Filipa Azevedo
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Filipa Azevedo in Oslo (2010)
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| Birth name | Filipa Daniela Azevedo de Magalhães |
| Born | 31 July 1991 |
| Origin | Valbom, Gondomar, Portugal |
| Genres | Pop, Latin pop, Rock, Soul, R&B, Hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Cherry Entertainment |
| Associated acts | Susana Azevedo, Catarina Pereira, Raquel Guerra, Shout |
| Website | filipa-azevedo.skyrock.com |
Filipa Daniela Azevedo de Magalhães (Portuguese pronunciation: [fiˈlipɐ ɐzɨˈveðu], born 31 July 1991 in Porto, Portugal), is a Portuguese singer. She is currently resident in the United Kingdom while attending music school in London.
Azevedo represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Há dias assim", finishing 18th out of 25 in the final held in Oslo on 29 May 2010 in Oslo, Norway.
Azevedo was born in Porto and spent the first fifteen years of her life living in the village of Montezelo, close to Melres, a parish of Gondomar, in the northern Portuguese district of Porto. She enrolled at age 12 on a course in Western Concert Flute at the Porto Music Conservatory, discovering there a passion and talent for singing. She soon quit her instrument classes to pursue a musical career, signing up at age 16 for Família Superstar (the Portuguese version of The Superstar Family Show).
The show's judges greeted Azevedo's performance with praise: Anjos singer Sérgio Rosado told her “Honestly, I haven’t heard a voice like yours for a long long time ago… Congratulations!...I really had to close my eyes at one point because I felt that I was actually listening to Beyoncé… Congratulations!” His partner in Anjos, singer Nélson Rosado, said “Well, when I started to hear you singing, I almost couldn’t believe in what I was hearing… It would be a crime not to have you in this show.” Journalist Clara de Sousa told Azevedo “You are like a dam that really needs to open up its floodgates… that voice… you can really deliver a knockout performance…” Azevedo's performance was widely viewed on YouTube, and she went on to receive praise for performances in subsequent shows. Over successive episodes she performed Beyoncé's "Listen", "A Moment Like This" by Kelly Clarkson and as arranged by Leona Lewis, Evanescence's "My Immortal", Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger", Tina Turner's "GoldenEye", Madonna's "Like a Prayer", Whitney Houston's "When You Believe", Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (also as arranged by Leona Lewis), and Mariah Carey's "Endless Love".
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