A few weeks ago, Salvador Sobral, the 27-year-old Portuguese crooner who won Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest, was an unknown artist waiting for a heart transplant.
But his intimate rendering of the melancholic Amar Pelos Dois (For the Both of Us) written by his older sister Luisa – a success in her own right – scored a huge victory in the kitschy contest in Kiev.
At first glance, his decision to forgo the elaborate choreography and heavy dance tempos favoured by most contestants had… …read more
Source: South China Morning Post
