Not your typical Eurovision song and dance act

The Portugese singer Vânia Fernandes is anything but your typical female Eurovision entrant - short, black-haired and statuesque rather than tall, blond and skinny; she is singing a powerful ballad rather than an up-tempo pop song; and the story has a sad, not happy, ending. And she pulls it off. Her songwriter Carlos talked about the folk story which is behind her song listen. Her entire group do not wear shoes during the performance
which she explained as follows listen.