Cristina Branco
Cristina Branco is an indefatigable ambassador of Portuguese culture around the world. Over the last two decades, she has established herself as one of the […]
Category: About Portuguese music culture
Paco Bandeira
Francisco Veredas Bandeiras (Asunción, Elvas, 2 May 1945), pseudonym Paco Bandeira, is a Portuguese singer and composer. With more than forty years of musical career, […]
CTT – Conjunto Típico Torreense
CTT emerged in the midst of the Portuguese Rock boom, trying to ride the wave of Rui Veloso, UHF and GNR. With origins in Conjunto […]
Teresa Maiuko
Teresa Maiuko was born in Mozambique, in the former Lourenço Marques. In 1985 she debuted as a singer in Trópico, a dance group that left […]
Mazgani
Shahryar Mazgani, is a song writer, singer and guitarist, born in Iran, but based in Portugal, since the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Katia Guerreiro
Katia Duarte d’Almeida d’Oliveira Rosado Guerreiro (23 February 1976), better known simply as Katia Guerreiro, is a Portuguese fado singer and ophthalmologist born in South […]
Repórter Estrábico
Repórter Estrábico is a Portuguese electronic pop rock band, formed in the 80s. This is a band from Porto that defines itself as the author […]
Ocaso Épico
Ocaso Épico were formed in 1981 by Farinha (Carlos Cordeiro). The theme “Memórias”, recorded on October 19, 1984, by Farinha (voice, guitar, flute, keys), Alberto […]
Conjunto António Mafra
The Conjunto António Mafra was formed in 1955, in the Grupo Dramático da Arrábida(…) The Mafras brothers (António and Zé) soon invited him to form a group with Mário João Ferreira Leite, as technical director. Then the group “CAIXINHA DE SURPRESAS” was born.
Edmundo Vieira
Edmundo Vieira, or just Edmundo (Portimão, November 22, 1983), is a Portuguese singer. He is especially known for being one of the four members of […]
Rodrigo Leão
Rodrigo Leão, his full name Rodrigo Costa Leão Muñoz Miguez (Lisbon, October 15, 1964) is a Portuguese musician and composer. He became known in the […]
Júlio Pereira
Júlio Pereira (Moscavide, December 22, 1953), his full name Júlio Fernando de Jesus Pereira, is a Portuguese musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. His music is […]
What is actually… Desgarradas?
Desgarrada, is a popular song in which the singers improvise, challenging and responding to each other, usually to the sound of a concertina. In addition […]
What was the “boom” of Portuguese rock
Source: RUN – Repositório Universidade NovaEditores: Andrade, Ricardo Miguel Bernardes “This dissertation addresses the various musical, editorial and promotional processes that characterized the so-called “boom […]
What is actually… Cante Alentejano
Cante Alentejano is a traditional musical genre from Alentejo, Portugal. Cante was never the only expression of traditional music in Alentejo, in fact it is […]
Os Quatro E Meia
Os Quatro e Meia (loose translation: “The Four and A Half”) are a band from Coimbra, Portugal. The band emerged in 2013, after a successful […]
DAMA (D.A.M.A.)
D.A.M.A (acronym for the expression Deixa-me Aclarar-te a Mente Amigo stylized as D.Δ.M.A or DAMA) is a Portuguese pop band, from Lisbon. The band, officially […]
Richie Campbell
Ricardo Dias de Lima Ventura da Costa, better known as Richie Campbell (Caxias, November 25, 1986), is a Portuguese Reggae, Dancehall and R&B singer. He […]