Simone de Oliveira
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_cropped.png) Simone de Oliveira at Festival da Canção 2015 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Simone de Macedo e Oliveira |
| Born | 11 February 1938 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
| Years active | 1958–2022 |
Simone de Macedo e Oliveira GCIH GCM (born 11 February 1938), better known as Simone de Oliveira, is a Portuguese singer and actress. She is known internationally for representing Portugal at the 1965 and 1969 editions of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the songs "Sol de inverno" and "Desfolhada portuguesa" respectively.
Early life and career
[edit]Simone de Oliveira was born and raised in Lisbon. Her Portuguese mother had black African roots in São Tomé and Príncipe (then a Portuguese territory), and her father was Belgian. She started singing in high school.
Music career
[edit]She started her career at the end of the 1950s.
With "Sol de inverno" she represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1965.[citation needed]
In 1968, the released the Quando Me Enamoro EP on Decca PEP 1250. It contained the songs, "Viva O Amor" ("Ein Hoch Der Liebe") by Carl J. Schäuble and Horst Jankowsky, "Nos Meus Braços Outra Vez" ("Come Into My Arms Again") by Barbara Ruskin, "Quando Me Enamoro" ("Quando M'Innammoro") by – Pace, Panzeri and Livraghi, and "Para Cada Um Sua Canção" ("A Chacun Sa Chanson") by J. C. Oliver and R. Valade.[1][2]
She became fairly famous in 1969 with the song "Desfolhada portuguesa", with lyrics by José Carlos Ary dos Santos and music by Nuno Nazareth Fernandes. This song was a great success in Portugal, having innovative lyrics during the time of the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar. It represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 in Madrid. Despite her popularity at home, it was not successful at the Eurovision, getting only 4 votes.
Eleven years later she was again selected by RTP to represent her country in the ninth edition of the OTI Festival (The Latin American counterpart of the Eurovision Song Contest). She performed the song "A tua espera" which got the 14th place with 9 points.
Other successful songs:
- "Maria solidão"
- "Deixa lá"
- "À tua espera"
On 23 September 2017, Simone, o Musical, dedicated to Simone de Oliveira and telling her life story, made its debut at the Teatro Tivoli BBVA in Lisbon. Simone de Oliveira also appeared on stage throughout the musical, and close the play with the song Apenas o meu povo (“Just my people”).[3]
In 2022, she was announced to be a coach on the generations version of The Voice Portugal alongside Mickael Carreira, Anselmo Ralph, and Bárbara Bandeira. At 84, she became the oldest The Voice coach globally. She returned for her second season as a coach in 2023, with Carreira, Ralph, and Sara Correia.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
[edit]Theater
[edit]- A tragédia da Rua das Flores
- Passa por mim no Rossio (a great success in Portugal)
- Maldita cocaína.
- A homage to the singer Madalena Iglésias in the musical play What happened to Madalena Iglésias (another success)
- Alma Mahler-Werfel in Joshua Sobols play Alma (2003, directed by Paulus Manker) in Convento dos Inglesinhos in Lisbon.
Acting career
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1964 | A Canção da Saudade | Herself | |
| 1967 | Operação diamante | ||
| 1976 | Cântico final | ||
| 1982 | A estrangeira | Clara |
Television
[edit]She has participated in several Portuguese telenovelas:
| Date | Title | Role | Network | Notes |
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| 1996 | Roseira Brava | Amélia Falcão | RTP | |
| 1996/1997 | Vidas de Sal | Madalena Fragoso | RTP | |
| 2001/2002 | A Senhora das Águas | Maria dos Prazeres | RTP | |
| 2005/2006 | Morangos com Açúcar | Maria Antónia Mergulhão | TVI | |
| 2006/2007 | Tu e Eu | Raquel Lemos Silva Reis | TVI | |
| 2008 | Vila Faia: 25 anos depois | D. Efigénia Marques Vila | RTP | |
| 2022–2023 | The Voice Generations | Coach | RTP |
In 1993, Simone was also a jury member in the first season of SIC contest Chuva de Estrelas (the Portuguese version of Stars in Their Eyes), which has uncovered new talents in Portuguese music.
Personal life
[edit]Simone is a breast cancer survivor and had the sickness twice.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Discogs - Simone* – Quando Me Enamoro
- ^ All for Music - Quando me enamoro - Simone de Oliveira - Écoute gratuite
- ^ Knoops, Roy (25 September 2017). "Portugal: Musical about Simone de Oliveira made its stage debut". Eurovision News, Polls and Information by ESCToday. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "Simone de Oliveira". IMDb.
External links
[edit]- Lyric of entry Sol de inverno, (1965)
- Lyrics of entry Desfolhada portuguesa, (1969)
- Blog with informations and photos of Simone Oliveira
| International | |
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| National | |
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- 1938 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Portuguese women singers
- Portuguese film actresses
- Portuguese television actresses
- Singers from Lisbon
- Portuguese people of São Tomé and Príncipe descent
- Portuguese people of Belgian descent
- 20th-century Portuguese actresses
- Actors from Lisbon
- Musicians from Lisbon
- 21st-century Portuguese actresses
- Portuguese stage actresses
- Portuguese telenovela actresses
- Golden Globes (Portugal) winners