lopes Gonçalves will be the green room host.
Artists and songs for Portugal s Festival Da Canção 2021 revealed
Overnight, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) have announced the 20 artists and songs that will compete in this year’s Festival da Canção. The contest has been used as the selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest since 1964, (except for a couple of years when Operação Triunfo and internal selections were used in the early 2000s).
The full line-up of songs and artists were announced in each semi-final they will be competing in.
These are the artists and songs competing:
First Semi-Final
IAN- ‘Mundo’
Second Semi-Final