🇵🇹 Nicolas Alves releases their Junior Eurovision 2022 entry “Anos 70”

We have another day where countries are releasing their Junior Eurovision 2022 entries. Today, the next country to relese their entry today is Portugal as they release their entry for Yerevan, titled “Anos 70” by Nicolas Alves.

Bringing in the Rock element for this year’s contest

Bringing in something different this year, Nicolas brings the rock vibe for this year’s contest. In the music video, we see Nicolas takes us in multiple places all around Portugal. Nicolas’ entry which was written by Festival da Canção 2021 participant and Nicolas’ The Voice Kids mentor Carolina Deslandes starts off slow. However, the tempo increases in the first chorus with it being maintianed for the rest of the song.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

The 2022 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Yerevan, following Malena’s win in the 2021 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with “Qami Qami“, with the competition set to take place on the 11th of December. The competing countries in this year’s competition are as follows:

• Albania – Kejtlin Gjata
• Armenia – Nare
• France – Lissandro
• Georgia – Mariam Bigvava
• Ireland – Sophie Lennon
• Italy – Chanel Dilecta
• Kazakhstan – David Charlin
• Malta – Gaia Gambuzza
• The Netherlands – Luna
• North Macedonia – Lara, Irina & Jovan
• Poland – Laura Bączkiewicz
• Portugal – Nicolas Alves
• Serbia – Katarina Savić
• Spain – Carlos Higes
• Ukraine – Zlata Dziunka
• United Kingdom – Freya Skye

To keep up to date with our coverage of the 2022 Junior Eurovision coverage, you can do so by clicking right here.

Portugal’s Junior Eurovision Journey

Portugal first took part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2006, with Pedro Madeira singing his song “Deixa-me sentir”. At the close of voting, Portugal finished 14th in a field of 15 participants with a total of 22 points. Portugal participated once more in 2007, before taking a 10 year break and returning to the Contest in 2017. Since then, Portugal has participated a total of six times.

Portugal’s most recent participation came in 2021, when Simão Oliveira represented the nation in Paris with song “O Rapaz”. Once the combined scores were revealed, Portugal finished in 11th place with 101 points. This is currently Portugal’s best result at the Junior Contest, with 92 points coming from the online vote, whilst the remaining 9 came from professional juries.

What do you make of Portugal’s entry for this year’s contest? Do you think Portugal will get its best result in Yerevan? As always, let us know what you think by commenting below. Also, be sure to follow ‘That Eurovision Site’ on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok as we prepare for the Junior Eurovision 2022!

News Source: EBU

Photo Credit: Hugo Manso