Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
The 47th Festival da Canção found on March 5, 2011 at the Camões Theatre in Lisbon and served as the Portuguese preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2011, which was held in May 2011 in Dusseldorf.
Regulate
On 19 November 2010 the Portuguese started broadcasting - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal ( RTP) - the call for contributions, which could be submitted for the next two months. The songs had written in Portuguese, its artists and songwriters Portuguese citizens. However, the composer could come from other countries.
A jury selected from all 407 entries from 24 songs that could be evaluated in an Internet vote of 20 to 27 January 2011. Only eineinhalbminüte snippets of the songs were used. The twelve articles with the most votes moved into the finals on March 5. The winner there decided 20 juries ( one for each of the districts of Portugal, and for the autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira ) and the audience size with a share of 50%.
Internet voting
The songs Por ti by António José Silva, To sinal Better Shell and Cupid cruzado by Miguel Gizzas were disqualified because the songs were released in advance. Among the remaining 21 songs, the comedy group Homens da Luta prevailed, who participated in the previous year at the Trials, whose contribution was disqualified.
Not the finals managed the Ralph Siegel -Bernd Meinunger composition Não estamos SOS by Emanuel Santos, as well as been written by José Cid O tempo resolve tudo of woodu. Seal and Meinunger were responsible in the past 30 years for many posts at the Euro Vision Song Contest, José Cid represented Portugal at the Euro Vision Song Contest 1980. More former ESC composers, like the Croatian Andrej Babić or the Swede Jonas Gladnikoff, however, managed with Sobrevivo of Carla Moreno or Tensão of Filipa Ruas made it into the main round of the Festival da Canção.
Although less songs than in the previous year could be evaluated, the number of voices rose to nearly five times, namely on 222764 votes (2010: 42998 ).
Final
On 5 March 2011, the finale of the festival Canção found there in the Camões Theatre in the capital Lisbon instead. The discussion was - as in previous years - Sílvia Alberto, from the Green Room reported Joana Teles. A guest appearance was the Maltese representative Glen Vella, who sang an a cappella version of his song One Life.
RTP1 beamed the shipment within Portugal from over RTP Internacional and a live stream could be received in the rest of the world.
When the vote is revealed large differences between the juries and the televoting. For example, the winning group received Homens da Luta only six points from the judges, as they won the televoting. Conversely, given by Nuno Norte as a favorite of the jury just five points from the viewers. Inês Bernardo, considered by the judges with the second highest score, did not get a point from the spectators. Thus was achieved as a total out of only 18 of the possible 24 points. As favorites were next to Homens da Luta also Filipa Ruas, and Carla Moreno.
Euro Vision Song Contest
Homens da Luta were seen in the Euro Vision Song Contest 2011 first semi-final at the 16th Artist after the Hungarian and in front of the Lithuanian Post. The group members Rui Rechena, Tânia Lopes, Ana Figueredo, Hugo OSGA and Nuno Vasco Duarte and wore clothes of different professions was written (including construction worker and soldier ), and held up signs on which the struggle is joy in different languages.
In the mixed vote from the jury and televoting they reached the 18th place with 22 points in 19 participants, so not qualified for the finals. If only jury vote they had reached the last place, the audience sat A luta é alegria ( German "The struggle is joy " ) on the 15th place.