Taking its name from a cantata by Johan Sebastian Bach (written as a funeral requiem), Actvs Tragicvs will emerge, during the year 1985, in Almada. Formed by Carlos Vara (vocals and guitar), Pedro Temporão (bass) and Fernado Melancia (drums), they…
Born in Lisbon, Bernardo Devlin took his first steps in music around 1985 when he was part of the projects Lourenço Marques and As Suas Próteses Dançantes or os Electrodomésticos. These collectives already included some of the musicians who were…
Source: underreviewcopy.blogspot.com The leader of the Pedro e os Apostolos project, Pedro de Freitas Branco, played his first chords on a Fender Telecaster owned by his father, Luís de Freitas Branco, who belonged to Claves. In 1988 he formed a…
José Albano Cid de Ferreira Tavares (born 4 February 1942) is a Portuguese singer, composer and record producer. Internationally, Cid is best known for his 1978 progressive rock album 10,000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte and for representing Portugal…
The RRV was considered one of the most important spaces for Rock music in Portugal during the 1980s, and is now remembered as a mythical place for Rock music in Portugal. It was located in the former Universal cinema, at…
Group formed in September 1985. That year they presented a multimedia show, organized by CM Almada, with the participation of António Manuel Ribeiro. In 1986 they presented the shows “Coloreto I” and “Coloreto II”. In early 1987, the group was…
Source: quilometrosquecontam.com They became part of the popular Portuguese songbook and even today everyone knows them. Go on the weekend to the sound of Portuguese rock classics from the 80s. If you grew up with bombocas, Naranjito dolls and still…
In 1983, Filipe Valentim joined the band formed by Xana, Alex and Flak. After recording a model, they get their first contract with the publisher EMI – Valentim de Carvalho. The band’s first original album appeared in 1984, simply titled…
Source: PGL.GAL The group Maio Moço was founded in 1985 by Vítor Reino. The other elements of the group – Ana Rita Reino, Sérgio Contreiras and João Simões Lima – had also been members of the groups Almanaque and Ronda…
BIOGRAPHY Urb was formed by vocalist João Alexandre (Chana), guitarist José Garcia (Zezé), drummer António Garcia (Nini) and bassist Rodrigo Pacheco (Chói). They participated in the II contest of modern music of Rock Rendez Vous where they obtained the 2nd…
Group from São Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve that formed in 1988 with the aim of participating in the Modern Music Competition of Rock Rendez Vous. The group was formed by Rui Santos (voice), Rui Farinha (guitar), Paulo Neto (bass) and…
The Doctors & Engineers group was formed in Algés. The vocalist was Xana, the guitarist Luís Moreno joined in 1986 and Ilídio Praia was one of the names that came to occupy the drums. In 1986 they recorded a demo…
A family friend encouraged her to participate in the selection contest for the Portuguese Cinderella, she did not win the contest but those responsible for selecting the candidates liked the contestant and invited her to defend the theme “Don’t Be…
In 1988, RTP changed the formula for choosing the song representing the Eurofestival. He invited five composers and the sixth song would be the winner of the National Music Award. The National Music Award took place on March 5, 1988…
Rão Kyao, stage name of João Maria Centeno Gorjão Jorge born in Lisbon, is a Portuguese musician and composer, famous as a bamboo flute and saxophone player. Outstanding musician, virtuous of the bamboo flute, Rão Kyao has a huge international…
Since I’m passionate about radio and since I was a little boy I’ve always listened to shows like A Hora Do Lobo and others by António Sérgio, today we’re going to pay tribute to this great radio host with an…
In the early 1990s, Rádio Cidade dominated most radio sets for teenagers in Portugal with its irreverent and diverse programming, and one of the favorite programs by the staff was Electricidade. They were dance songs, at a time when many…
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…
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…
Radar Kadafi, one of the most pop-oriented groups in Portugal, emerged in 1984 in Lisbon. The original line-up consisted of Luís Gravato (vocals), Tiago Faden (bass), Fernando Pereira (guitar), Luís Sampaio (keyboards) and José Bruno (saxophone). The group’s name was…
The group emerged in 1985 in the city of Porto. In an interview with the Porto fanzine “Ressaca Viciosa” they stated that their goals were “to have fun, earn a lot of money and buy a cadillac in the short…
Roquivários formed in 1981, taking advantage of the emerging Portuguese Rock, especially after the great success of the LP “Ar de Rock”, by Rui Veloso. When they started they were called Rock & Varius and their name reflected what the…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
