The Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 will take place today live from Lisbon, Portugal. Twenty-six countries will compete at today’s show willing to get the Crystal Microphone
The Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 will be aired from Lisbon’s Altice Arena where approximately 20.000 spectators will be able to witness the show live. After two exciting semi-finals and despite quite surprising facts which did not accomplish the predictions prior to these past few days, the list of finalists is as it follows:
Country | Performer | Song |
MELOVIN | “Under The Ladder” | |
Amaia & Alfred | “Tu Canción” | |
Lea Sirk | “Hvala, ne!” | |
Ieva Zasimauskaitė | “When We’re Old” | |
Cesár Sampson | “Nobody But You” | |
Elina Nechayeva | “La Forza” | |
Alexander Rybak | “That’s How You Write A Song” | |
Cláudia Pascoal | “O Jardim” | |
SuRie | “Storm” | |
Sanja Ilić & Balkanika | “Nova Deca” | |
Michael Schulte | “You Let Me Walk Alone” | |
Eugent Bushpepa | “Mall” | |
Madame Monsieur | “Mercy” | |
Mikolas Josef | “Lie To Me” | |
Rasmussen | “Higher Ground” | |
Jessica Mauboy | “We Got Love” | |
Saara Aalto | “Monsters” | |
EQUINOX | “Bones” | |
DoReDoS | “My Lucky Day” | |
Benjamin Ingrosso | “Dance You Off” | |
AWS | “Viszlát Nyár” | |
Netta | “TOY” | |
Waylon | “Outlaw In ‘Em” | |
Ryan O’Shaughnessy | “Together” | |
Eleni Foureira | “Fuego” | |
Ermal Meta e Fabrizio Moro | “Non Mi Avete Fatto Niente” |
How will the winner be chosen?
Viewers from all the countries taking part in Eurovision 2018 are invited to vote via the official app, telephone and/or SMS. The voting window will open after the last song has been performed and will close around 15 minutes later. Televoters will determine 50% of the outcome while the professional juries will decide the other half of the overall results after watching the performances of yesterday’s Jury Semi-Final show.
The Show
The Grand Final of Eurovision 2018 will be hosted by Filomena Cautela, Sílvia Alberto, Daniela Ruah and Catarina Furtado.
Today’s show will feature ‘fado’ and musical tradition of Portugal. Ana Moura and Mariza, two of the greatest performers in modern fado will join on stage for the very first time during the opening act. The winner of the last year’s Eurovision Song Contest Salvador Sobral will also perform on stage along with the Brazilian composer Caetano Veloso.
The musical background during the flag parade will be provided by world champion scratch artists Beatbombers while DJ Branko will create an electronic journey of music around the world.
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