Cape Verde

Cape Verde
Information
Broadcaster	RTC
National Selection	Festival do Praia (#04, #06-#07)
Appearances
Appearances	7 (6 finals)
First appearance	01
Best result	4th: 03
Worst result	19th: 04

Cape Verde has participated in the Own Africavision Song Contest 7 times since its debut in the first edition. The country's best result is 4th place, achieving this at the Own Africavision Song Contest 3.

In their debut they got robbed with the song "Loco" by the talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique Jennifer Dias ft. Elji Beatzkilla, placing 13th in the Grand Final. In the second edition we said YES to male singers and sent Djodje with "Atrevido", getting robbed again placing 17th in the Final.

The robberies streak finished in the third edition thanks to Lisandro Cuxi, who's song "Dançar" managed to achieve the 4th place in the contest, giving it's first AQ spot to Cape Verde and so far the best placement of the archipielago. The Grand Final place was obtained by Yasmine, who won the first edition of Festival do Praia with "Quem é?", who finished in a respectable 19th position.

Jennifer Dias finally got her revenge in the fifth edition, achieving the 5th place alongside Sureno Beatzz & Supa Squad with the song "Boom". Mongolian-Capeverdean singer Naam managed to win the second edition of Festival Do Praia by a huge margin with "Gun Tsenher", automatically classified to the final she was the first Asian to represent the African country. Naam finished 7th in the final, missing the top6 and an AQ streak by just one place.

Cape Verde has still a 100% qualification streak and is one of the five countries with its presence in all finals alongside Libya, Zimbabwe, Gambia and Mauritius.

Participation

Table key

     Winner

     Second place

     Third place

     Last place

     Automatically qualified to the final

     Did not qualify to the final

     Did not qualify to the semi-finals

     Withdrawn or disqualified

     Did not compete

Ed	Artist	Song	Language	Final	Points	Semi	Points
#01	Jennifer Dias feat. Elji Beatzkilla	"Loco"	Creole, English, French	13	91	4	95
#02	Djodje	"Atrevido"	Portuguese	17	79	8	75
#03	Lisandro Cuxi	"Dançar"	Portuguese	4	151	5	99
#04	Yasmine	"Quem é?"	Portuguese	19	63	"Big 6" Member
#05	Jennifer Dias, Sureno Beatzz & Supa Squad	"Boom"	Portuguese, English, French	5	148	4	111
#06	Naam	"Gun tsenher"	Mongolian	7	124	"Big 6" Member
#07	Mónica Sintra	"Mulher"	Portuguese