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Assembling single compositions built by different inspirations, Rodrigo Leão built his own method of creating music, somewhere among progressive and experimental electronic soundings. Perhaps one of the most essential composers and performers from the past due ’90s in Portugal, Rodrigo Leão began his profession by dealing with a few of …

Pedro Sorongo, or Pedro da Lua, was a ritmista (sort of percussionist who helps to keep the defeat) who was simply very popular one of the better choro organizations in the ’50s. He participated in lots of albums documented by Jacob perform Bandolim, and in addition documented with Baden Powell, …

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso was an Italian prog rock-band that mixed opera and rock and roll. Popular in the 1970s, they released 14 albums until 1997. Their business lead vocalist, Francesco di Giacomo, passed away in a vehicle accident in 2014.

Meira was the most prominent six-string violonista (classical guitar participant) from the regional (little group) custom. Also an effective composer, he owed his economic balance to his composing skills. Being a teacher, he collaborated in the forming of distinguished music artists like Baden Powell, Maurício Carrilho, and Rafael Rabello. A …

Executing on ancient stringed tools, like the rebab, rebec and rabab, Ustad Massano Tazi offers revitalized the mandala-based, Arabic-Andalusian classical music of Morocco. Joined up with by Mohammed un Moussadir (vocals), Mohammed Diouri (vocals, three-stringed lute), Mustapha Amri (alto, vocals, ud), Ahmed Chiki (vocals, tar), and Haj Mohamed Lahlou (vocals, …

DePedro may be the name of renowned songwriter and guitarist Jairo Zavala’s single project. He’s popular in his indigenous Spain for founding and leading Vacazul and 3000 Hombres, two from the country’s leading rock and roll bands through the 1990s. Zavala was created in Barcelona, the boy of the Peruvian …

Latin musician Luis Represas gained popular with the past due-1996 discharge of Ao Vivo Zero CCB for the Portuguese department of EMI.

If there’s a good example of a Portuguese music group that didn’t quite fulfill its potential, Ornatos Violeta is most definitely one of these. Initially known as Suores dos Reis, Ornatos Violeta produced in 1991. Its lineup was nearly formed from the starting, save for a limited period where in …

Blessed in Italy but raised in Quebec, vocalist and guitarist Marco Calliari have been an associate of Anonymus — a Montreal-based steel music group that formed in 1989 — for 15 years ahead of striking out being a single artist. Although band continues to be an electric outlet for his …

Marie-Mai is a pop/rock and roll singer from Quebec who increased to fame being a finalist on the Canadian reality present, Superstar Académie, before getting into a popular single profession in 2004. Blessed Marie-Mai Bouchard on July 7, 1984, in Varennes, Quebec, she had taken an early curiosity about music …