Musically varied of the ESC in 2017 was, in the end it managed a small, delicate ballad. Salvador Sobral with “Amor Pelos Dois” wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
The 27-year-old Salvador Sobral didn’t need a big stage to captivate the audience. Modestly, he stood on a sort of proscenium, and wore the delicate jazz ballad “Amar Pelos Dois” (For both of us in front of love), written by his sister Luisa beach for him. A total of 18 Times, the famous “Twelve Points” awarded by national juries in the Portuguese – from all European countries and also the audience in the whole of Europe, the maximum number of points you gave him. In the end, he had an impressive points tally of 758. It is the first Time ever that Portugal will win the ESC, although the country join in for 53 years. Up to now, none of the candidates ever came among the first Five, but Sobral has broken the spell.
A surprised winner
Sobral could hardly believe his luck
From the beginning, he was one of the favorites, next to the second place with 615 points, the 17-year-old Bulgarians Kristian Kostov. On the third place in the electric dance troupe Sunstroke Project from Moldova came. The also highly favored Italians Francesco Gabbani was sixth.
Off
The German candidate Levina landed with their Song “Perfect Life” in spite of perfect appearance with only six points on the penultimate place, ahead of Spain. And so Germany’s hopes went after the poor performance of Jamie-Lee 2016 (11 points) and Anne-Sophie 2015 (0 points) is once again fulfilled.
42 participant countries competed in this year, 16 of them were eliminated already in the two semi-finals. The ESC Shows saw a total of more than 200 million people, home to the TV, on the Internet live stream or on one of the many Fanparties. Also in the host city of Kiev there was a huge fan fest.
The German candidate Levina gave it their Best shot, but came only on the penultimate place
Musical Diversity
Noteworthy this year is the variety of Songs offered was – the span ranged from the classic Eurovision ballad to the reduced electro-pop Song. The staging of the Show was disappointing, however, many. The three presenters were all male, and made predictable jokes that have to do with the Motto “Celebrate Diversity”, according to the Tenor of the critics. Was loosened for the night from the Ukrainian Trash icon Verka Serduschka. The performance artist had occupied in 2007 in Helsinki with the second place at the ESC. A reunion was also the winner of the previous year Jamala, who has won the ESC in 2017, according to Kiev. For a brief scandal a “streaker” that ran naked on the stage made during your presentation.
Was overshadowed by the music festival of the latest news from the war zone in the East of Ukraine. By artillery fire there were four civilians killed. The Ukrainian President Poroshenko was away from the ESC.