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Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2024


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12 hours ago, Federer91 said:

As usual the Open contest is harder to decide what to choose.

Interesting contrast, for me the Annual is usually way harder, because I'm always out of touch with what the recent songs are or even who the Dutch artists are :d (since most of them have English stage names anyway)

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22 hours ago, heywoodu said:

:NED Danny Vera - Roller Coaster :NED 

 


 

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This one will forever be - to me - the corona song, due to that amazing kpn advertisement "ode aan nederland". Kippenvel everytime i see it :)

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For this TISC, I bring you back to the late 70s/early 80s, a very important period in Portuguese history: this was the early years of democracy, which returned to Portugal after almost 50 years of cruel and hard fascist dictatorship, which included a 13 year war in Africa that no one wanted to fight except our dictator.

 

The dictatorship ended in 1974, April 25th with our bloodless democratic revolution, and the following years had some political instability (communists trying to take over, democratic forces trying to put things back on track), but in general the feeling in the streets was that of a nation forced into silence for half a century and that now had the freedom to speak, to sing, to kiss and to dance in the streets. 

 

So as you can imagine, a lot of artists and songs came up in this years, all in a particular style that we would associate to this era. Among them, was a man called Antonio Variações, a barbershop man who liked to sing during his work, and that got the attention of one of his clients: a famous tv show presenter. 

 

He became incredible famous for his happiness and joyful while singing, and later on for sadly becoming one of the first big public figures to die of AIDS, at the very early age of 39.

 

He produced and sang several hits that are now great classics of Portuguese music history.

For TISC Open 2024, Portugal presents the most famous of his songs, released to the radios moments before he got admitted to the hospital where he would die a few days later.

I hope some of you enjoy it :)

 

 

 

:POR  PORTUGAL  :POR

 

António Variações - Canção do Engate

 

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