The band from Beja won the Song Festival this Saturday, with the theme ‘Rosa’, and will represent Portugal at Eurovision, in Vienna, Austria, next May. Remember the presentation and see the votes from the public and the jury.
Os Sing Bandits are the winners of the 2026 Song Festival.
The Beja band This was followed by NAPA, winners of 2025, with the song ‘Rosa’, in a ceremony presented by Filomena Cautela and Vasco Palmeirim.
This was the vote by each regional jury (first place awarded):
North – ‘Rosa’, Bandidos do Cante
Center – ‘Canção do Querer’, João Ribeiro
Lisbon – ‘Rosa’, Bandidos do Cante
Alentejo – ‘Rosa’, Bandidos do Cante
Algarve – ‘Willing to do everything’, Sandrino
Madeira – ‘Fumo’, Never Kill the Mandarin
Azores – ‘Canção do Querer’, João Ribeiro
Jury winner – ‘Canção do Querer’, João Ribeiro
This was the public vote:
‘Sprint’, Evaya – 1 ponto
‘Canção do Querer’, João Ribeiro – 2 points
‘Doce Ilusão’, Gonçalo Gomes – 3 points
‘No End’, Silvana Peres – 4 points
‘Rain’, Marquise – 5 points
‘Willing to do anything’, Sandrino – 6 points
‘Give Me Your Hand’, André Amaro – 7 points
‘Fumo’, Never Kill the Mandarin – 8 points
‘Jurei’, Dinis Mota – 10 points
‘Rosa’, Bandidos do Cante – 12 points
See here the performance of the winning band of the 2026 Song Festival.
In the final of the Song Festival, the Throes + The Shine, with Selma Uamusse, Catarina Salinas and Samuel Úria as guestsand the NAPAwinners of the 2025 edition of the Festival da Canção, who played a new version of the song that won them the victory, ‘Displaced’.
