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The group from Beja won the Festival da Canção and will represent our country in Austria in May.
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It was from a dinner in 2022 that the group that will represent Portugal at Eurovision in May emerged.
The song has already been adapted and translated into several languages.
Before their big adventure at Eurovision, the Festival winners take a stroll through Beja, a city proud of these Bandidos do Cante.
Bandidos do Cante won the Festival da Canção and are heading to Eurovision. They were the public's favourite, but the jury preferred João Ribeiro. Plus, the controversial comments from Timothée Chalamet.
The band from Beja, which won the 60th edition of the Festival da Canção and is heading to Eurovision with Rosa, does not want to mix art with politics.
It was at a dinner in 2022 that the group was formed, which went on to win this year's edition of the Festival da Canção and will represent Portugal at Eurovision in May. A short career for long-time friends who fell in love with Alentejo singing early on, but which already boasts a series of successes. To Vienna, Bandidos do Cante will take a 'Rosa'. What did they do to get here?
The question is: what will become of RTP — the state broadcaster — amid all the controversy.
The 16 songs that will take part in the 60th edition of the Festival da Canção have been revealed.
The President of RTP's Board of Directors told the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Communication, Youth and Sport that the public broadcaster had been pressured to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest because of Israel's participation.
The chairman of RTP's Board of Directors, Nicolau Santos, said today that the organisation faced “enormous pressure” not to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest because Israel was participating.
In April, on Posto Emissor, Luísa Sobral returned to the day she wrote the song which, sung by her brother Salvador Sobral, won Eurovision in 2017. “There was a week left to submit it and I still hadn't written it. My son was crying a lot, so I remember saying to my husband: 'Take him, I'm going to the bedroom to write.'” To remember at the end of the year.
