5 Euro Simone de Oliveira, Cu-Ni

Simone de Oliveira — born in 1938 in Porto — became one of Portugal's defining popular voices of the 1960s, representing the country at Eurovision in 1969 with "Desfolhada Portuguesa." She finished in last place, but the song's folkloric roots made it an enduring piece of Portuguese musical identity. Her career later intersected uncomfortably with the Estado Novo regime's cultural machinery, a complication Portuguese cultural memory has not fully resolved.