Portugal\u2019s selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 continued on Sunday night with the tthird episode of The Voice Kids on RTP.<\/p>\n
The Voice Kids continues in Portugal, as the nations\u2019 search for Junior Eurovision commenced. Nena, Miguel Cristovinho, Diogo Pi\u00e7arra and Cuca Roseta returned as the coaches for the latest series, Catarina Furtado returns as host, while Maria Petronilho is the Digital Presenter.<\/p>\n
The results of the third episode of the Blind Auditions are as follows:<\/p>\n
Ana Rita Torres \u2013 Nena and Cristo turned \u2013 Joined Cristo\u2019s team
\nAnt\u00f3nio & Vasco Martins \u2013 Diogo, Nena and Cristo turned, Diogo superblocked Cristo \u2013 Joined Nena\u2019s team
\nLeonor Lopes \u2013 Diogo and Cristo turned \u2013 Joined Cristo\u2019s team
\nLara Baptista \u2013 No coaches turned
\nJorge Godinho \u2013 Diogo turned \u2013 Joined Diogo\u2019s team
\nLeonor Guimar\u00e3es \u2013 No coaches turned
\nMariana Jorge \u2013 Diogo and Cristo turned \u2013 Joined Diogo\u2019s team
\nTom\u00e1s Gon\u00e7alves \u2013 No coaches turned
\nLuz Confino \u2013 Nena and Cristo turned \u2013 Joined Cristo\u2019s team
\nJos\u00e9 Guerreiro \u2013 No coaches turned
\nMaria Luiza Pinheiro \u2013 Nena turned \u2013 Joined Nena\u2019s team
\nMatilde Cust\u00f3dio \u2013 No coaches turned (Diogo, Nena and Cristo have full teams)
\nMatilde Fonseca \u2013 No coaches turned (Diogo, Nena and Cristo have full teams)
\nAmar\u00edlys C\u00e2mara \u2013 Cuca turned \u2013 Joined Cuca\u2019s team<\/p>\n
The teams so far are:<\/p>\n
Diogo Pi\u00e7arra<\/p>\n
Maria Leonor Antunes
\nSalvador Rio
\nSalom\u00e9 Pinho
\nDuarte Alves
\nJorge Godinho
\nMariana Jorge<\/p>\n
Nena<\/p>\n
Mia Ribeiro
\nEva Moreira
\nGiovanna Silva
\nVit\u00f3ria Fernandes
\nAnt\u00f3nio & Vasco Martins
\nMaria Luiza Pinheiro<\/p>\n
Miguel Cristovinho<\/p>\n
Madalena Chaves
\nSamuel Aguiar
\nMartim Cabral
\nAna Rita Torres
\nLeonor Lopes
\nLuz Confino<\/p>\n
Cuca Roseta<\/p>\n
Carolina Rodrigues
\nDaniela Font\u00e3o
\nLara Ferreira
\nMaria Eduarda
\nLara Inv\u00eancio
\nAmar\u00edlys C\u00e2mara<\/p>\n
The Voice Kids has been used to select the Portuguese representative since 2021. RTP used to select the highest placing eligible singer to compete in Junior Eurovision. Since 2025, the winner goes to the contest. The show is being broadcast on RTP 1 and RTP Mundo from 22:00 CET every Sunday.<\/p>\n
In\u00eas Gon\u00e7alves represented Portugal at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with \u201cPara onde vai o amor?\u201d. She finished 13th with 73 points.<\/p>\n
Portugal in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n
Portugal debuted at the 2006 edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Bucharest. The country placed second-last in 2006 and 2007 and withdrew in 2008. They did not return until 2017, when they were represented by Mariana Ven\u00e2ncio, who placed 14th with her song \u201cYouTuber\u201d. In 2024, Victoria Nicole finished 2nd for Portugal, its best-ever result in the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portugal\u2019s selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 continued on Sunday night with the tthird episode of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,33958,154657,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-headline","tag-the-voice-kids","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}