The Eurovision Song Contest ended this year, the most voices were received by the singer Salvador Sobral from Portugal and his song "Amar Pelos Dois". Eurovision 2018 will be held in Portugal.
Frankly speaking, I didn't like the song very much. No, she is of course melodic and pleasant, but in order for the winner of Eurovision to be a direct winner, I don't know how she hooked the voters, that they
voted for her with such an advantage, besides, it seemed to me, the execution
the songs are somehow uneven or something, although it may have been so conceived, I don't know (if, of course, take into account his state of health, then he is forgiven). But apparently. the audience and the jury know better, so this is the result. In addition, the audience supported the young man very well, created a wonderful atmosphere during his performance, we must pay tribute to them.
Here are footage from his performance at the competition.
The song performed by the winner turns out to have been written by his sister Louise. This lyrical composition tells about the beloved who threw the "main character" of the song. In it, he promises to love his beloved very much if she returns. Who knows, perhaps the history of the song is "written off" from the life of Salvador himself, at least there is no such information anywhere.
Or maybe in this way his sister wanted to help arrange the singer's personal life.
Salvador studied psychology, but chose music. She walks through life with her older sister Louise. Together they devoted themselves to music.
Since childhood, he is seriously ill - he has a heart defect, she did not find any information about why he was not operated on in childhood, because if it is done in infancy, then the person then lives a full life, besides, their family is not simple, but has noble roots. Due to his illness, he did not participate in rehearsals and press conferences; this mission was entrusted to Louise. Due to his illness, the organizers of the competition changed the rules. He needs an expensive operation, and the doctors are recommending heart transplant surgery. He needs a donor heart and it is desirable to have a transplant by the end of 2017. Therefore, we all can only wish good luck and health to the performer. And his fans pray for him.
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Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral announced the winner of the Eurovision-2017 music contest, which was held on the night of May 14 in Kiev. This is the first victory for Portugal in the history of the competition. Here's what you need to know about the singer who charmed the whole of Europe.
Who is Salvador Sobral?
Little is known about the young man. He was born on December 28, 1989 in Lisbon, where he later spent most of his life. However, Sobral lived in New York for a while.
At the age of ten, Sobral took part in a TV show Bravo bravissimo, by the age of 20 he became one of the finalists of the Portuguese version of the famous program Pop Idol - there he took seventh place in the third season of the project, performing songs Stevie Wonder and Leonard Cohen.
Collected studied psychology at the Institute of Applied Psychology in Lisbon. After leaving the University of Lisbon, he entered the prestigious Academy of Music in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he completed his studies in 2014. He began his great musical career with the indie pop group Noki Woi, which he left by 2016. In the same year, Salvador released his first and rather successful solo album, Excuse me.
El Salvador has a congenital heart defect, he is forced to live in a sparing regime, so he prepared for a performance at Eurovision and did not rehearse as actively as the other participants. He is often accompanied by his sister Louise Sobral, who wrote a song for him Amar pelos dois, with which he won the competition. According to some reports, the sister could replace Sobral if his health condition did not allow him to go on stage. According to Western media, the three-minute journey to the main stage of the competition was too much for Sobral, and he sang, standing on a small platform in the middle of the hall.
This year the representative of Portugal won quite confidently. In a competition that thanks to last year's triumph ukrainian singer Jamaly took place in Kiev, 26 applicants competed for the crystal microphone. Unlike most previous contests, the results of the voting of the jury of the participating countries were first announced, and the results of the audience vote were announced at the very end.
The main competitors of El Salvador were representing Bulgaria Christian Kostov and italian Francesco Gabbani... But in the end, Christian took second place, and Francesco did sixth. The representative of Portugal scored 758 points, the Bulgarian - 615, and the third Moldovan group Sunstroke Project- 374. Thus, the next Eurovision Song Contest in 2018 will be held in Portugal. It is curious that the Russian singer Yulia Samoilova, not admitted to Kiev by the Security Service of Ukraine, rejoiced at Sobral's victory.
Eurovision 2017 winner Salvador Sobral will take a crystal microphone to Portugal. Hromadske reveals 5 basic facts about the musician who triumphed in Kiev.
Salvador and family
Salvador Vilar Braamkamp Sobral is no ordinary Portuguese. He is a descendant of the da Silva noble family, whose roots date back to the middle of the 17th century. Salvador has a sister, Louise, who is also a singer. It was she who wrote the song "Amar pelos dois", which the musician performed at Eurovision. Interestingly, after the announcement of the result, Salvador performed an encore song with his sister.
