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{{Short description|Portuguese singer and actress (born 1938)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{BLP sources|date=November 2013}}
{{Portuguese name|de Macedo|Oliveira}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Simone de Oliveira
| image            = Simone de Oliveira - Festival da Canção 2015 (ESC Portugal) cropped.png
| caption          = Simone de Oliveira at [[Festival da Canção]] 2015
| background       = solo_singer
| birth_name       = Simone de Macedo e Oliveira
| alias            = 
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1938|02|11}}
| birth_place      = [[Lisbon]], Portugal
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| genre            = 
| occupation       = Singer, actress
| years_active     = 1958–2022
| label            = 
| associated_acts  = 
| website          = 
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of Infante D. Henrique|GCIH]] • [[Order of Merit (Portugal)|GMC]]
}}

'''Simone de Macedo e Oliveira''' {{Post-nominals|list=[[Order of Prince Henry|GCIH]] [[Order of Merit (Portugal)|GCM]]}} (born 11 February 1938), better known as '''Simone de Oliveira''', is a [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[singer]] and [[actress]]. She represented Portugal at the {{escyr|1965}} and {{escyr|1969||1969 editions}} of the [[Eurovision Song Contest]], with the songs "{{lang|pt|Sol de inverno|i=no}}" and "{{lang|pt|[[Desfolhada portuguesa]]|i=no}}" respectively.

== Early life and career==
Simone de Oliveira was born and raised in [[Lisbon]]. Her Portuguese mother had black African roots in [[São Tomé and Príncipe]] (then a Portuguese territory), and her father was [[Belgians|Belgian]]. She started singing in high school. 

==Music career==
[[File:Eurovision Song Contest 1965 - Simone de Oliveira.jpg|thumb|Simone de Oliveira at Eurovision 1965]]
She started her career at the end of the 1950s.

On 6 February 1965, she won the {{lang|pt|{{Esccnty|Portugal|y=1965|t=Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa 1965}}|i=no}} with the song "{{lang|pt|Sol de inverno|i=no}}". She subsequently {{Esccnty|Portugal|t=represented Portugal}} at the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1965]] with that song, placing 13th receiving only one point.{{Citation needed|reason=Ref required|date=September 2024}}

In 1968, the released the ''Quando Me Enamoro'' EP on [[Decca Records|Decca]] PEP 1250. It contained the songs, "Viva O Amor" ("Ein Hoch Der Liebe") by Carl J. Schäuble and [[Horst Jankowski|Horst Jankowsky]], "Nos Meus Braços Outra Vez" ("Come Into My Arms Again") by [[Barbara Ruskin]], "Quando Me Enamoro" ("Quando M'Innammoro") by – Pace, Panzeri and Livraghi, and "Para Cada Um Sua Canção" ("A Chacun Sa Chanson") by J. C. Oliver and R. Valade.<ref>Discogs - [https://www.discogs.com/release/5497125-Simone-Quando-Me-Enamoro Simone* – Quando Me Enamoro]</ref><ref>All for Music - [https://www.allformusic.fr/albums/255f3b69-6b10-4d29-b247-786498efbd71 Quando me enamoro - Simone de Oliveira - Écoute gratuite]</ref>

On 24 February 1969, she won the {{lang|pt|{{Esccnty|Portugal|y=1969|t=Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa 1969}}|i=no}} with the song "{{lang|pt|[[Desfolhada portuguesa]]|i=no}}". The song, composed by {{ill|Nuno Nazareth Fernandes|pt}} with lyrics by [[José Carlos Ary dos Santos]], was a great success in Portugal, having controversial lyrics during the time of the [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|dictatorship]] of [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]. She represented Portugal with the song at the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1969]] in Madrid. Despite her popularity at home, it was not successful at the Eurovision, getting only 4 votes and placing 15th.

In 1980, she was again selected by {{lang|pt|[[Radiotelevisão Portuguesa]]|i=no}} (RTP) to [[Portugal in the OTI Festival|represent Portugal]] in the [[OTI Festival 1980|ninth edition]] of the [[OTI Festival]]. She performed the song "{{lang|pt|A tua espera|i=no}}" which got the 14th place with 9 points.

