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Because of their sophisticated flavor and pop sensibility, Clã (meaning “clan”) became a 90’s and 00’s Portuguese pop mainstay. In 1992 music artists Helder Goncalves (piccolo bass), Manuela Azevedo (vocals), Miguel Ferreira (keyboards), Pedro Biscaia (keyboards), Pedro Rito (bass) and Fernando Goncalves (drums) arrived together to developing Clã. Four years …

The Portuguese guitar is a 12-string instrument with twice courses (string pairs) and a little body, similar in tone towards the mandolin or Greek bouzouki. Its penetrating sound is certainly championed by Carlos Paredes, a delicate, even timid performer who amounts custom and spontaneous invention. His first strategy was likened …

By legal rights, Cristina Branco shouldn’t sing the metropolitan Portuguese tune form called fado. The genre, whose name means ‘destiny,’ provides its background in Lisbon, a enigmatic, poetic, working-class design about agreeing to the lot lifestyle and love provides dealt. But Branco, who was raised in rural Almeirim, Portugal, has …

Jose Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, often called Jose Afonso or Zeca Afonso, was created on Feb 23, 1929, in Aveiro, Portugal. Being a judge, his dad was appointed to several posts through the entire Portuguese colonies within the initial fifty percent of the 20th hundred years. Jose spent his …

Widely thought to be the “Father of Portuguese Rock,” singer/songwriter Rui Veloso was created in Lisbon and moved along with his family to Porto quickly thereafter. Veloso demonstrated amazing musical guarantee from his early years as a child, proficient on harmonica by age six, switching to electric guitar at 15. …