Oração
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| Oração | ||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1964 entry | ||
| Country | Portugal | |
| Artist(s) | António Calvário Da Paz | |
| As | António Calvário | |
| Language | Portuguese | |
| Composer(s) | João Nobre | |
| Lyricist(s) | Francisco Nicholson, Rogério Bracinha | |
| Place | 13th | |
| Points | 0 | |
| Lyrics | from Diggiloo Thrush | |
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Oração (English translation: "Prayer") was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, performed in Portuguese by António Calvário. This was Portugal's debut Contest appearance, and consequently the first time the Portuguese language had been used.
The song is in the chanson style, popular in the early years of the Contest, and takes the form of a prayer. Calvário addresses God and confesses to hurting his lover. He goes on to beg for forgiveness, even suggesting that love itself may be a punishment.
The song was performed eleventh on the night (following Monaco's Romuald with Où Sont-Elles Passées and preceding Italy's Gigliola Cinquetti with Non ho l'età). At the close of voting, it had received the dreaded nul points, placing 13th (equal last with the German, Swiss and Yugoslavian entries) in a field of 16.
It was succeeded as Portuguese representative at the 1965 Contest by Simone de Oliveira with Sol De Inverno.
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