Tag: Eurovision

Mimicat

Portugal Music

Marisa Isabel Lopes Mena, (Coimbra, October 25, 1984), better known as Mimicat, is a Portuguese pop and soul singer and songwriter. She won the Festival RTP da Canção in 2023. She introduced herself to the world in 2014, but recorded her first album at the age of 9. Self-taught singer-songwriter from a very young age, she spent her teens between school and recording studios. She participated, aged just 15 and with the artistic name of Izamena, in the 3rd semifinal of the Festival RTP da Canção 2001 with the song…

Armando Gama

Portugal Music

Armando António Capelo Diniz da Gama (1 April 1954 – 17 January 2022) was a Portuguese singer-songwriter and baritone opera singer, whose physical trademark for decades was his shoulder-length jet black hair. Gama grew up in Portuguese Angola, an overseas territory of Portugal by then, and lived there until the age of 17. Upon moving to mainland Portugal in 1971, he scored the first of many No. 1 hits on the Portuguese music charts. He was well-versed in performing piano and solfège, having studied them at the music conservatory in…

Da Vinci – Portuguese Band

Portugal Music

Da Vinci are a Portuguese pop rock band from the 1980s, composed by Pedro Luís and Iei-Or. The band participated in the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Conquistador”. Da Vinci formed in 1982. That year they had great success with the singles “Lisboa Ano 10.000/Fantasmas” and “Hiroxima (Meu Amor)”. In 1983 they released the album Caminhando and the single “Xau Xau de Shanghai”. The albums “Anjo Anzul” (1984), “Momentos de Paixão” (1985) and “Prince of Xanadu” (1986) followed. They change to Discosette and in 1988 the album A…