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Salvador Sobral
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Birth name
| Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral
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Born
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1989-12-28
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28 December 1989
(age 34)
Lisbon
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Portugal
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Genres
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Occupation(s)
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Instruments
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Years active
| 2009?present
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Labels
| Valentim de Carvalho
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Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral
(born 28 December 1989) is a Portuguese singer and activist. He won the
2017 Eurovision Song Contest
for
Portugal
with the song "
Amar pelos dois
", written by his sister
Luisa Sobral
.
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He gave Portugal its first ever win in the contest since the country's debut in 1964, ending the longest winless run by a country in Eurovision history (53 years).
Under the current voting system, the highest scoring winner is him winning the
contest
in
Kyiv
, Ukraine, with 758 points, with both the maximum points from the jury and the public vote being attributed to him.
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