Luísa Vilar Braamcamp Sobral, known as Luísa Sobral, was born on September 18, 1987, in Lisbon, Portugal. She is a singer and songwriter who gained prominence at the age of 16 when she finished third in the first season of Ídolos, the Portuguese version of Idols. After taking a hiatus to study music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Sobral returned to the music industry with her debut album, The Cherry on My Cake, released in 2011. Her subsequent albums include Lu-Pu-I-Pi-Sa-Pa (2014) and Luísa (2016). Sobral composed "Amar pelos dois", which her brother Salvador Sobral performed to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. This victory marked Portugal's first win in the contest. In April 2018, Sobral and her brother were awarded the Portuguese Order of Merit by Portuguese then-president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
