Docemania

Docemania is a 21st hundred years children’s music revise of Doce, a Portuguese gal group that was a pop feeling through the early ’80s. Founded in 1979 in Lisbon, Portugal, the initial edition of Doce was a quartet made up of vocalists Laura Diogo, Lena Coelho, Fátima Padinha, and Teresa Miguel. Padinha and Miguel previously have been members from the pop quartet Gemini, which displayed Portugal in the 1978 Eurovision Music Competition and released several albums in the past due ’70s. Like Gemini, Doce arranged their sights for the annual Eurovision Music Contest. For 3 years inside a row, they competed in the Event RTP da Canção, the champion which represents Portugal in the Eurovision Music Competition. In 1980 Doce completed in second place in the event with their music “Doce.” The next yr they performed the music “Ali-Bábá” and completed in 4th place before finally completing in first place in the event in 1982 using the music “Bem Bom.” They proceeded to contend at that year’s Eurovision Music Competition, where they completed in 13th place. In the meantime, between your years 1980 and 1984, Doce released the albums Alright, KO (1980) and É Demais (1981) on Polygram, plus several singles. The group dissolved in the middle-’80s, resulting in the discharge of greatest-hits compilations such as for example Doce 1979-1987 (1986) and Docemania (2003). The second option compilation proved specifically popular, achieving the Top Ten from the Portuguese albums graph and triggering a influx of Doce nostalgia. In light from the renewed desire for Doce, Common Music released the recording Docemania (2006). Never to become confused using the 2003 compilation from the same name, Docemania is usually a children’s music recording made up of re-recorded variations of Doce’s best hits. It had been a high Five strike, as was the follow-up recording, 2+2 (2008).