Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz (born 9 September 1976) is a Portuguese singer and actress. Moniz represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 and has released five music albums to date. She has also acted in several television shows, in…
Armando António Capelo Diniz da Gama (1 April 1954 – 17 January 2022) was a Portuguese singer-songwriter and baritone opera singer, whose physical trademark for decades was his shoulder-length jet black hair. Gama grew up in Portuguese Angola, an overseas…
Carlos Paredes was born in Coimbra on 16 February 1925. His father was Artur Paredes, an acclaimed player of Portuguese guitar from Coimbra. His grandfather Gonçalo Paredes, his great-uncle Manuel Paredes and his great-grandfather António Paredes were also guitar players.…
Eduardo Nascimento was the singer who won the Festival RTP da Canção on February 25, 1967, still held at Tobis Studios, in Lisbon. With the Rocks debut album released shortly before, the singer was the first singer of a “modern”…
Eugénia was born in the city of Covilhã, central inland Portugal, in 1958, and lived in the city until she was 15. She left the city for studying in Lisbon. Her father, Ernesto de Melo e Castro, is a poet, professor…
Her passion for music was felt since she was a little girl, without ever having, despite that, aspired to be an artist. However, the show business ends up winning her over while still in college, in her 5th year of…
Carlos Alberto Moniz was born in Angra do Heroísmo, Azores Archipelago on August 2, 1948. He studied at the Portuguese Institute of Agronomy, but music has always been his passion. This musician has a long career in music as an…
Paulo Gonzo’s 30-year career makes him an icon of Portuguese music, not only for an entire generation that grew up listening to him but also for a new wave of fans and artists who are inspired by him and listen…
Cláudia Pascoal (São Pedro da Cova, Gondomar, October 12, 1993) is a Portuguese singer. She started playing guitar when she was 15 years old. In recent years, she has emerged in national music and television circles through participation in musical…
With 19 years of career, between six albums, many shows and many victories, André Sardet is today a name unanimously recognized by critics and the public in the Portuguese music scene. André edited his first original album at the age…
“More than a singer I am a musician, I play voice” Paulo de Carvalho is an unavoidable name in Portuguese music in recent decades. Making his professional career outside the system, he has not always seen his work recognized or…
Belle Chase Hotel is a Portuguese music band, originally from Coimbra, formed in 1995. The project was born at the end of 1995. The name was taken from a tragic passage in the film Down by Law by Jim Jarmush,…
Portuguese alternative and horrorcore rapper, singer and producer from Odivelas, born August 4th 1980 in Guinea. He began rapping in 1995/96, and was a founding member of Youth Kriminals in 1999. Considered one of the great names of new Portuguese…
Raquel Tavares was born on January 11, 1985 in Lisbon.Her name gained national notoriety in fado for the first time in 1997, the year in which, at the age of 12, she won the Grande Noite do Fado, an initiative…
Humanos was a Portuguese musical project, created in 2004 with the aim of interpreting unpublished songs by the Portuguese singer of the 80s, António Variações. The band consists of: Camané, David Fonseca, Manuela Azevedo and Hélder Gonçalves dos (Clã), Nuno…
Linda de Suza (Beringel, Beja, February 22, 1948), stage name of Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa Lance, is one of the most famous Portuguese singers, an emigrant in France. She was forever recognized for her cardboard suitcase, which spawned a best-selling…
There are some concrete and relevant reasons that lead a “radio broadcaster” or radio entertainer to leave a web radio in xats or other types of rooms. First and foremost, we have to understand that this type of online radio…
Ana Mafalda da Veiga Marques dos Santos, better known as Mafalda Veiga (Lisbon, December 24, 1965), is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. She has so far released ten albums, seven of which are studio albums. Praia is her latest album.…
Expensive Soul is a musical group from Leça da Palmeira, composed by António Conde, known as Demo (MC), and Tiago Novo, known as New Max (singer/MC/musician/producer). They started in 1999, but only in 2004 they became better known with the…
Ala dos Namorados is a Portuguese musical group created in 1992 by João Gil, Manuel Paulo, and João Monge, who were later joined by José Moz Carrapa. The group discovered Nuno Guerreiro, in a show by Carlos Paredes, and invited…
Lara Li, stage name of Lara Pires Amendoeira born in Lisbon, December 28, 1958, is a Portuguese singer. The song “Telepathy” (1981) is her ex-libris. At the age of 4, she goes to Mozambique with her parents, where she begins…
Trovante started in the summer of 1976 in Sagres, when a group of friends (João Nuno Represas, Luís Represas, Manuel Faria, João Gil and Artur Costa) got together to make music. In 1977 they recorded their first album Chão Nosso,…
António Pereira, better known by his stage name DJ Vibe, is a Portuguese DJ Vibe was fifteen years old when he began to pay more attention to music and to show greater interest in what was sold in his father’s…
Blasted Mechanism are a Portuguese alternative rock band, composed by members Valdjiu (bambuleco, calachacra, guitars), Ary (bass), Guitsu (vocals, keyboards), Fred Stone (drums) and, more recently, Riic Wolf (vocals). Although centered on rock, his music uses several electronic elements. Blasted…
GNR (acronym for Grupo Novo Rock) is a Portuguese pop rock band, formed in Porto, in 1980, by Alexandre Soares (vocals and guitar), Vitor Rua (guitar) and Tóli César Machado (drums). Despite the fact that the group emerged with the…
Braindead were a Portuguese band formed in Almada in 1988. Before Da Weasel, João Nobre founded and played guitar in Braindead, a band from Almada that started out playing thrash metal but, upon reaching its first album, alienated part of…
The life and work of António Variações (born António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro) follow the apotheotic-apocalyptic trend of many of the great media figures of the 20th century: a period of intense public visibility accompanied by a creative frenzy that was…
Roxigénio began their activities in 1980, led by António Garcez (from Porto’s Arte & Ofício). At the age of 33, Garcez was a figure of Portuguese Rock that did not go unnoticed, due to his “performances” on stage and some…
