Salvador Sobral
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| Birth name | Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral |
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28 December 1989 Lisbon, Portugal |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | Valentim de Carvalho |
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Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral (Portuguese pronunciation: [saɫvɐˈðoɾ viˈlaɾ bɾɐ̃ˈkɐ̃p suˈβɾaɫ], born 28 December 1989) is a Portuguese singer, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine for Portugal with the song "Amar pelos dois", written and composed by his sister Luísa Sobral. In doing so, he gave his country its first ever win in the contest since its debut in 1964, ending the longest winless run by a country in Eurovision history (53 years). He and his entry hold the Eurovision record for the highest-scoring winner, having earned a total of 758 points under the current voting system, after winning both the jury vote and televote.
Sobral was born in Lisbon and has lived there most of his life. He was born into a formerly noble family, the son of Salvador Luís Cabral Braamcamp Sobral and Luísa Maria Cabral Posser Vilar. His paternal grandparents are Salvador José de Almeida Braamcamp Sobral and Maria Elisa Perestrelo de Matos de Figueiredo Cabral; and his maternal grandparents are João Luís Posser de Andrade Vilar and Luísa Maria de Melo Breyner Freire Cabral. The politician Hermano José Braamcamp de Almeida Castelo Branco was his great-great-great-great-grandfather.
At the age of ten, he participated in the TV programme Bravo Bravíssimo, and at 20 he was one of the ten finalists of Ídolos, the Portuguese version of the Idols franchise. As a finalist, he sang music by Stevie Wonder, Leonard Cohen and Rui Veloso.
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