Also known as internet radios or online radios – it is a digital radio that broadcasts its programs over the Internet using streaming technology, through a real-time transmission service. For many years, web radios have been one of the best…
Calema is a musical duo of brothers from São Tomé and Príncipe, with origins in Portugal, formed by the two brothers António Mendes Ferreira and Fradique Mendes Ferreira. The duo’s name refers to the special swell on the African coast.…
In the early 1990s, Rádio Cidade dominated most radio sets for teenagers in Portugal with its irreverent and diverse programming, and one of the favorite programs by the staff was Electricidade. They were dance songs, at a time when many…
Anyone who went through the 90s will certainly remember this mythical collection by Vidisco. The cd came out in 1996, with the great DJ Chus in charge of doing all the work, which included songs like Seven days and one…
Bárbara Tinoco was born in Lisbon (Portugal) on November 16, 1998, is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. She became known for her participation in the talent contest The Voice Portugal, in 2018. Two years later, she reached 2nd place at…
Emerged in the midst of the effervescence of Portuguese popular music, in 1981 (between “Ar de Rock”, by Rui Veloso, and “Por Este Rio Acima”, by Fausto, which remained essential landmarks of that period), Mário Mata affirmed that if from…
Alémmar is a Portuguese music band, created in the 1990s, well known for the single “Deixa-me Olhar”.Originally named Anúbis, the Alémmar project was created in the 1990s. In 1997, they signed for the multinational MCA and became the only Portuguese…
Born in 1960 in Basel, Switzerland, to a Swiss father and Italian mother, she moved to Porto in 1971. Still a student at Colégio Alemão, she meets José Calvário at Lisbon Airport to whom she reveals that she loved to…
Alexandre José de Medeiros Pereira Soares was born in Porto, on June 15, 1958. As a teenager, he started playing the classical guitar. At the age of 18, he started playing the electric guitar. For some time he even played…
João Eduardo Salomé Vieira was born in the village of Redondo on May 17, 1947. His father was a goldsmith and an excellent singer who always encouraged his children to play music. Janita started singing at the age of 8…
A few days ago we entered a well-known chat room, and we could see that, as in many other rooms on the internet, there are radio administrators who discredit the image of one or another radio-broadcaster. Apparently there is a…
Radar Kadafi, one of the most pop-oriented groups in Portugal, emerged in 1984 in Lisbon. The original line-up consisted of Luís Gravato (vocals), Tiago Faden (bass), Fernando Pereira (guitar), Luís Sampaio (keyboards) and José Bruno (saxophone). The group’s name was…
Ronda dos Quatro Caminhos appears at the end of 1983. For some years now, musicians have been devoting their attention to popular culture, instruments and traditional music. Although in line with deep respect for the essential characteristics and specificity of…
The group emerged in 1985 in the city of Porto. In an interview with the Porto fanzine “Ressaca Viciosa” they stated that their goals were “to have fun, earn a lot of money and buy a cadillac in the short…
Roquivários formed in 1981, taking advantage of the emerging Portuguese Rock, especially after the great success of the LP “Ar de Rock”, by Rui Veloso. When they started they were called Rock & Varius and their name reflected what the…
Berg, stage name of Teófilo Sonnenberg, is a Portuguese singer and musician. Born in Angola, grew up in Porto and lived in Switzerland.Berg joined Rui Veloso’s band and appeared on albums by Boss AC, Rita Guerra, Nuno Guerreiro, Pedro Abrunhosa…
Afonsinhos do Condado was a Portuguese band founded in Lisbon in 1984, although it operated since 1978 under other names. Signed by PolyGram, through the intervention of Ricardo Camacho, they released their first record in 1987, a maxi-single with three…
Pólo Norte is a Portuguese musical band of pop rock style that appeared in 1992, succeeding the band Honoris Causae. Miguel Gameiro, António Villas-Boas, Rodrigo Ulrich, Francisco Aragão and Tiago Oliveira were the founders of the band. Miguel Gameiro is…
Brigada Victor Jara is a Portuguese band created in 1975. It began as an informal group of young people from Coimbra and has become one of the most enduring and important groups of traditional Portuguese music. The group remains active,…
Vitorino Salomé Vieira (Redondo, Portugal, June 11, 1942), or just Vitorino, as he is known, is a Portuguese singer. His music combines traditional folklore, mainly from Alentejo, and the popular style of his voice. Vitorino was born into a family…
Banda do Casaco (Portugal, 1974 -1984) was a Portuguese progressive rock and folk band. After the commercial failure of the Filarmónica Fraude project, António Avelar de Pinho (vocalist) and Luís Linhares (keyboards) joined former Música Novarum Nuno Rodrigues (vocalist, guitar)…
Of remote Galician origin, Luís Represas was very interested in music from an early age, proof of which is the fact that he bought his first guitar at the age of 13. He studied at Liceu Pedro Nunes in Lisbon.…
Born in Porto on August 10, 1959, Né Ladeiras is the artistic name of the Portuguese singer Maria de Nazaré de Azevedo Sobral Ladeiras. She was born into a family with great affinities with music. Her mother sang on radio…
Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares (born 1 February 1978) is a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist. She was born and brought up in Lisbon, Portugal, where she still lives. Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent, she composes African, Portuguese and…
Luís Fernando Castelo Branco Cília OL (born February 1, 1943 in Nova Lisboa, Angola) is a Portuguese composer and performer. Luís Cília is an intervention singer who, while in exile in France, denounced the colonial war and the lack of…
Maria Ermelinda Oliveira Duarte (Lourenço Marques, October 6, 1946) is a Portuguese singer, actress and dubber. In 1969 she joined TEL – Teatro Estúdio de Lisboa. In 1970 she played the role of Clara in the film Pedro Só by…
Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira, or just Adriano (April 9, 1942 – October 16, 1982) was a Portuguese musician, born to a conservative Roman Catholic family in Porto. His family moved to Avintes after his birth. He went to…
Trio Odemira was a Portuguese band founded in 1955. 1955-1967The brothers Júlio and Carlos Costa were still new to Odemira. The group Dois Odemira appeared in 1955, when they won a competition for new talents promoted by the radio program…
