Anabela
Anabela Braz Pires (born 22 September 1976 in Almada) is a Portuguese singer and musical theatre actress, best known in Portugal by her first name, Anabela. Her career in music has spanned over decades, and she is well known for…
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Mariza
Marisa dos Reis Nunes, born 16 December 1973, known professionally as Mariza, is a Portuguese fado singer. Mariza was born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, to a Portuguese father, José Brandão Nunes, and a Mozambican mother, Isabel Nunes. When she…
Victor Espadinha
Victor Manuel Marques Espadinha is a Portuguese musician and actor. He lived in Mozambique between 1956 and 1964. His artistic life began in Lourenço Marques, at Teatro Avenida. He was also a journalist at the newspaper “A Tribuna”, in Lourenço…
Francisco Fanhais
Francisco Fanhais, interpreter of Portuguese intervention music, was one of the voices of resistance to the regime before the 25th of April. A companion of Zeca Afonso, he continues to this day to try to “unite those for whom the…
Camané
Camané (born Carlos Manuel Moutinho Paiva dos Santos Duarte, 20 December 1966 in Oeiras) is a male vocalist and a forerunner of the new generation of fado male singers. “The greatest fadista since Amália Rodrigues and Maria da Fé,” is…
Simone De Oliveira
Simone de Macedo e Oliveira, better known by Simone de Oliveira, is a Portuguese singer and actress. Simone was born in Lisbon to a mother with roots in São Tomé and Príncipe and a Belgian father. She started singing in…
The Gift
The Gift is a Portuguese alternative rock band, formed in 1994. They have released eight albums to date. In 2005 they won the MTV Europe award for best Portuguese act. Formed in 1994, The Gift was initially a side project…
António Zambujo
Born in Beja, on September 19, 1975, António Zambujo is one of the greatest contemporary artists, authors and interpreters of Portuguese music and language, and one of its most notable ambassadors in the world. On the ninth album, eighth of…
Fingertips
Fingertips are a pop rock band from Portugal formed in 2002. They launched their debut album “All ‘Bout Smoke ‘n Mirrors” in 2003 and achieved #1 on radio airplay with the first single “Melancholic Ballad” where it also included “Picture…
Mundo Secreto
Mundo Secreto is a Portuguese band from Leça da Palmeira, (Porto) based on Hip-Hop. 1999-2005From R&B, Funk, to Soul, but always with a greater focus on Hip-Hop, Mundo Secreto (MDS) emerged in 1999, with a formation of five elements: Diogo,…
JP Simões
J.P. Simões is a portuguese musician, singer-songwriter who also writes fiction and musical theatre. His music and live performances are very well known and celebrated, especially in Portugal and Brasil. Played in many bands such as Pop Dell’Arte, Belle Chase…
DJ Diego Miranda
Diego Miranda is one of the most influential portuguese Djs and producers. He has the merit of having approximated dance music to mainstream in a magical way, where, through the music, he has accomplished a great international prominence. Diego Miranda´s…
Dulce Pontes
Dulce José Silva Pontes (born 8 April 1969) is a Portuguese songwriter and singer who performs in many musical styles, including pop, folk, and classical music. She is usually defined as a world music artist. Her songs contributed to the…
Jorge Palma
Jorge Manuel de Abreu Palma (born 4 June 1950) is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. A well-known and acclaimed songwriter in Portugal, Palma has achieved success with songs such as “Deixa-me Rir”, “Frágil” and “Encosta-te a Mim”. Jorge Palma was…
Joker
One of the biggest one hit wonders in Portugal, the song Easy come and go was played a lot in the 90’s and became the image of the band Joker, in its short period of life. It was in the…
Tony De Matos
One of the greatest romantic singers in our country. Tony de Matos marked an era with his presence on stage and his sweet voice, a true crooner and a fado singer of choice. Tony de Matos was born in Porto…
Dina
Dina, stage name of Ondina Maria Farias Veloso (June 18, 1956 – April 11, 2019), was a Portuguese singer, known for the single “amor de Água fresca”. She was born on June 8, 1956, in Carregal do Sal, district of…
Sétimo Céu
Formed by the brothers Rosado (Sérgio and Nélson), Pedro Camilo and Telmo Miranda, the group Sétimo Céu had their biggest success in the song “It was just a look”, appearing a little everywhere, whether on the radio or on television…
Manuela Moura Guedes
Manuela Moura Guedes (Cadaval, December 23, 1955) is a Portuguese television professional and former singer. Manuela Moura Guedes was born in Cadaval and lived in Torres Vedras, where she attended the Liceu Nacional. From there, she went to the Faculty…
Trabalhadores Do Comércio
In 1979, Sérgio Castro and Álvaro Azevedo founded the Trade Workers (Trabalhadores Do Comércio). The main characteristics of the group were the fact of singing in nortense (Portuguese with a northern accent) and the humor of the lyrics of the…
Fausto
Carlos Fausto Bordalo Gomes Dias was born on November 26, 1948, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, between Portugal and Angola, aboard a ship. His first 20 years of life are divided between Africa and Europe, but it is…
Censurados
Censurados formed in 1988, by João Ribas (ex-Kú de Judas and vocalist), Orlando Cohen (ex-Peste & Sida and guitarist), Fred Valsassina (bassist) and Samuel Palitos (drummer), and is one of the essential bands of Portuguese Rock of the 90s decade. The…
Kú De Judas
Ku de Judas was a Portuguese hardcore punk band formed in 1983. Inspired by the first album by Xutos & Pontapés (78/82), Fernando Serpa (Serpinha), João Pedro Almendra (Autistic) and Carlos Aguilar (Bago d’Uva) decided to form a band that…
José Mário Branco
Times change, wills change, announced José Mário Branco in his first album, released in 1971 in France, where he was in exile. This album, with poems by Natália Correia, Alexandre O’Neill, Luís de Camões and Sérgio Godinho, would be a…
Manuel Freire
Manuel Freire was born on April 25, 1942 and is one of the leading figures of a generation of intervention musicians who sang the Carnation Revolution. Many will think he was born in Ovar, but no. He was born in…
What is actually… Hip Hop Tuga
Also known as Portuguese Hip Hop, this genre arrived in the Portuguese country in the 80s, but became much more popular in the following decade. At first, the style invaded the suburbs of Lisbon. Regions such as Maia, Amadora and…
Lúcia Moniz
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 Gama
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…
