Afonsinhos do Condado was a Portuguese band founded in Lisbon in 1984, although it operated since 1978 under other names. Signed by PolyGram, through the intervention of Ricardo Camacho, they released their first record in 1987, a maxi-single with three…
Pólo Norte is a Portuguese musical band of pop rock style that appeared in 1992, succeeding the band Honoris Causae. Miguel Gameiro, António Villas-Boas, Rodrigo Ulrich, Francisco Aragão and Tiago Oliveira were the founders of the band. Miguel Gameiro is…
Brigada Victor Jara is a Portuguese band created in 1975. It began as an informal group of young people from Coimbra and has become one of the most enduring and important groups of traditional Portuguese music. The group remains active,…
Vitorino Salomé Vieira (Redondo, Portugal, June 11, 1942), or just Vitorino, as he is known, is a Portuguese singer. His music combines traditional folklore, mainly from Alentejo, and the popular style of his voice. Vitorino was born into a family…
Banda do Casaco (Portugal, 1974 -1984) was a Portuguese progressive rock and folk band. After the commercial failure of the Filarmónica Fraude project, António Avelar de Pinho (vocalist) and Luís Linhares (keyboards) joined former Música Novarum Nuno Rodrigues (vocalist, guitar)…
Of remote Galician origin, Luís Represas was very interested in music from an early age, proof of which is the fact that he bought his first guitar at the age of 13. He studied at Liceu Pedro Nunes in Lisbon.…
Born in Porto on August 10, 1959, Né Ladeiras is the artistic name of the Portuguese singer Maria de Nazaré de Azevedo Sobral Ladeiras. She was born into a family with great affinities with music. Her mother sang on radio…
Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares (born 1 February 1978) is a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist. She was born and brought up in Lisbon, Portugal, where she still lives. Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent, she composes African, Portuguese and…
Luís Fernando Castelo Branco Cília OL (born February 1, 1943 in Nova Lisboa, Angola) is a Portuguese composer and performer. Luís Cília is an intervention singer who, while in exile in France, denounced the colonial war and the lack of…
Maria Ermelinda Oliveira Duarte (Lourenço Marques, October 6, 1946) is a Portuguese singer, actress and dubber. In 1969 she joined TEL – Teatro Estúdio de Lisboa. In 1970 she played the role of Clara in the film Pedro Só by…
Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira, or just Adriano (April 9, 1942 – October 16, 1982) was a Portuguese musician, born to a conservative Roman Catholic family in Porto. His family moved to Avintes after his birth. He went to…
Trio Odemira was a Portuguese band founded in 1955. 1955-1967The brothers Júlio and Carlos Costa were still new to Odemira. The group Dois Odemira appeared in 1955, when they won a competition for new talents promoted by the radio program…
Vânia Sofia Olim Marote de Ribeiro Fernandes (born 25 September 1985) is a Portuguese singer from Funchal, Madeira (Portugal). Known for her powerful stage presence, as well as her prominent and versatile voice, Vânia has participated in several singing contests…
Flor de Lis is a Portuguese folk music group which represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia, following their victory in the 45th edition of Festival da Canção, with the song “Todas as ruas do amor”…
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…
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 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, 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 (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 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 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…
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 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 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,…
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…
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 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 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…
