"Do It for Your Lover" is a song performed by Spanish singer

Manel Navarro Manel Navarro Quesada (born 7 March 1996) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song " Do It for Your Lover" and finished last in the final. Career 2014–16: Early beginnings Na ...

and written by himself together with Antonio Rayo "Rayito". The song was released as a digital download on 13 January 2017 through

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. It represented Spain in the

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. The song finished last overall in the final of the contest.

Eurovision Song Contest

On 12 January 2017, Navarro was confirmed to be one of the six finalists competing in ''Objetivo Eurovisión 2017'', Spain's national final for the

. On 11 February 2017, the night of the final, Navarro finished first with the juries and third with the Spanish public, tying him with

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and her song "Contigo". The jury then broke the tie in Navarro's favour, and he was declared the winner. As Spain is a member of the " Big Five", he automatically advanced to the final, held on 13 May 2017 in

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, Ukraine.

Live performances

Manel Navarro performed the song live for the first time on ''Objetivo Eurovisión'' on 11 February 2017, where he won the competition amid much controversy. On 18 February, Manel Navarro performed the song at the Ukrainian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 as a special guest during the third semi-final. On 25 February, he performed the song on talk show ''¡Qué tiempo tan feliz!'', aired on

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. On 5 March, he also performed as a guest performer during the Romanian Eurovision national final. On 2 April, Manel Navarro performed the song during the ''London Eurovision Party'', which was held at the Café de Paris venue in

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, United Kingdom. On 5 April, he performed at the ''Israel Calling'' event in

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. Navarro also performed the song during the 2017 Eurovision in Concert, the largest gathering of Eurovision artists outside of Eurovision itself, held in the

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, a popular music venue in

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, the Netherlands on 8 April. On 15 April, he performed during the ''Eurovision-Spain Pre-Party'' event which was held at the Sala La Riviera venue in

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. Manel Navarro performed the song live during the final of the

, Ukraine on 13 May 2017. Hans Pannecoucke was the staging director for this performance. In the climax of the song, Navarro went notoriously

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, and his bad result was partly attributed to it. He obtained no points from the professional juries and only five from the public televote (all from Portugal), finishing in twenty-sixth (last) place in the final.Manel Navarro, aplastado por la ola
in El País.

Music video

The official video of the song, directed by Mauri D. Galiano, was filmed in February 2017 on the north coast of

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, Canary Islands. The video premiered on Manel Navarro's

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channel on 9 March 2017.

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

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