"Voltarei" was the Portuguese

Portugal

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 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988

Eurovision Song Contest 1988

The Eurovision Song Contest 1988 was the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 30 April 1988 in Dublin. The presenters were Pat Kenny and Michelle Rocca...

, performed in Portuguese

Portuguese language

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 by Dora

Dora (singer)

Dora is a Portuguese singer.She represented Portugal twice at the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1986 she was 14th with Não sejas mau para mim and two years later she was 18th with Voltarei....

.

The song is a ballad, with Dora telling her lover that she will return to him. She confesses that her claims of having another lover to go to were false, and thus she expects him not to have waited for her, however she hopes that he will have done so anyway. She tells him, moreover, that she will wait for him to see that her feelings are true.

The song was performed twentieth on the night, following France

France

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's Gérard Lenorman

Gérard Lenorman

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 with "Chanteur de charme

Chanteur De Charme

"Chanteur de charme" was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, performed in French by Gérard Lenorman....

" and preceding Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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's Srebrna Krila

Srebrna krila

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 with "Mangup

Mangup (song)

"Mangup" was the Yugoslav entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, composed by Rajko Dujmić and Stevo Cvikić and sung by Srebrna Krila in Serbo-Croatian....

". At the close of voting, it had received 5 points, placing 18th in a field of 21.

It was succeeded as Portuguese representative

Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest

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 at the 1989 Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1989

The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 was the 34th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 6 May 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Switzerland gained the hosting rights after Celine Dion's victory in Dublin the previous year. The presenters were Lolita Morena and Jacques Deschenaux. Riva was the winner of...

 by Da Vinci

Da Vinci (band)

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 with "Conquistador

Conquistador (Da Vinci song)

"Conquistador" was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed in Portuguese by Da Vinci.The song reminisces about the former Portuguese colonial possessions worldwide...

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