Menina do alto da serra

Portugal "Menina do alto da serra"
Eurovision Song Contest 1971 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Tonicha
Language
Composer(s)
Nuno Nazareth Fernandes
Lyricist(s)
Conductor
Jorge Costa Pinto
Finals performance
Final result
9th
Final points
83
Appearance chronology
◄ "Desfolhada portuguesa" (1969)   
"A festa da vida" (1972) ►

Menina do alto da serra ("High ridge girl"), also known in Portugal just as Menina and for this reason sometimes entitled Menina (do alto da serra), was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed in Portuguese by Tonicha.

The song is a ballad, with Tonicha describing a simple country girl. She presents the girl as an ideal to which everyone should aspire in their lives.

The song was performed fifteenth on the night, following the Netherlands' Saskia & Serge with "Tijd" and preceding Yugoslavia's Kruno Slabinac with "Tvoj dječak je tužan". At the close of voting, it had received 83 points, placing 9th (at the time the best Portuguese result) in a field of 18.

It was succeeded as Portuguese representative at the 1972 contest by Carlos Mendes with "A festa da vida".


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