By the end of the night we will know which of the remaining 5 artists has won Festival da Canção and will sing for Portugal at Eurovision. Since the last semifinal on March 8, more than 800 of our readers have voted for their favourite. After counting and verifying the results, we can now reveal that Catarina Pereira is your overwhelming favourite. Apparently you think her happy-clapyy song “Mea culpa” will help start the party Copenhagen. Catarina: you have nothing to apologise for!
You can watch the Portuguese final live this evening from 21:15 CET on the RTP web site. You can also see the final results of our poll below. And if you want to review all the performances from the semi-final, then click here.
Who do you think will win tonight? Does Catarina have what it takes?
Festival da Canção Poll Results
1. Catarina Pereira — Mea culpa: 443 votes, 54.89%
2. Suzy — Quero ser tua: 159 votes, 19.7%
3. Zana — Nas asas da sorte: 85 votes, 10.53%
4. Rui Andrade — Ao teu encontro: 81 votes, 10.04%
5. Raquel Guerra — Sonhos roubados: 39 votes, 4.83%
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That “head shaking” did Ukraine already in 2008!
Catarina and Suzy have very catchy songs, I guess that’s why they dominated this poll, and I wouldn’t mind if either of them win, but I prefer either Zana or Rui.
Catarina’s song is indeed VERY dated, and again it will get completely lost in the semi-final in Copenhagen….!
This is the best out of the five and I’ve actually grown to like it a little. I think Catarina will dominate tonight, especially that it’s 100% televote, and she dominated the televote in 2010 with a similar song. Pretty sure it’d be able to qualify, but only if her live vocals can improve.
LOVE THIS SONG, MUST WIN, PLEASE PORTUGAL VOTE FOR HER!!! LOVE IT
If Portugal want good result they must send Zana. Catarina is not good, she had better song in 2010, this song wili be flop by juries because she has not good vocal and almost all song with her sing 3 back singers . I m disapoint, because Rui don t have good song this year. He had amazing song in 2011 and 2012 with both finished on 3 rd place in final. With his song from 2011 he wili be the winner of this year national final. My TOP 5 1. Zana 2. Rui 3. Raquel 4. Catarina 5. Suzy… Read more »
I’m so glad Portugal is back at Eurovision. A very strong final in Portugal. I love all these songs. So it doens’t really matter wich song wins because anyway Portugal will have a worthy entry in Copenhagen. Any of these 5 songs should bring Portugal to the final.
Welcome back Portugal and good luck!
Alyona Lanskaya had a dated song last year and Belarus made the final. Portugal has a good song and deserves go to the final. There are many contemporary songs boring. At least this outdated is catchy
I really hope that Portugal choose her and she manage to qualify to the final! After all these years, Portugal deserves a good place 🙂
I’m not butthurt over Sanna’s win. I knew she was going to win from the very beginning, doofus. “Mea Culpa” is better than that rubbish…
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Well, someone’s a little butthurt over Sanna’s win. Seriously, stop harping on about it Jordan.
This blog has nothing to do with sanna … You continue to go on about it every where ..
@Dar
I don’t care if Ace Wilder didn’t win. Anything would have been better than that mess that won.
@ Jordan , you’re still going on about undo ….
Are you feeling ok .. Are you ace wilder undercover
To the two noobs below me,
At least this is better than the outdated, over-hyped rubbish which is “Undo”. Now go to your closet and pray forgiveness…
Yes it is very 2005 … Mid table 2005 ..
No qualifier for Portugal this year …
I didn’t know we was back in Eurovision 2005. Huh we must have time travelled.
But seriously this song is sooooo dated.