Pedro Khima
Pedro Khima is one of the most recognized names in contemporary Portuguese music. With a career that spans more than two decades, he has shown his versatility and talent as a singer, songwriter and music producer. In this article, we…
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Cocktail
Cocktail was a Portuguese pop band in the 1970s. It was one of the first national girl bands. Names such as Rita Ribeiro, Maria Viana, Ágata and Lena Coelho passed through the group. The group recorded songs by Tozé Brito,…
Beatnicks
The “Beatnicks” were a band formed in 1965, following the Gil Vicente high school graduation party where João Ribeiro and António Jorge de Carvalho (finalists, at the time, of the high school course) formed a group that would become the…
Carlos Alberto Vidal (Grandfather Songs/Avô Cantigas)
Sources: www.cascais.pt The Grandfather Songs. What would you answer if you were asked: “Who is the best-known grandfather in Portugal?” …It’s him we’re talking about: Avô Cantigas. The musical pedagogue who has delighted generations for over 30 years and who, in an…
Joana Machado
Joana started her musical journey by taking piano lessons at the age of six.At 17, she moved to Lisbon and took classical singing lessons for a year. Later, in 1998, she entered Hot Clube’s Jazz School. In the year that…
Mário Laginha
Mário João Laginha dos Santos (Lisbon, April 25, 1960) is a Portuguese jazz pianist and composer. For Mário Laginha, making music is above all an act of sharing. And he has done so with strong musical personalities: Maria João, Bernardo…
Pop music in Portugal
The international opinion about Portuguese Music is that it’s Fado. Since 1939, when Amália Rodrigues, wowed audience wordwide with the songs of the urban poor fado has been the internationally popular genre from Portugal. Nowadays her younger heirs like Mariza,…
Carolina De Deus
Carolina de Deus is a 21-year-old singer and songwriter, a girl who is originally from Lisbon.Self-taught on the piano, at the age of 18, she took her first steps in music in the television competition La Banda, broadcast on RTP,…
Líderes da Nova Mensagem (Leaders of the New Message)
“Lideres da Nova Mensagem” were a Portuguese hip-hop band from Almada, from the late eighties and early nineties. Formed by MC Nilton, Pio MC, Beat Box King, Hugo Costa (Cyber G.), Pedro Manaças and DJ Jaws T, they actively participated…
Rita Redshoes
The history of the Portuguese singer Rita Redshoes in the musical universe began in 1996. At the time, the singer was known as Rita Pereira and played the role of drummer in the group of musicians that formed part of…
Calema
Calema is a musical duo of brothers from São Tomé and Príncipe, with origins in Portugal, formed by the two brothers António Mendes Ferreira and Fradique Mendes Ferreira. The duo’s name refers to the special swell on the African coast.…
Cães Vádios
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…
Brigada Victor Jara
Brigada Victor Jara is a Portuguese band created in 1975. It began as an informal group of young people from Coimbra and has become one of the most enduring and important groups of traditional Portuguese music. The group remains active,…
Sara Tavares
Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares (born 1 February 1978) is a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist. She was born and brought up in Lisbon, Portugal, where she still lives. Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent, she composes African, Portuguese and…
Mariza
Marisa dos Reis Nunes, born 16 December 1973, known professionally as Mariza, is a Portuguese fado singer. Mariza was born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, to a Portuguese father, José Brandão Nunes, and a Mozambican mother, Isabel Nunes. When she…
Francisco Fanhais
Francisco Fanhais, interpreter of Portuguese intervention music, was one of the voices of resistance to the regime before the 25th of April. A companion of Zeca Afonso, he continues to this day to try to “unite those for whom the…
António Zambujo
Born in Beja, on September 19, 1975, António Zambujo is one of the greatest contemporary artists, authors and interpreters of Portuguese music and language, and one of its most notable ambassadors in the world. On the ninth album, eighth of…
Fingertips
Fingertips are a pop rock band from Portugal formed in 2002. They launched their debut album “All ‘Bout Smoke ‘n Mirrors” in 2003 and achieved #1 on radio airplay with the first single “Melancholic Ballad” where it also included “Picture…
JP Simões
J.P. Simões is a portuguese musician, singer-songwriter who also writes fiction and musical theatre. His music and live performances are very well known and celebrated, especially in Portugal and Brasil. Played in many bands such as Pop Dell’Arte, Belle Chase…
Jorge Palma
Jorge Manuel de Abreu Palma (born 4 June 1950) is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. A well-known and acclaimed songwriter in Portugal, Palma has achieved success with songs such as “Deixa-me Rir”, “Frágil” and “Encosta-te a Mim”. Jorge Palma was…
Joker
One of the biggest one hit wonders in Portugal, the song Easy come and go was played a lot in the 90’s and became the image of the band Joker, in its short period of life. It was in the…
Dina
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…
Fausto
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…
Manuel Freire
Manuel Freire was born on April 25, 1942 and is one of the leading figures of a generation of intervention musicians who sang the Carnation Revolution. Many will think he was born in Ovar, but no. He was born in…
Cláudia Pascoal
Cláudia Pascoal (São Pedro da Cova, Gondomar, October 12, 1993) is a Portuguese singer. She started playing guitar when she was 15 years old. In recent years, she has emerged in national music and television circles through participation in musical…
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…
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…
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…
