Singer Amar Pelos Dois Victor Salvador Sobral Statements Competition Is History For Him.

For a person who is the highest-scoring winner of the Eurovision song contest thus far, Salvador Sobral suggests little hobby within the opposition. This yr's very last will take area inside the dutch city of Rotterdam on 22 May also.

But the Portuguese singer, who gained in 2017 with Amar pelos dois (love for both of us), says: "he must be honest, he doesn't know something it really is taking place with Eurovision."

Sobral, who's now bringing out a brand new album, says the most effective competition he knows something about are the Portuguese band, the black mamba, and the french consultant, barbara pravi.

After winning in Kyiv in Ukraine, Sobral he had a life-threatening coronary heart situation at the time - memorably stated: "We stay in a world of fast-meal music. That is a victory for the song."

Talking to the, he says: "He nonetheless preserve to what he said in Eurovision approximately his song. It becomes very real. The contraptions have been actual, the voices were actual, nothing changed into artificial. He wagers that's what touched people.

"He supposes his history with Eurovision ended there. Now he has to move his very own way and feature a few other dreams." however, he adds: "if you're true to your artwork and honest, he supposes it's a superb platform for humans to recognize you in the course of Europe and the arena."

He seems lots more healthy than he did at the Eurovision final 4 years in the past, whilst his situation compelled him to miss the primary week of rehearsals.

"He is feeling tremendous, gambling soccer twice a week, which is a miracle. Sometimes they are playing and we're dropping and he is much like, 'damn it, they are dropping', and then he is like, he is able to play. This is a win already.'"

The new album, due out at the give up of may additionally, is referred to as bpm, which stands for beats in line with minute. "because of my records, he notion it becomes interesting to call the album bpm. Your beats in line with minute of your coronary heart are what offers you life and it is what offers tune life, the beats in step with the minute that the tune has."

It's far his fourth studio, however first self-penned, album. "the songs are mine, so they may be my beats in line with a minute of my coronary heart.

"He decided to put in writing my own songs now to try something new and to have a new challenge. And to strive to talk about what he is  feeling, his fears, agony and the fun of existence and love, of the route."

The album changed into a written remaining year all through lockdown, alongside together with his producer, Leo Audrey. At a house in southern Portugal and over skype, after which recorded in January 2021 inside the french basque united states of America.

"we commenced off with a concept: a theatre that is going to shut down the next day. They commenced considering who would be there: the cleanser, a very antique couple watching the play, a singer, the lighting technician and we commenced developing our characters.