Formed in the early 1960s, Las Maravillas de Mali became an iconic ensemble of the Afro-Cuban musical tradition, singing in Spanish, Bambara and French. In…
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Artist Profiles: ALMMA
ALMMA stood for A Free Association of Madeiran Musicians. In 1996, eleven Madeiran musicians coming from diverse musical backgrounds gathered together in a small village,…
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Creating a distinctly modern Portuguese sound, Madredeus became one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Portuguese bands in Europe. This Lisbon-based sextet’s music…
View More Artist Profiles: MadredeusArtist Profiles: Mónica Giraldo
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Mónica Giraldo was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She studied music at Universidad de los Andes in her hometown and later studied further…
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Mafalda Arnauth, born in Lisbon in October of 1974, was one of the great new sensations in fado in the late 1990s. She started her…
View More Artist Profiles: Mafalda ArnauthArtist Profiles: Misia
Mísia was born in the city of Oporto, where she lived until the end of her adolescence. The daughter of a family with great sociocultural…
View More Artist Profiles: MisiaArtist Profiles: Moçoilas
In Portuguese countryside, “Moçoila” is a common word to designate a young and attractive girl. And these can surely catch their audiences: powerful singing and…
View More Artist Profiles: MoçoilasArtist Profiles: Modas à Margem do Tempo
The group’s purpose is to combine traditional Cante Alentejano (folk music from the Alentejo region of Portugal) with elements from other musical traditions, such as…
View More Artist Profiles: Modas à Margem do TempoArtist Profiles: Pedro Jóia
At the age of seven Pedro Jóia began his classical guitar studies with professor Paulo Valente Pereira at the cademia dos Amadores de Música de…
View More Artist Profiles: Pedro JóiaArtist Profiles: Realejo
Created in 1990, Realejo appeared as a natural consequence of an all effort of investigation and recovery of specific traditional Portuguese musical instruments made by…
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