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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,…

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.…

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 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).…

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…

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 (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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

Group formed in September 1985. That year they presented a multimedia show, organized by CM Almada, with the participation of António Manuel Ribeiro. In 1986 they presented the shows “Coloreto I” and “Coloreto II”. In early 1987, the group was…

Source: Sony Music Portugal, PG Booking, Play, Glam Magazine SYRO is the artistic name of Diogo Lopes who was born in Barreiro on February 23, 1995, a young man who since the age of 12 has been connected to the…

Source: quilometrosquecontam.com They became part of the popular Portuguese songbook and even today everyone knows them. Go on the weekend to the sound of Portuguese rock classics from the 80s. If you grew up with bombocas, Naranjito dolls and still…

In 1983, Filipe Valentim joined the band formed by Xana, Alex and Flak. After recording a model, they get their first contract with the publisher EMI – Valentim de Carvalho. The band’s first original album appeared in 1984, simply titled…

Carlos Eduardo Teixeira Mendes, better known as Carlos Mendes, is a Portuguese architect, presenter, singer, songwriter and actor born on May 23, 1947 in Lisbon. In 1963 he was one of the founders of the group “Sheiks”, which he left…

Sources: www.cascais.pt The Grandfather Songs. What would you answer if you were asked: “Who is the best-known grandfather in Portugal?” …It’s him we’re talking about: Avô Cantigas. The musical pedagogue who has delighted generations for over 30 years and who, in an…

Nonstop was a Portuguese girl group, formed with the winners of the Popstars television musical contest, broadcast on SIC in 2001. The group was formed by Andrea, Kátia, Fátima, Liliana and Rita. Although they never announced the end of the…