André Sardet
With 19 years of career, between six albums, many shows and many victories, André Sardet is today a name unanimously recognized by critics and the public in the Portuguese music scene. André edited his first original album at the age…
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Paulo De Carvalho
“More than a singer I am a musician, I play voice” Paulo de Carvalho is an unavoidable name in Portuguese music in recent decades. Making his professional career outside the system, he has not always seen his work recognized or…
Belle Chase Hotel
Belle Chase Hotel is a Portuguese music band, originally from Coimbra, formed in 1995. The project was born at the end of 1995. The name was taken from a tragic passage in the film Down by Law by Jim Jarmush,…
Allen Halloween
Portuguese alternative and horrorcore rapper, singer and producer from Odivelas, born August 4th 1980 in Guinea. He began rapping in 1995/96, and was a founding member of Youth Kriminals in 1999. Considered one of the great names of new Portuguese…
Raquel Tavares
Raquel Tavares was born on January 11, 1985 in Lisbon.Her name gained national notoriety in fado for the first time in 1997, the year in which, at the age of 12, she won the Grande Noite do Fado, an initiative…
Humanos
Humanos was a Portuguese musical project, created in 2004 with the aim of interpreting unpublished songs by the Portuguese singer of the 80s, António Variações. The band consists of: Camané, David Fonseca, Manuela Azevedo and Hélder Gonçalves dos (Clã), Nuno…
Linda de Suza
Linda de Suza (Beringel, Beja, February 22, 1948), stage name of Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa Lance, is one of the most famous Portuguese singers, an emigrant in France. She was forever recognized for her cardboard suitcase, which spawned a best-selling…
The reasons why people give up from a webradio station
There are some concrete and relevant reasons that lead a “radio broadcaster” or radio entertainer to leave a web radio in xats or other types of rooms. First and foremost, we have to understand that this type of online radio…
Mafalda Veiga
Ana Mafalda da Veiga Marques dos Santos, better known as Mafalda Veiga (Lisbon, December 24, 1965), is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. She has so far released ten albums, seven of which are studio albums. Praia is her latest album.…
Expensive Soul
Expensive Soul is a musical group from Leça da Palmeira, composed by António Conde, known as Demo (MC), and Tiago Novo, known as New Max (singer/MC/musician/producer). They started in 1999, but only in 2004 they became better known with the…
Ala Dos Namorados
Ala dos Namorados is a Portuguese musical group created in 1992 by João Gil, Manuel Paulo, and João Monge, who were later joined by José Moz Carrapa. The group discovered Nuno Guerreiro, in a show by Carlos Paredes, and invited…
Lara Li
Lara Li, stage name of Lara Pires Amendoeira born in Lisbon, December 28, 1958, is a Portuguese singer. The song “Telepathy” (1981) is her ex-libris. At the age of 4, she goes to Mozambique with her parents, where she begins…
Trovante
Trovante started in the summer of 1976 in Sagres, when a group of friends (João Nuno Represas, Luís Represas, Manuel Faria, João Gil and Artur Costa) got together to make music. In 1977 they recorded their first album Chão Nosso,…
DJ Vibe
António Pereira, better known by his stage name DJ Vibe, is a Portuguese DJ Vibe was fifteen years old when he began to pay more attention to music and to show greater interest in what was sold in his father’s…
Blasted Mechanism
Blasted Mechanism are a Portuguese alternative rock band, composed by members Valdjiu (bambuleco, calachacra, guitars), Ary (bass), Guitsu (vocals, keyboards), Fred Stone (drums) and, more recently, Riic Wolf (vocals). Although centered on rock, his music uses several electronic elements. Blasted…
GNR
GNR (acronym for Grupo Novo Rock) is a Portuguese pop rock band, formed in Porto, in 1980, by Alexandre Soares (vocals and guitar), Vitor Rua (guitar) and Tóli César Machado (drums). Despite the fact that the group emerged with the…
Braindead
Braindead were a Portuguese band formed in Almada in 1988. Before Da Weasel, João Nobre founded and played guitar in Braindead, a band from Almada that started out playing thrash metal but, upon reaching its first album, alienated part of…
António Variações
The life and work of António Variações (born António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro) follow the apotheotic-apocalyptic trend of many of the great media figures of the 20th century: a period of intense public visibility accompanied by a creative frenzy that was…
Roxigénio
Roxigénio began their activities in 1980, led by António Garcez (from Porto’s Arte & Ofício). At the age of 33, Garcez was a figure of Portuguese Rock that did not go unnoticed, due to his “performances” on stage and some…
Sérgio Godinho
Sérgio Godinho was born in 1945, in Porto. His mother and uncle had had musical training, which influenced him as a child, and his father was, in Sérgio Godinho’s description, a music lover; he soon got used to listening to…
Go Graal Blues Band
The Go Graal Blues Band was a Portuguese blues rock group formed in 1975 that, contrary to what was usual at the time, sang only in English. The Go Graal Blues Band makes its appearance in 1975, integrating João Allain…
Lena d’Água
Helena Maria de Jesus Águas, known as Lena d’Água (Lisbon, June 16, 1956), is a Portuguese singer and author.She was born in Lisbon on June 16, 1956, the first child of José Águas, the central striker and captain of the…
Rita Guerra
Rita Maria de Azevedo Mafra Guerra, known only as Rita Guerra is a Portuguese singer. It was in the Azores, where she lived for four years, that she started singing and playing the piano at the same time. She developed…
Santamaria
Santamaria are a Portuguese Eurodance-style band formed in 1998. The band is originally from Santa Maria de Lamas, in northern Portugal. Selling over 1 million copies, the band has already won 21 platinum and two gold records. The group has…
Beto
Albertino João Santos Pereira, better known as Beto, (Peniche, December 28, 1967 – Caldas da Rainha, May 23, 2010) was one of the greatest Portuguese romantic singers of his generation. Biography At age 5 he started singing. At the age…
Adelaide Ferreira
Maria Adelaide Mengas Matafome Ferreira, better known as Adelaide Ferreira, is a Portuguese actress and singer. He received training in theater through CENDREV – Centro Dramático de Évora (1976) and then joined Grupo 4 at Teatro Aberto, where he worked…
Mini Stars
The Ministars were the first Portuguese children’s music group. The Ministars began as a musical group made up of boys and girls aged between ten and twelve years old, which, at Christmas 1986, released their first LP. This record had…
Carlos Paião
Carlos Manuel Marques Paião (1 November 1957 in Coimbra – 26 August 1988 in Rio Maior) was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Lisbon (1983), eventually dedicating himself exclusively to music. He was…
