Tags: Eurovision Song Contest Entry.
Playback was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 performed in Portuguese by Carlos Paião.The song is a moderately up-tempo number. Paião satirizes the singing in playback which he explains is in fact miming to pre-recorded music (the anglicism playback is used in Portugal to mean lip synch broadened from playback singer). By doing this he points out one does not have to risk singing out of tune or missing notes.