The Portuguese national broadcaster revealed today the names of the contestants and songs for the national final, “Festival da Canção 2025”. Twenty contestants will participate in the selection to represent the country at Eurovision 2025.
The Portuguese national broadcaster, RTP, has revealed for the first time the twenty contestants for the local national final “Festival da Canção 2025”. In addition to the contestants, the songs they submitted to compete for representing their country at Eurovision 2025 in Basel were also disclosed. The list of composers had already been published in November. The list of contestants includes several familiar names.
Festival da Canção Contestants and Their Songs
- A Cantadeira – “Responso À Mulher“
- Bluay – “Ninguém“
- Bombazine – “Apago Tudo“
- Capital da Bulgária – “Lisboa“
- Diana Vilarinho – “Cotovia“
- Du Nothin – “Sobre Nós“
- Emmy Curl – “Rapsódia da Paz“
- Fernando Daniel – “Medo“
- Henka – “I Wanna Destroy U“
- Inês Marques Lucas – “Quantos Queres“
- Jéssica Pina – “Calafrio“
- Josh – “Tristeza“
- Luca Argel ft. Pri Azevedo – “Quem Foi“
- Marco Rodrigues – “A Minha Casa“
- Margarida Campelo – “Eu Sei Que O Amor“
- Napa – “Deslocado“
- Peculiar – “Adamastor“
- Rita Sampaio – “Voltas“
- Tota – “á-tê-xis“
- Xico Gaiato – “Ai Senhor“
Click on the song title to listen!
Notable Participants
Among the list, several well-known names can be identified:
Singer Fernando Daniel participated in the Portuguese national final in 2017 with the song “Poema a dois“. He finished fifth out of eight contestants in the final.
Singer Jéssica Pina was one of the backing vocalists for the Belgian entry at Eurovision 2004!
Marco Rodrigues participated in Festival da Canção in 2008 with his song “Em água e sal“. He finished in a respectable third place.
Competition Format
In each semi-final, ten songs will compete, with six songs from each heat advancing to the final, as is done every year. It appears that 12 songs will compete in the grand final for the right to represent Portugal at Eurovision 2025. The winner of the final will be determined, according to the rules each year, by a combination of public voting (50%) and jury voting (50%), similar to the Eurovision competition itself.
Portuguese National Final Dates:
First Semi-Final – Saturday, February 22, at RTP studios in Lisbon.
Second Semi-Final – Saturday, March 1, at RTP studios in Lisbon.
The Grand Final – Saturday, March 8, at RTP studios in Lisbon.
Portugal at Eurovision 2024
“Grito” is the name of the song performed by the singer Iolanda, who was chosen to represent Portugal after winning the Portuguese national finals. Portugal advanced to the final after placing eighth in the first semi-final with 58 points, and in the grand final, it finished in tenth place with 152 points.
This marks the fourth consecutive time that Portugal has reached the final, a feat it had not achieved before. Additionally, this is the third time since 2021 that Portugal has ended up on the left side of the scoreboard, twice among the top ten. These are respectable achievements for a country that was until recently considered one of the least successful in the competition.
Source: festivaldacancao.rtp
Eurovision 2025: This will be Portugal’s 56th participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Portugal joined the competition in 1964 and achieved its best result in Eurovision 2017 when singer Salvador Sobral won first place with the song “Amar pelos dois.”
