Portugal Entry to Eurovision 1997

Celia Lawson sings "Antes do adeus"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• PORTUGAL
• 1997
• EUROVISION
• CELIA
• LAWSON
• ANTES
• ADEUS

[luxfragil]

This is a beautiful song. Once again, Portugal was cheated.

[dren84]

It didn't score a single point? Unbelievable. But those were good times of ESC and a wide choice of good songs (even my country, Poland, performed well). Those times would never come back if such a shitty voting system remains.

This song 9/10. Brilliant.

[SuperJohnnykay]

Note this beautiful young lady puts 110 percent into performance,lilting contralto,clear diction,clean and artful delivery,perfect camera working,graceful and with good stage manners.Null points-totally wrong!!Saudade.john from Australia

[TheJuicyBunj]

I don't understand the fuss about this song. OK maybe zero points was cold, but it was never going to win. First, we've got what could either be the blues brothers or bible salesmen mumbling in the background, backing for a song that goes around and around in circles, coming to an extremely brief and powerless climax only to seemingly repeat the same boring theme all over again. If you want to see ACTUALLY cheated entries, look at 1985 and 1988 or 1996 and 1981.

[ralphundfrank]

One of my all-time fav! Sorry portugal!

[ricky19751904]

Most of the times,the Country that wins sings in a language that its not their own.

English,why?

I thought the eurovision was to show the diversity of culture in Europe.

The reazon that Portugal never wins.One of them its that we always sing in OUR language,another its country giving points to some countries not because of the quality of the song but for political reazons.What a joke.

Why bother sending someone to sing,if the outcome its almost predictable

[96Mlm]

@buzzaki It was kinda pointless but they did that to pay homage to a Portuguese singer named Pedro Abrunhosa, who is pretty famous in Portugal and always wears shades. It's his trademark. Besides, he was also included in the lyrics (in english "and a CD from Abrunhosa"). But that was pointless because he is only known in Portugal. I think the biggest mistake in staging was her dress. I mean, the stage was already dark, and they dressed her in black. She looked a lot better in the National Final.

[verkaforever]

Surely one of the songs that least deserved nil points in ESC history. I think it is a lovely song.

[rickis58]

I decided to view all the Eurovision entries that scored no points, and this was probably the least deserving of that. Pretty woman, decent voice, fairly emotional song, really couldn't figure. For truly dreadful, check out from this same year Tor Endresen of Norway singing "San Francisco," a travesty on a great city no matter what language.

[buzzaki]

Beautiful song, excellent singer.... TRAGIC staging. Whose idea was it to put the backing singers in priest frocks and biker glasses?

[klarinetta]

Oh boy poor Portugal they truly are the most underrated country in the history of the contest.