Other successful songs:
* "Maria solidão"
* "Deixa lá"
* "À tua espera"

On 23 September 2017, ''Simone, o Musical'', dedicated to Simone de Oliveira and telling her life story,  made its debut at the Teatro Tivoli BBVA in Lisbon. Simone de Oliveira also appeared on stage throughout the musical, and closed the play with the song ''Apenas o meu povo'' (“Just my people”).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Knoops |first=Roy |date=2017-09-25 |title=Portugal: Musical about Simone de Oliveira made its stage debut |url=https://esctoday.com/150111/portugal-musical-simone-de-oliveira-made-stage-debut/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Eurovision News, Polls and Information by ESCToday |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2022, she was announced to be a coach on the [[The Voice Portugal#The Voice Gerações|generations version]] of ''[[The Voice Portugal]]'' alongside [[Mickael Carreira]], [[Anselmo Ralph]], and [[Bárbara Bandeira]]. At 84, she became the oldest ''The Voice'' coach globally. She returned for her second season as a coach in 2023, with Carreira, Ralph, and [[Sara Correia]].{{Citation needed|reason=Ref required|date=September 2024}}

==Selected filmography==
===Theater===
* ''A tragédia da Rua das Flores''
* ''Passa por mim no Rossio'' (a great success in Portugal)
* ''Maldita cocaína''.
* A homage to the singer [[Madalena Iglésias]] in the musical play ''What happened to Madalena Iglésias'' (another success)
* [[Alma Mahler-Werfel]] in [[Joshua Sobol]]s play ''[[Alma (play)|Alma]]'' (2003, directed by [[Paulus Manker]]) in Convento dos Inglesinhos in Lisbon.

===Acting career===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1964
| ''[[A Canção da Saudade]]''
| Herself
|
|-
| 1967
| ''Operação diamante''
|
|
|-
| 1976
| ''Cântico final''
|
|
|-
| 1982
| ''{{ill|A estrangeira|pt}}''
| Clara
|
|}

===Television===
She has participated in several Portuguese [[telenovela]]s: 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! class="unsortable" | Date
! Title
! Role
! Network
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1996
| ''{{ill|Roseira Brava|pt}}''
| Amélia Falcão
| [[Rádio e Televisão de Portugal|RTP]]
|
|-
| 1996/1997
| ''{{ill|Vidas de Sal|pt}}''
| Madalena Fragoso
| RTP
|
|-
| 2001/2002
| ''{{ill|A Senhora das Águas|pt}}''
| Maria dos Prazeres
| RTP
|
|-
| 2005/2006
| ''[[Morangos com Açúcar]]''
| Maria Antónia Mergulhão
| [[Televisão Independente|TVI]]
|
|-
| 2006/2007
| ''{{ill|Tu e Eu|pt}}''
| Raquel Lemos Silva Reis
| TVI
|
|-
| 2008
| ''{{illm|Vila Faia (2008)|lt=Vila Faia: 25 anos depois|pt|Vila Faia (2008)}}''
| D. Efigénia Marques Vila
| RTP
|
|-
| 2022–2023
| ''[[The Voice Portugal#The Voice Gerações|The Voice Generations]]''
| Coach
| RTP
| 
|}

In 1993, Simone was also a jury member in the first season of [[Sociedade Independente de Comunicação|SIC]] contest ''{{ill|Chuva de Estrelas|pt}}'' (the Portuguese version of ''[[Stars in Their Eyes]]''), which has uncovered new talents in Portuguese music.

==Personal life==
Simone is a breast cancer survivor and had the sickness twice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0210725/bio|title = Simone de Oliveira|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050904045457/http://www.diggiloo.frac.dk/?1965pt Lyric of entry ''Sol de inverno'', (1965) ]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050830205958/http://www.diggiloo.frac.dk/?1969pt Lyrics of entry  ''Desfolhada portuguesa'', (1969)]
* [http://conversamuitaconversa.blogspot.com Blog with informations and photos of Simone Oliveira]

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| before = [[António Calvário]]<br />''"[[Oração]]"''
| title = [[Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest]]
| years = [[Eurovision Song Contest 1965|1965]]
| after = [[Madalena Iglésias]]<br />with ''"[[Ele e ela]]"''|
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| before = [[Carlos Mendes (singer)|Carlos Mendes]]<br />''"[[Verão]]"''
| title = [[Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest]]
| years = [[Eurovision Song Contest 1969|1969]]
| after = [[Tonicha]]<br />with ''"[[Menina do alto da serra]]"''|
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| title = [[Portugal in the OTI Festival]]
| years = [[OTI Festival 1980|1980]]
| before = [[José Cid]]<br /> with "Na cabana junto à praia"
| after = [[José Cid]]<br /> with "Uma lagrima"
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[[Category:Singers from Lisbon]]
[[Category:Portuguese people of São Tomé and Príncipe descent]]
[[Category:Portuguese people of Belgian descent]]
[[Category:20th-century Portuguese actresses]]
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[[Category:Musicians from Lisbon]]
[[Category:21st-century Portuguese actresses]]
[[Category:Portuguese stage actresses]]
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[[Category:Golden Globes (Portugal) winners]]
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