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Simão Oliveira will sing for Portugal

20 April 2021 at 12:15 CEST
Simão Oliveira will represent Portugal Filipe Faleiro
We have our first participant for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in France!

We are thrilled to introduce Simão Oliveira, the 14 year old winner of The Voice Kids, from Arouca, a village near Porto.

A talented clarinetist, Simão plays in his hometown’s youth band and is the first member of his family to pursue a career in music.

He began singing at the age of 4 and fell in love with fado; the traditional style of Portuguese story-telling through expressive and profoundly melancholic songs. His idols from that genre are: Tony de Matos, Amália Rodrigues (known as the ‘Queen of Fado’) and António Zambujo (one of the coaches on The Voice: Portugal).

Simão Oliveira Filipe Faleiro

Outside of music, Simão loves the countryside and animals; he keeps chickens, rabbits and a dog, and helps his parents take care of the land they own. He’s considering studying agricultural engineering at college.

A lot of Simão’s time is spent with his grandparents. He loves to cook with them and sing for them… traditional fado songs, of course!

More details about his song (and the Junior Contest) will be revealed in the coming months.