Tag: Childrens Music

Mini Stars

Portugal Music

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 an immediate and extraordinary success. António Manuel Rolo Duarte imported this idea from the Netherlands, where there was already a group with similar characteristics. The formula found was a kind of “Columbus’ egg”: it consisted of selecting a group of children (in this case, recruited first from the Children’s Choir…

Ana Faria (Queijinhos Frescos)

Portugal Music

Anabela de Faria Lucas dos Santos Gomes, better known as Ana Faria (born 18 October 1949 in Nova Lisboa, Angola and passed away on 17 August 2024) was a Portuguese singer and painter. Biography Ana Faria became a reference name in Portuguese children’s music when, after performing on RTP’s Zip-Zip program, in 1969, she released some singles, and later, in mid-1982, she decided to record a solo album (matured by his previous experiences in music integrated in the traditional music group Terra a Terra and with the recording of his…