This Thursday, Portuguese band The Black Mamba qualified for the finals of the Eurovisão da Canção festival, which is scheduled for Saturday. A group of Marco Pombinho, Tatanka, Guilherme Salgueiro and Rui Pedro Piti stamped their ticket in the second semifinal of the song contest.
The second semi-final was also attended by representatives of Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Iceland, San Marino, Switzerland, Greece and Finland.
On Tuesday, performers and groups representing Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, Israel, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine have already been selected in the first semifinal.
In addition to these 20, which scored a pass to the semi-finals, six are automatically added: the representatives of the Netherlands, who acted as the host country this year, and the rivals of the so-called “big five”, five European countries that are direct and automatic clearance: France. Spain, Italy, Germany and Great Britain.
A year later, with no Eurovision being held due to the Covid-19 pandemic, The Black Mamba were selected to compete this year for winning the country’s RTP Song Festival, which is nominated annually by a national representative.
Thus, the Portuguese group replaced Eliza (translator) and Marta Carvalho (composer), the 2020 winners who could not participate in Eurovision because the release was canceled due to the pandemic, as well as Conan Osiris (2019), Claudia Pascoal (translator ) and Isaura (songwriter) – winners in 2018 – and Luisa Sobral (songwriter) and Salvador Sobral (translator), who won the Song Festival in 2017 and then became the first and so far only Portuguese Eurovision winners.