El Salvador and Pop Idol
At home, El Salvador has been known since 2009, when he took part in the third season of the Portuguese analogue of the British show Pop Idol. True, he did not become the winner, but was content with only the seventh place. His sister Louise was the best at this - in 2007 she took third place in the first season of the same competition.
El Salvador and music
After the Pop Idol show, Salvador did not stay in the music industry, but continued to study psychology. True, not for long. Over time, the music outweighed and the guy entered the prestigious Taller of Musics school in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhich he graduated in 2014, after which he began to actively perform. The following year, Sobral appeared at the Vodafone Mexefest and EDP Cool Jazz festivals. In 2016, he released his debut album Exuse Me.
El Salvador and Citizenship
Collected is actively interested in political life and closely follows the problems of refugees. He came to the press conference of the winners of the semifinals wearing an S. O. S. Refugees ”(“ Help the refugees ”). He declared:
"If I am here and Europe is looking at me, then the least I can do is a humanitarian message. People arrive in Europe on plastic boats, and they require documents from them to get into the country. These are not emigrants, they are refugees who are fleeing from death. Make no mistake. There is a lot of bureaucracy in the Greek, Turkish and Italian refugee camps and we must create legal and safe routes from these countries to their final destinations. "
El Salvador and Eurovision
Portugal skipped Eurovision in 2016. El Salvador won the national selection, however, due to chronic heart problems (he has had a heart defect since childhood) until recently, he did not know that he would be able to take part in the final competition. The organizers of Eurovision made an exception for the musician and he was able to miss the rehearsals of the semi-final. Collected successfully overcame the qualification, after which the winning 758 points, beating the Bulgarian performer.
Eurovision, together with Salvador Sobral, flies to Portugal.
Portugal won the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest and now many want to know more about its representative - Salvador Sobral, who brought his country forward by a wide margin.
El Salvador turned 27 on December 28, he was born in Lisbon in 1989. I want to note right away that he is not only a musician in the family, his older sister is the famous Portuguese folk singer Luisa Sobral, she accompanied her brother to Eurovision 2017 in Kiev. The Salvador family is from a noble family, full name young man sounds like this: Salvador Vilar Bramkamp Sobral.
Salvador Sobral was always interested in music, he began his public appearances with the Ídolos show, it was 2010, the young performer was only 19 years old, maybe for this reason he did not have enthusiastic impressions from participating in a television show, he himself had not had time figure out what he wants.
Salvador Sobral was supposed to become a psychologist, he even entered a prestigious institute in Lisbon, but even then he understood that his element was music. For this very reason, when he arrived in Mallorca (where Salvador got there on a special program), the young man paid little attention to teaching, and instead performed in bars, where he performed his favorite songs by Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. Salvador Sobral studied jazz, he studied for him at one of the most prestigious schools in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bcreated his own group there and even released a live album.
When Salvador Sobral finally returned to his homeland, he almost immediately began to work on his solo album, it was the result of all his wanderings, he called the album "Excuse Me", which proved that he was successful as a singer.
Salvador Sobral has heart problems and, unfortunately, very serious ones, he has a heart defect and in the very near future the young man will have a difficult operation, although a donor is required for it. Due to his illness, El Salvador had a special rehearsal regime, and his sister Louise did not just accompany his brother, in an emergency she would replace him on stage.
But, fortunately, everything went well, Salvador Sobral won, excellent performance and well-deserved victory !.
Of course, the young man has his own social pages. networks, you can find them by clicking on the links- Facebook (salvadorsobralmusic), and Instagram.
The Portuguese Salvador Sobral won the hearts of Eurovision spectators, but not all of them know that his own heart suffers from a serious illness. You can find out about this and many other facts from the life of the 27-year-old singer in this article, reports hyser.com.ua.
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The first Eurovision winner in the history of Portugal
Before the victory of Salvador Sobrala, Portugal was one of the anti-record holders of Eurovision. The country has been participating in the competition since 1964, but during this time its best result was 6th place in 1996. Three times she took the last place. The last time Portugal participated in the Eurovision final was in 2010, and her best result in the 2000s was 13th place.
Therefore, Sobral's victory for Portugal is an event of historical significance. Just imagine that the Ukrainian national football team won the European Championship. Here, too, everything is exactly the same.
2. Salvador Sobral does not consider himself a national hero
The eyeliner about football in the previous paragraph appeared for a reason - the fact is that Sobral considers the football player Cristiano Ronaldo to be the real national hero of Portugal.
