Paco Bandeira
Francisco Veredas Bandeiras (Asunción, Elvas, 2 May 1945), pseudonym Paco Bandeira, is a Portuguese singer and composer. With more than forty years of musical career, […]
Category: Pieces of History
Teresa Maiuko
Teresa Maiuko was born in Mozambique, in the former Lourenço Marques. In 1985 she debuted as a singer in Trópico, a dance group that left […]
Ocaso Épico
Ocaso Épico were formed in 1981 by Farinha (Carlos Cordeiro). The theme “Memórias”, recorded on October 19, 1984, by Farinha (voice, guitar, flute, keys), Alberto […]
Vozes da Rádio
Vozes da Rádio are a male vocal group formed in 1991 in the city of Porto. With almost twenty albums released and a career marked […]
Conjunto António Mafra
The Conjunto António Mafra was formed in 1955, in the Grupo Dramático da Arrábida(…) The Mafras brothers (António and Zé) soon invited him to form a group with Mário João Ferreira Leite, as technical director. Then the group “CAIXINHA DE SURPRESAS” was born.
Dead Combo
Dead Combo was a Portuguese band whose main musical influences were Fado, Rock, Western soundtracks, as well as music from South America and Africa. The […]
Ena Pá 2000
Source: megaagencia.com Ena Pá 2000 are a Portuguese rock band. Formed in 1984 and is characterized by the nonsense and sometimes pornographic humor of its […]
Minas & Armadilhas
Minas & Armadilhas was one of the first Portuguese punk rock bands, formed in Lisbon in 1978. They had an ephemeral career and did not […]
What was the “boom” of Portuguese rock
Source: RUN – Repositório Universidade NovaEditores: Andrade, Ricardo Miguel Bernardes “This dissertation addresses the various musical, editorial and promotional processes that characterized the so-called “boom […]
Roberto Leal
Roberto Leal, stage name of António Joaquim Fernandes, (Macedo de Cavaleiros, 27 November 1951 — São Paulo, 15 September 2019) was a Portuguese singer, composer […]
What is actually… Cante Alentejano
Cante Alentejano is a traditional musical genre from Alentejo, Portugal. Cante was never the only expression of traditional music in Alentejo, in fact it is […]
Resistência
Resistência, one of the most emblematic formations of Portuguese music from the first half of the 90s, a super-group responsible for some unforgettable successes. The […]
ESSA ENTENTE
Essa Entente is a Portuguese pop/rock band formed by Paulo Riço (vocals and acoustic guitar), Paulo Sousa (electric guitar) and Paulo Neto (drums), and Manuel […]
What is actually… Folclore
Sources: CNC / Patrimatic / e-cultura.pt / Lino Mendes Type of Heritage:Intangible Heritage As early as 1878, Folklore was recognized internationally as “traditional knowledge, the […]
Maria Da Fé
Her baptism name is Maria da Conceição da Costa Marques; she was born in Porto on the 25 May 1942. Her mother had 17 sons, […]
Maria Severa, the first Fado icon in Portugal
Maria Severa is, perhaps, the first fado icon in Portugal. She only lived for 26 years – from 1820 to 1846 –, but Maria Severa […]
Aqui D’El Rock
A dance group called Osiris, formed by four members living in Lisbon, became one of the first punk music groups in Portugal: Aqui d’El Rock. […]
Hoje Project
The Hoje project began in 2009 as an idea from Nuno Gonçalves from The Gift: to bring Amália Rodrigues’ fados to the universe of contemporary […]