Portugal: Hopefuls revealed!

Festival da Canção returns this year and the Portuguese broadcaster, PTR, has today revealed the ten lucky acts that'll participate. Rui Andrade is going to give it another shot - third time lucky? He's already entered the selection in 2011 and 2012, coming 3rd on both occasions. Meanwhile, Catarina Pereira is giving it another shot. She came runner up in 2010 with Canta por Mim!

These are the acts:

• Rui Andrade – “Ao teu encontro” (Marc Paelinck)
• Suzy – ”Quero ser tua (como a lua é do luar)” (Emanuel)
• Zana – ”Nas asas da sorte” (Jan Van Dijk)
• Raquel Guerra –  ”Sonhos roubados” (Nuno Feist)
• Catarina Pereira – ”Mea culpa” (Andrej Babic)
• Madalena Trabuco - ”Coração de filigrana” (Tozé Santos)
• Lara Afonso – ”O teu segredo” (João Matos/Miguel Ferrador)
• Ricardo Alfonso – ”Emoção” (Ricardo Alfonso/Luis Fernando/Rui Fingers)
• Carla Ribeiro - ”Mais para dar” (Hélder Godinho)
• Ivo Lucas – ”Eu vou” (João Só)

Catarina's song is composed by Andrej Babić, who has composed numerous Eurovision songs in the past - including "Vida minha", "Cvet z juga" and "Senhora do mar (Negras águas)".