The Gift is a Portuguese band from Alcobaça, formed in 1994
The lovely song: “The Mother Of My Mother”
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Music from Portugal – Coldfinger
Coldfinger is an English trip hop band formed by singer Margaret Pinto and Miguel Cardona.
Dragonfly
Music from Cape verde – Bau
Rufino Almeida (12, 1962), best known as Bau born in Midelo, Cape Verde. Bau’s father was a stringed-instrument maker in Mindelo, the port of São Vicente island, the most famous in the Archipelago since the success of Cesaria Evora, also a native of this scrap of land that is also the home of many of Cape Verde’s greatest artists and composers.
At the start of the 90s, he recorded his first album with the Mindel Band, including the first pieces he had written himself – “Mindelo” (Lusafrica) – and performed on “Mar Azul”, the album that launched Cesaria Evora in 1991. In 1994, he joined the singer’s orchestra and, two years later, became its musical director, before passing the baton to pianist Nando Andrade in 1999. From the beginning of the 90s, Bau has published 6 solo albums of a sparkling beauty. Here is the song “Filosofia”
Music from Portugal – Uxu Kalhus
The group of traditional music-folk-rock “Uxu Kalhus” makes of the portuguese music and traditional dances the base of their project.
The song “Extravagante”
Music from Portugal – Mathilde Larguihno
Don’t know more about this great Fado song, but maybe Marília does ;) . Listen to “O Xaile de minha Mãe”, really a delicious song:
Music from Portugal – António Mourão
António Mourão, born in 1936, is a portuguese fado musician. Listen to his nice piece “A Noite”:
Music from Portugal – Samuel Úria
The portuguese language is so damn beautiful, thanks Marí!! Samuel Úria, born in 1979, is a portuguese musician. Listen to his nice piece “Eu Seguro”:
Music from Portugal – Best Youth
Ed Rocha Gonçalves and Catarina Salinas are the “Best Youth”. Their famous song, here, in Portugal: Hang Out
Music of Cape Verde – Jorge Neto
Jorge Neto (born 1964) in São Tomé and Príncipe, to a São Tomean father and Cape Verdean mother from Ponta do Sol, on the island of Santo Antão. Jorge Neto, whose voice graces Cape Verdean pop hits such as “Rosinha” and “Sem ninguém,” marked modern Cape Verdean pop music both as the leader of Netherlands-based group Livity in the early 1990s and in his subsequent solo career. He is a constant presence at various festivals held throughout the year in Cape Verde and in Cape Verdean communities abroad. He suffered a stroke (see here) in November while on an airplane from the United States to Portugal. Here is the song “Sem Ninguém”
Music from Portugal/Canada/UK – Nelly Furtado & James Morrison
Nelly Furtado, born in 1978, is a portuguese-canadian singer. James Morrison, born in 1984, is a british singer and musician. They are best known for their successfull single “Broken Strings”:
