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…
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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).…
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…
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…
Santaluzia Rock Band – 80s
Single from 1988, commercially strong, but virtually unknown, from a group that brought together big names in Portuguese rock: Renato Gomes (ex UHF), Fernando Delaere (ex UHF, ex Roxigénio, ex GGBB, etc.) and Maria Leon (Marité). Renato Jr also belonged…
DJ Pete tha Zouk
Born and raised in Olhão, Algarve, land of seafood and on summer holidays, Pete started his career as a resident DJ in two spaces: Mitto, a bar that made a difference in the way the South views the beginning of…
Rock Rendez-Vous
The RRV was considered one of the most important spaces for Rock music in Portugal during the 1980s, and is now remembered as a mythical place for Rock music in Portugal. It was located in the former Universal cinema, at…
Mão Morta (Dead Hand)
It was in November 1984 that Mão Morta was formed, a Portuguese rock group from Braga, with Joaquim Pinto (bass), Miguel Pedro (guitar) and Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (vocals). Their sound calls for aggressive rock, sometimes hard, with a special emphasis…
Beatnicks
The “Beatnicks” were a band formed in 1965, following the Gil Vicente high school graduation party where João Ribeiro and António Jorge de Carvalho (finalists, at the time, of the high school course) formed a group that would become the…
Virgem Suta
The Virgin Suta are Nuno Figueiredo and Jorge Benvinda. In June 2009 they released the eponymous album which was produced by Hélder Gonçalves. The song Linhas Cruzadas was featured on the soundtrack of the Portuguese soap opera Olhos nos Olhos.The…
Petrus Castrus
Petrus Castrus is a progressive rock band formed in 1971 by the brothers Pedro Castro and José Castro. Petrus Castrus emerged as one of the first Symphonic Rock bands in Portugal, earning the status of “Pais do Rock” along with…
