From Lisbon… to Lisbon! Host country Portugal moves on with its search of their 2018 home-soil act
From Studio 1 of RTP’s headquarters in Lisbon, the second semi-final of this year’s Portuguese music festival will see the remaining 13 contestants of Festival Da Canção 2018 battle it out for a spot in the grand final.
Take a look at the 13 acts competing in this heat below:
ARTIST(S) – SONG TITLE – COMPOSER(S)
- Susana Travassos – “A Mensageira”(Aline Frazão)
- Lili – “O Voo das Cegonhas” (Armando Teixeira)
- Sequin – “All Over Again”(Bruno Cardoso)
- Tamin – “Sobre Nós” (Capicua)
- Daniela Onís – “Para Lá Do Rio” (Daniela Onís)
- Diogo Piçarra – “Canção do Fim” (Diogo Piçarra)
- David Pessoa – “Amor Veloz” (Francisco Rebelo)
- Cláudia Pascoal – “O Jardim” (Isaura)
- Rita Marques – “Anda Daí” (João Afonso)
- Dora Fidalgo – “Arco-Íris” (Miguel Ângelo)
- Minnie & Rhayra – “Patati Patata” (Paulo Flores)
- Peter Serrado – “Sunset” (Peter Serrado)
- Maria Ines Paris – “Bandeira Azul”(Tito Paris)
Tonight’s show will see Sónia Araújo & Tânia Ribas de Oliveira delivering a great show to the Portuguese audience which seems to be very exciting after their Eurovision victory in Kiev. The upcoming Grand Final on March 4th will be presented by one of this year’s ESC hosts Filomena Cautela alongside Pedro Fernandes live from Multiusos Pavilion in Guimarães.
This is how the stage will look like for the two semifinals of this year’s competition, which also might remind to the one used last year during the 2017 semi’s.
Semifinal qualifiers as well as the Portuguese entrant in May will be chosen by following the 50/50 procedure by the equal combination of the votes of an expert panel, whose members you will find by the following lines, and the televote. The ones which get to reach the first 7 spots of the scoreboard ranking will make it through to Guimarães on March 4th, next Sunday.
RTP has presented a renewed jury panel with Júlio Isidro as the spokesperson. These are the names of its eight members:
- Júlio Isidro
- Tozé Brito
- Carlão
- Sara Tavares
- Luísa Sobral
- Ana Bacalhau
- António Avelar Pinho
- Mário Lopes
You can watch the festival live from 20:00 onwards on our multi-window platform which you can also tune in to watch the final of Selectia Nationala in Romania.
Which is the act you are most excited for? Who will get to qualify to the Grand Final on March 4th?