Sara Tavares was only 16 years old, when she won two of Portugal’s most prestigious TV music contests. Born out of a second generation Cape…
Artist Profiles: Sara Tavares
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Artist Profiles: Terrakota
Terrakota is a Portuguese world fusion band that generates “organic music” rooted in sub-Saharan Africa, that absorbs sounds from the Sahara, the Caribbean, the West…
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,…
Artist Profiles: Madredeus
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…
Artist Profiles: Mafalda Arnauth
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…
Artist Profiles: Misia
Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar, better known as Mísia, was born on June 18, 1955. Her father was Portuguese and her mother was a Spanish…
Artist 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…
Artist 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…
Artist 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…
Artist 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…