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Valete

Valete, stage name of Keidje Torres Lima, is a Portuguese rapper, of Santomean origin. He began to actively participate in the hip-hop movement in Portugal in 1997. He is known for his anti-capitalist, left-wing agendas that portray social issues in…

Sofia Lisboa

Sofia Lisboa (born in France in 1977) is a Portuguese singer. She was the secondary vocalist of Silence 4. She was born in France, the daughter of Portuguese emigrants, who returned to Leiria in 1988, where she completed her secondary…

David Fonseca

Source: FNAC David Fonseca is one of the most charismatic voices in Portuguese music. Born in Leiria, his name is inseparable from that of the band he voiced, the group Silence 4. Formed in 1998, the group quickly established itself…

Royalistick

Born on February 4, 1982, in Lisbon, Royalistick started living and breathing Hip Hop at the age of 16. First, he started with mixtapes (DJ Sas, DJ Madkutz), participated in several compilations (Beats & Rimas, Rádio SóHIPHOP, mixtape FreeSpeech, DJ…

Bizarra Locomotiva

Precursors of Industrial music in our country, Bizarra Locomotiva are today the main reference of the genre in the Portuguese music scene. Its history dates back to 1993, when Rui Sidónio (voice) and Armando Teixeira (voice and machinery) formed a…

Carolina Deslandes

Maria Carolina Martinez Deslandes is a Portuguese singer and songwriter born in Lisbon, August 27, 1991. Singer and composer, Carolina Deslandes is one of the references in national music. At just 30 years old, the singer has long won the…

Agir

Bernardo Correia Ribeiro de Carvalho Costa, better known as Agir, is a Portuguese singer, record producer and musician born in Lisbon on March 18, 1988. He is one of the most successful Portuguese pop artists of the 2010s. Bernardo Costa…

RAMP

The R.A.M.P. are a Portuguese thrash metal band, formed in 1988, in the municipality of Seixal. Of the classic elements of the formation, only Ricardo Mendonça (guitar) and Rui Duarte (vocals) remain. With 9 released albums, R.A.M.P. prove to be…

Milénio

In the early 1990s, boy bands proliferated in Portugal, and one of the most notable was called Milénio. Five well-presented boys who took advantage of the wave launched by Excesso and rode it for a few years, taking advantage of…

Alfredo Marceneiro

Alfredo Rodrigues Duarte was born in a house on Travessa de Santa Quitéria, in São Bento, on February 29, 1892 — an unusual date that only happens every four years. Therefore, his mother officially registered the birth as having occurred…

Ana Malhoa

Ana Sofia Lopes Malhoa was born in Lisbon, August 6, 1979, known as Ana Malhoa, is a Portuguese singer, songwriter, presenter, producer and businesswoman. Daughter of popular singer José Malhoa, she began her musical career in 1985, alongside her father.…

Quinta do Bill

With a career spanning over 30 years and a set of unique songs, QUINTA DO BILL is arguably the greatest Portuguese folk rock band. The eight albums of edited originals prove the diversity of a work that mixes the emotion…

Ritual Tejo

The name Ritual Tejo appeared at the end of 1988, right after the still Easy Gents had won the 5th Modern Music Contest of Rock Rendezvous. Ten months after Paulo Costa joined José Manuel Afonso and Artur Santos, it was…

Mónica Sintra

Mónica Sintra, stage name of Mónica Alexandra Correia Cachopo, (Lisbon, June 10, 1978) is a Portuguese singer. In 1992 she joined the Jovem Cantores de Lisboa, a choir directed by singer Ana Faria with whom she recorded two albums. She…

DJ Carlos Manaça

Carlos Manaça is one of the main Portuguese DJ’s and producers and has been an essential part of the country’s Underground dance scene since its very beginning. In 2021 celebrated 35 years inside a DJ booth but his DJ schedule…

Calema

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.…

Kadoc CD

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

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…

Mário Mata

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

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…

Gebriela Schaff

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 Soares

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…

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