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Category: Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles: Duarte

Angel Romero November 27, 2018 No Comments DuartefadoPortugalPortuguese music

Duarte is a psychologist and Fado singer born in 1980 in the town of Arraiolos, district of Evora, Portugal. From the age of 7 until…

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Artist Profiles: Ana Lains

Angel Romero November 27, 2018 No Comments Ana LainsfadoPortugalPortuguese music

Born in 1979 in Tomar, Portugal, Ana Lains began singing from early age and always had eclectic musical tastes, from jazz to bossa nova. In…

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Artist Profiles: Ana Moura

Angel Romero November 27, 2018 2 Comments Ana MourafadoPortugalPortuguese music

Ana Cláudia Moura Pereira, better known as Ana Moura, was born September 17, 1979 in Santarem, the bustling capital of the Ribatejo province in the…

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Artist Profiles: Antonio Chainho

Angel Romero November 27, 2018 No Comments Antonio ChainhoPortugalPortuguese guitarPortuguese music

Antonio Chainho was born in 1938 in Santiago do Cacém, Portugal. He is a Portuguese musician who has been dedicating his career to the Portuguese…

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Artist Profiles: Armenio de Melo

Angel Romero November 27, 2018 No Comments Armenio de MeloPortugalPortuguese guitarPortuguese music

Armenio de Melo was born in Santa Maria de Lamas, Portugal in 1953. He is considered one of the best guitar players of fado, recognized…

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Artist Profiles: Dulce Pontes

Angel Romero November 26, 2018 No Comments Dulce PontesfadoPortugalPortuguese music

She could have been a dancer, had the dance school not thought that, at fourteen years of age, she was too old to start a…

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Artist Profiles: Tania Libertad

Angel Romero November 24, 2018 No Comments bolerosPeruPeruvian musicTania Libertad

Tania Libertad de Souza Zuñiga was born in the small coastal town town of Zana in northern Peru, of a Portuguese father and a Peruvian…

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Artist Profiles: Eva Ayllón

Angel Romero November 24, 2018 No Comments Eva AyllónPeruPeruvian music

One of the most important interpreters of Peruvian music, Eva Ayllón began singing at the age of three, under her grandmother’s tutelage. Within a few…

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Artist Profiles: Przemyslaw Goc

Angel Romero November 24, 2018 No Comments AinuPolandPolish musicPrzemyslaw Goc

Przemyslaw Goc, better known as Ainu, is a leading artist in the domain of ethnic-world music in Poland with an artistic output consisting of CDs,…

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Artist Profiles: Jerzy Bawol

Angel Romero November 24, 2018 No Comments Jerzy BawolKlezmerPolandPolish musicworld fusionworld music

Born in Cracow in 1969, Jerzy Bawol started playing the accordion in elementary school at the age of nine and gave his first concert at…

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