Salvador Sobral

Two small-town singers chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.

In a distant past, Léon and Elvira Berthelini, itinerant artists, make their living hopping from town to town. In Covarronca, harassed by the Police Commissioner, they are forced to spend the night out in the open. That’s when they meet Stubbs, a young Cambridge student, with whom they find shelter in the home of a painter at odds with his wife. In return for the hospitality, they remind their hosts that the love of art resolves the art of love. Meanwhile, an unusual curse sends them on absurd journeys into the 21st century, where the future of social security and of a rock band are at stake.

Highlights from Hamburg's Elbjazz Festival 2021, a 100% digital edition: American soul diva China Moses, Swedish trombonist and singer Nils Landgren, Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral, gospel-influenced group Michelle David & The True-tones, quartet Masaa, electro-rock jazz band The Notwist and Finnish trumpet player Verneri Pohjola.

Leave the dancers, lasers and other confections at home. In Kiev in 2017, Salvador Sobral won Eurovision with an appearance that was as wonderful as it was small-scale, where the Portuguese pianist and singer sang ‘Amar Pelos Dois’, a delicately nuanced ballad.