It happened! Salvador Sobral won the Eurovision Song Contest

For the first time, Portugal is the great winner of the Eurovision Song Contest: Salvador Sobral took over Europe with "Amar por dois", theme composed by his sister, Luísa Sobral.

Salvador Sobral won the Eurovision Song Contest that took place tonight in Kiev, Ukraine. The interpreter of "Amar a dois", song composed by her sister, also singer Luísa Sobral, got 758 points. It is the first time that Portugal, participant in the contest since 1964, wins the contest.

Italy, the other favorite to win, was in fourth place with 334 points.

In the voting of the jury, our country received 12 points, the highest score, from Sweden, San Marino, Latvia, Israel, Spain, France, Lithuania, Armenia, Iceland, Serbia, Switzerland, Holland, Georgia, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, United Kingdom and Czech Republic. "Salvador has a sweet and magical voice," said the Lithuanian spokeswoman.

Portugal also received the highest vote of the public, thus winning. People shouted "Portugal" in Kiev.

The Bulgaria was the only country that did not give points to Portugal. Our country gave the maximum score to Azerbaijan.

The victory among the 26 countries in the contest gives to the young singer the best classification to date in the event of the European Union of Radiofusión, surpassing the result achieved by Lúcia Moniz - the sixth place - in 1996.

Salvador Sobral was one of the three interpreters, among all 26 contestants, to sing in their mother tongue.



On Twitter, the #Eurovision, # esc2017 hashtags have reached the top two among the most talked about subjects on the social network. In third place, since 21h40, #Portugal. To home, Salvador Sobral also brought the Marcel Bezençon Award for the interpretation of "Amar pelos dois", a distinction attributed by the commentators of the event at the International Exhibition Center of Kiev. Luísa Sobral was distinguished by the authorship of the best composition for the competition, a homage attributed by the composers of the other countries.

Original Source: https://goo.gl/qlJnTS
Chosen and Translated by: Daniela.
Revised by: Badriah.

The song festival and Eurovision of the song have been part of Portuguese culture for more than 50 years. We had already participated in the contest since 1964, being the first song "Prayer". We could not get any point in this song and in 1996, more than 30 years later, we were in sixth place, with a song performed by Lúcia Moniz. Until then this was our best rating. This year, with the fantastic music of Salvador Sobral, we won the contest and filled the country with pride. We were one of the only countries that had never won, even though we were in the contest for more than a half century.