Pedro Khima
Pedro Khima is one of the most recognized names in contemporary Portuguese music. With a career that spans more than two decades, he has shown his versatility and talent as a singer, songwriter and music producer. In this article, we…
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Alberto Indio
Alberto Índio: a singer who faces pain and hope. Alberto Índio is a Portuguese singer and composer who has a musical career spanning over 20 years. He is known for songs such as “A Noite”, “O Teu Lugar” and “Nada…
Dj Ride
It is necessary to invent a new scale, something that can adequately serve to measure the resounding advances that DJ Ride’s career has made since he appeared to show that two platters and a mixing board are tools for building…
D’Arrazar
D’Arrasar were one of the most popular bands in Portuguese pop in the late 90s and early 2000s. With a young, fun and danceable style, the five boys won the hearts of thousands of fans, especially the female audience. In…
Eight new songs and bands on the rise – Part 3
New songs are released every week on radio stations and top music programs. As it couldn’t be otherwise, today we’re going to reveal some new bands and songs as well as their video clips. Oviously not all of this songs…
Corpo Diplomático
Corpo Diplomático was the first Portuguese new wave band, formed in Lisbon in 1979. They had an ephemeral career with only two record records. Influenced by the new wave movement that emerged at the end of the seventies in England…
Cidália Moreira
Cidália Moreira is a Portuguese singer, actress and fado singer born in Olhão, Portugal, in 1944. She is known as the “gypsy fado singer”. From an early age, she demonstrated her passion for singing and dancing, and this was reflected…
Sheiks
The Sheiks are a Portuguese musical group formed in 1963 by Carlos Mendes, Fernando Chaby, Jorge Barreto and Paulo de Carvalho. Nicknamed the Portuguese Beatles, they played the typical rock’n’roll of the time and of which they were the main…
Toranja – Tiago Bettencourt
Toranja was a Portuguese musical group formed by Tiago Bettencourt (voice, guitars and piano), Ricardo Frutuoso (guitars), “Dodi” (bass) and “Rato” (drums). They began as a project by Tiago Bettencourt created after being selected in a competition for the best…
Os Ekos
Formed in 1963, in Lisbon, Os Ekos are one of the most important references of what became known as “yé yé”.At the origin of Os Ekos was the vocalist Edmundo Falé, coming from the Baby Twisters, another group from Lisbon,…
Sergio Nunes Fadist
Since 1993 he has participated in several festivals where he got some 1st and 2nd places. Through fado he obtained 1st and 3rd places in the Grande Noite de Fado in Porto and Lisbon.
Cocktail
Cocktail was a Portuguese pop band in the 1970s. It was one of the first national girl bands. Names such as Rita Ribeiro, Maria Viana, Ágata and Lena Coelho passed through the group. The group recorded songs by Tozé Brito,…
Sandro G
Source: last.fm Sandro G. was born in Sao Miguel Acores, the islands of portugal. His family immegrated to the united states when Sandro was 9 years old, as a child Sandro used hip hop music to learn the english language.…
Tentações
As Tentações was a Portuguese girl band formed in Lisbon, Portugal in 1996 by singer, songwriter and producer Tony Carreira. The band, made up of Sofia, Carla Janeiro, Dulce Areia, Nicole Quartin and Sónia Brazão, released their first album, Entrega…
seBENTA
seBENTA are a Portuguese rock band. The project began in 2004 and features Paulecas (bass and vocals), André Fadista (drums), Ricko (guitars) His first album released was “O Beijo” in 2006, produced by Flak (Rádio Macau and Micro Audio Waves).…
Eight new songs and bands on the rise – Part 2
New songs are released every week on radio stations and top music programs. As it couldn’t be otherwise, today we’re going to reveal some new bands and songs as well as their video clips. Oviously not all of this songs…
Cascais Garage Radio Show
The radio show “Cascais Garage” is the meeting point for Portuguese Pop and Rock music.In this weekly program presented by Cláudio Silva, emerging projects in the national music scene are presented, with the main emphasis on national garage bands. If…
The Portuguese hip-hop classics that made history
Source: timeout.pt It started in Portugal in the late 1980s; late, if we compare it to the work that was already being done on the other side of the Atlantic. But that didn’t take away his hunger or strength. In…
Portuguese female DJs who give us music (and much more)
Source: paraeles.pt Almost all of us have taken on the role of disc jockey at some point in our lives. But there are those who take the art of choosing music very seriously. So much so that it is a…
Eight new songs and bands on the rise – Part 1
New songs are released every week on radio stations and top music programs. As it couldn’t be otherwise, today we’re going to reveal some new bands and songs as well as their video clips. Oviously not all of this songs…
Mundo Segundo
Mundo Segundo (born Edmundo Silva, Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, 1978) is a Portuguese MC, producer and former b-boy. He is an unavoidable hip-hop figure and one of the movement’s most active ambassadors in Portugal, best known for being one…
Tonicha
Portuguese singer, full name Antónia de Jesus Montes Tonicha, was born on March 8, 1946, in Beja. She started on the stage at Sociedade Capricho Bejense at a very young age. She took her exams at Emissora Nacional, for which…
José Cid
José Albano Cid de Ferreira Tavares (born 4 February 1942) is a Portuguese singer, composer and record producer. Internationally, Cid is best known for his 1978 progressive rock album 10,000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte and for representing Portugal…
What is actually… the Portuguese Guitar
Like other European cisterns, it represents both in terms of tuning and in terms of the construction of its interior and exterior, one of the direct developments of the Renaissance European cistern. This instrument was strongly present in court music…
Adiafa
The popular music group ADIAFA was created by musicians José Emídio and Paulo Colaço, around 1998 and at its genesis is the dissemination and interpretation of the cante campaniço from Baixo-Alentejano, and the recovery of its traditional instrument – the…
4Taste
Source: Last.fm & (Mariana Jerónimo) 4Taste is a Portuguese rock band, composed by David Gama (bass), Francisco Borges (drums), Luke d’Eça (vocals and guitar) and Nelson Patrão (guitar). All of them had joined other bands before 4Taste, Nelson and…
D’Zrt
D’ZRT was a Portuguese pop group formed in 2004, integrated in the teen soap opera Morangos com Açúcar, broadcast by TVI. The group is composed by Paulo Vintém, Cifrão and Edmundo Vieira, initially integrating Angélico Vieira, who perished during the…
Chinchilas
Source: Luís Pinheiro de Almeida / guedelhudos.blogspot.com Chinchilas (1967): Filipe Mendes, 20 years old, soloist, Alfredo José, 19 years old, bass, José Machado, 18 years old, keyboardist, and Vítor Mamede, 17 years old, drummer. A pioneering group of psychedelic rock…
