Sabrina (Portuguese artist)

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Sabrina
Promotional photo for RTP's 2007 Festival da Canção.
Background information
Birth name	Teresa Villa-Lobos
Also known as	Sabrina
Born	1983
Origin	Setúbal
Genre(s)	Pop, Schlager (Pimba)
Occupation(s)	Singer
Years active	2003–2006 (Teenagers) 2006–present (solo)
Associated acts	Teenagers

Sabrina (born 1983) is the stage name of Teresa Villa-Lobos, a Portuguese singer, from Setúbal, who will represent her country and national broadcaster RTP at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, in Helsinki, Finland, after winning the Festival da Canção, the national selection. Due to Portugal's non-qualification to the final, in 2006, Sabrina will perform in the semifinal in hope to be the first entry to qualify for the final for the country who has failed to do that since the semifinals were firstly introduced back in 2004.

1 Biography
2 Notes
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Sabrina started singing at school and family parties and, at the age of 16, she already had won some karaoke competitions. Her major hobby was playing futsal at the Grupo Desportivo e Recreativo do Bairro do Liceu, achieving a championship runner-up place for local club Vitória de Setúbal.

Professionally, she was part of the third and last line-up of Portuguese girlband Teenagers, from 2003 to 2006, when she planned to start her solo career. In early 2007, with 24 years old, she was selected, through a casting, to participate on RTP's Festival da Canção 2007. Her producer, popular artist Emanuel, proposed her to perform under the alias Sabrina. On March 10, she won the show with almost twice the votes of the runner-up.^[1]

Sabrina's song, called "Dança Comigo (vem ser feliz)", will represent Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. The song is considered as a typical Portuguese schlager.^{[citation needed]} Fans hope this song may be the country's passport to the Final of the Eurovision Song Contest, an achievement they had not succeeded since this format was introduced in the contest, in 2004.^{[citation needed]}

Sabrina is currently married to Nandinho, a football player of Vitória de Setúbal. Along with the Eurovision Song Contest preparations, she is also working on her debut album, produced by Emanuel.