Salvador Sobral

Salvador Sobral (2017)

Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral [ saɫvɐdoɾ suˈβɾaɫ ] (born December 28, 1989 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese singer . In 2017 he won the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev for his country with the song Amar pelos dois .

life and career

Sobral comes from a Portuguese noble family . His sister Luísa Sobral (* 1987) is also a singer and composer. The parents of the two are Salvador Luis Cabral Braamcamp Sobral (* 1955) and Luisa Posser de Andrade Vilar (* 1960). His great-grandfather Luis José Aimable Braamcamp Sobral (1874-1934) was 4th Conde de Sobral . His aunt Maria Eugénia Braamcamp de Melo Breyner (1837–1879) had married Francisco de Borja de Sousa Holstein , son of Pedro de Sousa Holstein , offspring of a German-Portuguese branch of the House of Oldenburg from the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck line . One of his ancestors is Karl I von Hohenzollern .

Sobral originally studied psychology, but dropped out in favor of jazz studies in Barcelona . He later went to the United States . After returning to Europe, he studied jazz at the Taller de Musics in Barcelona. First own music projects were influenced by the style of Chet Baker as well as Brazilian Bossa Nova and other Latin American music styles .

In 2009 he participated in the Portuguese version of Idols and reached number seven.

In 2016 Sobral recorded his debut album, which was released under the title Excuse me . He works closely with the Venezuelan composer Leonardo Aldrey to produce the songs. Sobral's sister Luísa contributed her own composition ( I Might Just Stay Away ).

In 2017 he took part in the Festival da Canção , the Portuguese preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest . In the first semifinals he reached second place with the ballad Amar pelos dois , which his sister had composed and written the lyrics and thus qualified for the final, which he won. With Amar pelos dois he also won the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev .

In 2019 Sobral toured successfully in Germany with his new program Paris Lisboa, which he presented with a jazz band .

Temporary career break

On September 8, 2017, Sobral had to interrupt his career first; he said goodbye with a concert, which was entitled "Até já!" ( German  see you soon! ). On September 25th, he was waiting for a vital donor heart in an intensive care unit near Lisbon . Because of his cardiac rhythm disorders , he had already not been able to take part in the rehearsals at the ESC, so that he had to be represented by his sister. Sobral himself said in September 2017: “It is no longer a secret to anyone that I have poor health. I have a problem. Unfortunately, the time has come to surrender my body to science and thereby give up my concert life and music as a whole. Civilization must be left for a while to go to where the problem will surely be solved. Unfortunately I don't know how long this will take. ”In mid-December 2017, Sobral received a donor heart in a clinic in Lisbon. Less than two weeks later, on December 22nd, he was hospitalized again in Carnaxide because he had suffered kidney failure . In mid-January 2018 he said that he was getting better and better, that he was motivated for the future, that he was even thinking of a new album, but that the healing process needed time. In his first appearance since his operation, at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 , in which he sang two songs, including his winning title in a duet with the Brazilian idol Caetano Veloso , he was enthusiastically received by the audience.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		AT	CH	PT
2016	Excuse me	AT65 (1 week) AT	CH31 (1 week) CH	PT1 (51 weeks) PT	First published: August 2, 2016
2017	Excuse Me ao vivo	-	-	PT2 (19 weeks) PT	First published: December 15, 2017
2019	Paris, Lisboa	-	-	PT1 (30 weeks) PT	First published: March 29, 2019

Songs

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	PT
2016	Excuse Me Excuse Me	-	-	-	-	PT22 (3 weeks) PT
	Nem Eu Excuse Me	-	-	-	-	PT25 (2 weeks) PT
2017	Amar pelos dois Excuse Me	DE43 (1 week) DE	AT22 (1 week) AT	CH6 (1 week) CH	UK97 (1 week) UK	PT1 gold (14 weeks)PT	First published: March 10, 2017
2018	Mano a Mano Paris, Lisboa	-	-	-	-	PT84 (1 week) PT
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2017	Nada Que Esperar Excuse Me	-	-	-	-	PT56 (1 week) PT
	Ready for Love Again Excuse Me	-	-	-	-	PT61 (1 week) PT
	After you've gone excuse me	-	-	-	-	PT64 (1 week) PT
	Change Excuse Me	-	-	-	-	PT70 (1 week) PT
	Autumn in New York Excuse Me	-	-	-	-	PT79 (1 week) PT
	Ay Amor Excuse Me	-	-	-	-	PT88 (1 week) PT
	Something Real Excuse Me	-	-	-	-	PT91 (1 week) PT

Web links

Commons : Salvador Sobral  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Salvador Sobral at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} biography at blog.prinz.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} biography at last.fm
3. ^ Family tree Teles 4 at genealogy.euweb.cz
4. ↑ Family tree Capet 75 at genealogy.euweb.cz
5. ↑ see Teles 4 , Breunner 2 , Breunner 1 , Harrach 2 and Hohenzollern 8 at genealogy.euweb.cz
6. ↑ Preliminary decision Portugal 2017 at ogae.de
7. ^ Eurovision Song Contest. Retrieved May 13, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Jazz for the heart: Former ESC winner Salvador Sobral is tearing the audience off their chairs in Stuttgart
9. ↑ ESC winner is waiting for donor heart in the Leipziger Volkszeitung
10. ↑ https://www.publico.pt/2017/09/05/culturaipsilon/noticia/salvador-sobral-anuncia-pausa-na-carreira-por-motivos-de-saude-1784516
11. ↑ http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/haben/eurovision-song-contest/gewinner-sobral-erhaelt-neues-herz-54141798.bild.html
12. ↑ https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/12/21/actualidad/1513873167_011489.html
13. ↑ http://www.euronews.com/2018/01/18/salvador-sobral-vows-to-return-to-music-after-successful-heart-operation
14. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK Albums PT / Singles PT
15. ↑ Portugal: "Amar pelos dois" alcança disco de ouro , ESC Portugal, June 7, 2017