Sabrina started singing at school and family parties and, at the age of 16, she already had won some
karaoke competitions. Her major hobby was playing
futsal at the
Grupo Desportivo e Recreativo do Bairro do Liceu, achieving a championship runner-up place for local club
Vitória de Setúbal. Professionally, she was part of the third and last line-up of Portuguese
girlband Teenagers, from 2003 to 2006, when she planned to start her solo career. In early 2007, with 24 years old, she was selected, through a
casting, to participate on
RTP's
Festival da Canção 2007. Her producer, popular artist
Emanuel, proposed her to perform under the
alias Sabrina. On 10 March, she won the show with almost twice the votes of the runner-up. The song, called "
Dança comigo", represented
Portugal at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Sabrina performed in position number 17 at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 semi-final, backed by a mixed pair of dancers and three female singers. The Eurovision version was more
Latino-influenced than the version with which she won the
Festival da Canção, and the last two
choruses were sung in French, Spanish, English and
Portuguese. The dance routine was more elaborate also. Sabrina ended up 11th, just 4 points short of qualification, right behind
Moldova (to whom incidentally Portugal gave its maximum points). The song's final ranking was 25th out of 42 countries, making "Dança Comigo" the most successful Portuguese entry since
1998, and the second highest Portuguese scorer ever, with 88 points (after the 92 points from
1996). 44 points came from western European countries (8 points from neighbouring Spain), and 36 points from eastern Europe. It was the highest western scoring song in the semi-final. In
ESC 2008, she was a spokesperson for RTP. Along with the Eurovision Song Contest preparations, she was also working on her debut album, produced by
Emanuel. ==Personal life==