Diogo Picarra announced tonight, on your facebook page, the withdrawal of the Festival da Canção, after the controversy of the alleged plagiarism of the «Canção do Fim». Thus, it is another Algarve, the singer Susana Travassos, going to the final, with the song «Mensageira», composed by Aline Frazão.
«I inform you that I have decided to end my participation in Festival da Canção», wrote the Farense singer on Facebook.
O Sul Informação spoke with Susana Travassos, who confirmed that she and Aline Frazão were contacted this afternoon by RTP and agreed to return.
"I accepted it out of respect for the song itself and for the people who liked it," explained Susana Travassos.
The singer born in Vila Real de Santo António, who has done most of her career in Brazil, commented that “when we accept to be part of a competition, it puts art a little aside. A competition does not go with art».
But, he admitted, «the purpose of representing Portugal in the Eurovision has weight. Since my job is to sing, I have to accept this new opportunity and go there!”
In the second semifinal of last Sunday, the song «Mensageira», interpreted by Susana Travassos and composed by Aline Frazão, had been the 3rd in the jury's vote, but ended up being excluded from the final due to poor public voting. Susana Travassos ended up being ranked eighth, having then been left out of the group of seven songs chosen for the final.
The newspaper "Blitz" even considered his departure as "the greatest injustice of the night". «”Mensageira” was written by Aline Frazão for the voice of Susana Travassos. A “farewell song” with head and feet and an immaculate interpretation, with flavor of Brazil and tango. Very beautiful. It was, for us, the biggest injustice of the night: I deserved to be a finalist, but the zero points from the public were not enough to compensate the eight of the jury», wrote the newspaper specializing in music.
But, with the withdrawal of Diogo Piçarra, who, in the second semifinal of last Sunday, had been the favorite of the jury and the public, Susana Travassos was now called up again.
In your statements to the Sul Informação, the singer said she was taken by surprise by this unexpected twist. “Now I will have to reorganize myself. On the 1st, I had a participation in Lisbon, in a concert by an Argentine singer, but I will have to cancel».
Susana Travassos added: «I didn't enter the Festival da Canção with high expectations, it was for the song itself and for Aline. But now I have this new opportunity and, despite having had little time to decide, I had to accept it, so I wouldn't be left thinking “what if…”».
For his part, Diogo Piçarra, in the message he left on his Facebook page, guaranteed: “my position remains in relation to my music, my conscience is clear and my head held high. But I don't intend to feed this cloud anymore. Everything that was created around my participation is no longer Music. I don't want to say how proud it could be to represent my country in a competition like Eurovision, but it doesn't even make sense to even try to win that opportunity anymore».
«My career and life do not depend on this, it only depends on you and in that sense I know that I will always be in good company», explains the singer-songwriter.
«I hope the next winner of Eurovision 2018 will leave the Festival da Canção, and I'll be here, like all the Portuguese, standing up applauding», concludes the musician from Faro.
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