“I'm not a hero. The heroes look different. Here Cristiano Ronaldo is a hero, and I am just an artist, "- this is how El Salvador answered the question of journalists whether he considers himself a national hero.
By the way, the Portuguese national team, headed by Ronaldo, won the European Championship, unlike our team. Salvador Sobral never mentioned his love for football, but if he already remembered the name of Ronaldo, then the game of millions is not indifferent to him.
3. The singer has noble roots
This guy's modesty and shyness does not betray him as a descendant of aristocrats, but Salvador is not at all an ordinary resident of Portugal. He belongs to the da Silva noble family, whose history began in the middle of the 17th century.
4. Salvador Sobral could be a psychologist
Since childhood, Salvador was attracted to music, but after graduation he went to study as a psychologist. He was going to graduate from the Lisbon Institute of Applied Psychology and even got on a student exchange program in the United States. Only there the craving for music finally won out: instead of couples, Sobral preferred to sing in bars the songs of his idols: Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. During this period, El Salvador realized that music for him is much more important than psychology.
5. At home, they learned about Sobral in 2009
In Portugal, Salvador Sobral made a name for himself after participating in the third season of the Portuguese version of the popular British talent show Pop Idol. Although Sobral did not manage to win (he took only 7th place), the audience remembered him. By the way, two years earlier, his sister Louise took 3rd place in the same show. Collected a little more balanced between music and psychology, but then completely devoted himself to what he loved. In 2014, Salvador graduated from the prestigious Taller of Musics school in Barcelona. And only in 2016 he released his first album, Exuse Me.
6. Victory song Amar Pelos Dois was written by the musician's sister during the day
The lyrical ballad, with which Sobral won the hearts of the European audience, was written by his sister Louise. The song was composed in a great rush, since it was only a day before the start of the national selection in Portugal, and El Salvador had nothing at all!
In the end, Louise created this romantic masterpiece in one day. El Salvador liked the composition literally from the first note. Collected said that he was offered to change the song and even give it to another performer, but he did not.
“I think I won just because I sang a really great song. Louise is an amazing composer! Buy songs from her, otherwise we spent our entire family budget on Eurovision, ”- after the victory, Salvador did not forget to thank his sister and promote her as a composer.
By the way, after the announcement of the winner, Sobral performed his song as an encore with his sister.
7. El Salvador suffers from serious heart disease
Since childhood, Sobral has been experiencing health problems - he was diagnosed with a heart defect. Literally on the eve of Eurovision, he underwent two operations. In this regard, Sobral arrived in Kiev last of the participants. The organizers went to meet El Salvador and allowed him to skip the rehearsal of the semi-final - then his sister spoke instead.
The media write that El Salvador needs a heart transplant within a year, but the singer himself does not like to talk about his health and does not comment on this information in any way.
8. The singer takes an active civic stance
Collected closely follows political life in Europe and draws attention to the problem of refugees. In particular, he came to the press conference after the Eurovision semi-final in a T-shirt with the inscription “S. O. S. Refugees "(" Save the Refugees ").
“If I am here and Europe is looking at me, then the least I can do is a humanitarian message. People arrive in Europe on plastic boats, and they require documents to get into the country. These are not emigrants, they are refugees fleeing death. Make no mistakes, ”Sobral said then.
9. Salvador was not the favorite of the competition
When the bookmakers first started accepting bets, Sobral was in fifth place on the list of favorites. It accepted bets with a ratio of 13: 1.
After performing in the semifinals, Sobral entered the top three, but was still inferior to the Bulgarian Christian Kostov and the main favorite of the Eurovision Song Contest, the Italian Francesco Gabbani, who was given a chance to win with a 2: 1 odds. However, Kostov damaged his image with contradictory statements about his desire to break the main award of the competition in Moscow. Gabbani disappointed with a weak number, which was clearly losing to the sensational video for his competition song Occidentali’s Karma.
10. Collected sang in one of the Kiev bars
The Portuguese in Kiev decided not to be bored at the hotel, but to feel the taste nightlife Ukrainian capital. He visited one of the Kiev bars and even sang live there. The video of Sobral's impromptu performance was posted online by the visitors of the establishment.
First, Collected in a bar listened to the music of the Kiev group Groovin 'High, and then he wanted to perform several of his songs. The musicians happily played along with their Portuguese colleague, not suspecting that they were sharing the stage with the future Eurovision winner.
