António Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon as the eldest of six sons of
João Alfredo de Figueiredo Lobo Antunes (born 1915), prominent
Neurologist and Professor.
Hélder Moutinho is one of the few male singers in Portugal’s Fado
tradition, beloved by artists and audiences alike and known for his
warm, powerful voice and depth of emotion.
Born in Riachos, at the council of Torres Novas, she began her career in
the end of 1994, after being a solo singer in the folklore group “Os
Camponeses”.
Pedro Moutinho starts singing very naturally at 8 years old, and the
joins the Coro de Santo Amaro de Oeiras and the Ministars, with which he
remains until age 13.
Maria Ana Bobone was born 1974 in Oporto. She began piano studies at age
7, and at age 12 entered the National Conservatory, where she
graduated in piano and singing.
Raquel Tavares (born January 11, 1985) is a singer of Fado. She was born
in Lisbon. She had a normal route on her education, but finally decided
she could not leave music behind.
Maria Argentina Pinto dos Santos, since 1950 at the head of her typical
restaurant “Parreirinha de Alfama”, was born in Lisbon, at the quarter
of Mouraria.
Ana was born in Santarém, the bustling capital of the Ribatejo. Like
young people everywhere, she soon developed an appreciation for other
styles of music.
Camané is the leading male singer in the new generation of stylists in
Portugal's native urban song, Fado, ever since his first album came out
in 1995.
Ricardo Parreira began his studies in
Portuguese Guitar with 7 years old by his father’s hand, one of the
most esteemed guitar players on Fado’s national panorama, António
Parreira.
At the age of seven he built his first musical instrument from which
came his first sounds and at thirteen he was given his first "real"
instrument, an acoustic guitar.
Fernando Alvim was born in Cascais on November 6, 1934. At a very early
age he begins learning to play the guitar and his first fados with Pedro
Araújo.
There are many artistic personalities that left their mark in Portuguese
music history. Artists, who by talent, charisma and popularity marked
José’s era
Cidália, possibly unaware of the theatrical effect her voice has,
doesn’t wear fantasies. She tries to create a story: the story of fado
that refuses to be unhappy at all costs
Like most fado singers of her generation, she began to sing in the
theatre in 1966, with special reference to songs like “Fado para esta
noite” and “João Português”.
Rodrigo started singing Fado at the age of 17. He wasn’t one of those
singers whose stile was imposed from the outside, rather he let it grow
from within.
He was born in a family with great economic difficulties, so he quit
school at 12 years old and started working at UTIC—an auto parts
company—to help out his family.
Alain Oulman was born in Lisbon, on May, 1928. Soon
he was fond of books and music and at this time it has started a golden
decade to musical composition.
At the age of four years old she sang the Portuguese national anthem at
her home in Montijo, a small town located in front of Lisbon on the
other side of the river Tejo.
Marco rodrigues was born at the north of Portugal – Amarante. During his
childhood and teen years he played as lead vocal in a band performing
several musical styles.
Ana Sofía Varela was born in Lisbon, although she grew up in the
countryside (Serpa, Alentejo), where she lived until a few years ago,
when she returned to the capital.
Ana Laíns sings for the first time in public at the age of 6, the artist
born in Tomar soon discovers her innate talent for music and at the age
of 15 sings her first fado.
Partners in "Clube de Fado", Joana Amendoeira always considered Fontes Rocha like a teacher, a mentor, a friend and above all a musical accomplice. ...
Zambujo is a fado singer from Portugal who has won the style’s major awards, including the Amália Rodrigues Foundation prize as best male fado singer. ...
Music has the power to take us to faraway places. Most of those places are only in our heads. But for me, the music of one singer had the power to take me all the way to the capital of...
There’s a theory that says the Portugese Guitar appears in Europe as the instrument that accompaned a Congolese dance called "Lundum". Meanwhile it was imported to Brazil an then influenced the portugese courtship. ...
