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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 …

Sonia Tavares, Miguel Ribeiro, and brothers Nuno and John Goncalves comprise the eclectic noises of the Present. The Present were merely teens when they shaped in 1994 in a little village beyond Lisbon, Portugal. Collectively, the four-piece spent another five years composing an elegant mix of traditional, jazz, electronica, and …

Portuguese fado group Deolinda is known as after the primary personality in the group’s debut concept album, Canção ao Lado (“The Track NEARBY”, a shut-in surviving in a Lisbon apartment who watches the world through her windows. The songs had been compiled by guitarist Pedro da Silva Martins, who became …