Sources: antoniopinhovargas.com / anos80.no.sapo.pt António Pinho Vargas was born in Vila Nova de Gaia in 1951. Composer, musician and essayist. Graduated in History from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto. Piano degree from the Porto Conservatory (1987)…
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 band consisted of just two members: Tó Trips (guitars) and Pedro V. Gonçalves (double bass,…
Sindicato were created at the end of the 1960s. This project was practically a “who’s who” of national rock at the time. Ricardo Levy and Júlio Gomes (guitars), Edmundo Falé (vocals, ex-Ekos and Conjunto Mistério), João Maló (guitar, ex-Chinchilas), Eduardo…
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 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…
The band Arte & Ofício emerged in 1976, when bassist Sérgio Castro and vocalist António Garcez, two former members of Psico, decided to form a rock group. This initial nucleus is joined by Álvaro Azevedo (ex-Pop Five Music Inc), on…
