Portuguese music includes many different styles and genres, as a result of its history. These can be broadly divided into classical music, traditional/folk music and popular music and all of them have produced internationally successful acts, with the country seeing a recent expansion in musical styles, especially in popular music.
Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music (MPB) and jazz for over thirty years. His first hit, "Madalena", was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. "Love Dance", a hit in 1989, is one of the most recorded songs in musical history.
Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira, GCIH, ComL, or just Adriano was a Portuguese musician, born to a conservative Roman Catholic family in Porto. His family moved to Avintes after his birth. He went to Coimbra to study at the University of Coimbra, and eventually dropped out, albeit being involved in the student activism and Coimbra fado music.
Maria Adelaide Mengas Matafome Ferreira is a Portuguese singer.
Mísia is a Portuguese fado singer. Mísia is a polyglot. Despite singing mostly fado, she has sung some of her songs in Spanish, French, Catalan, English, and even Japanese.
Sérgio de Barros GodinhoOL is a Portuguese singer-songwriter, composer, actor, poet and author.
Humanos is a musical band from Portugal formed in 2004. The idea behind it was to bring to light some unreleased songs by an iconic Portuguese artist, a singer-songwriter from the 1980s, António Variações.
"I Can't Unlove You" is a song recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in December 2005 as the first single from his album Water & Bridges. The song was written by Wade Kirby and Will Robinson. In Brazil, the song had a version titled "Eu Não Sei Dizer Que Eu Não Te Amo", performed by the duo Edson & Hudson in Portuguese and by Kenny Rogers in English.
David Fonseca is a Portuguese musician, singer-songwriter and photographer. As a musician, he plays several instruments, including acoustic guitar and organ. He is recognized for his successful music career as a member of Silence 4 and, since 2003, as a solo artist. He is also responsible for the graphic design on his album covers and the art direction on his videoclips. Between 2004 and 2006, he was also part of the Humanos tribute project.
Silence 4 were a Portuguese band, formed in 1996, who mostly sung in English. They released two albums to high critical acclaim, Silence Becomes It (1998) and Only Pain Is Real (2000). The band never officially disbanded, but went on an undetermined hiatus from 2001 to 2013, when their members decided to reunite for a brief tour after Sofia Lisboa underwent cancer treatment. Lead singer David Fonseca is currently undertaking a solo career.
The Pergaminho Sharrer is a mediaeval parchment fragment containing seven songs by King Denis of Portugal, with lyrics in the Galician-Portuguese language and musical notation.
Only Pain is Real is the second and final studio album by the Portuguese band Silence 4. It was released in July 2000, after the huge success of its predecessor, Silence Becomes It. Recorded in London, the album presented new sounds and fuller orchestrations, with 14 songs all written in English. Even not equaling their first album, it went to become another massive success for the band, achieving two platinum albums and selling 100 000 units.
Filipe Miranda Cunha Pinto known as Filipe Pinto is a Portuguese singer that won season 3 of the Portuguese reality television music competition series Ídolos in 2010. He won the 2013 MTV Europe Music Award for the Best Portuguese Act.
The 2012 Golden Globes (Portugal) was held on 20 May 2012 and broadcast by SIC and presented by Bárbara Guimarães.
The 2012 Prémio Autores was the third edition of the Prémio Autores. It took place on 27 February 2012 and was broadcast by RTP.
Xou da Xuxa Seis is the ninth studio album and the seventh in Portuguese by Brazilian singer and TV host Xuxa Meneghel, released on September 12, 1991 by Som Livre. This album was the sixth album in the "Xou da Xuxa" collection, which totals seven. In this album are included songs like "O Xou da Xuxa Começou", "Novo Planeta" and "Hoje é Dia de Folia". The album sold more than 1 million copies.
Sexto Sentido is the fourteenth studio album and the tenth in Portuguese by Brazilian pop singer Xuxa. Was released on August 20, 1994 by the record company Som Livre.
Tô de Bem com a Vida is the seventeenth studio album and the twelfth in Portuguese by Brazilian pop singer Xuxa Meneghel. It was released by Som Livre on October 5, 1996.
The 2022 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 28 May 2022. If no candidate achieved more than 50% of the votes in the first round, a second round would be held between the two most voted candidates in the first round on 4 June 2022, however, as only two candidates were on the ballot, Luís Montenegro and Jorge Moreira da Silva, a second round was not necessary.
