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A Portuguesa" (pronounced [ɐ puɾtuˈɣezɐ]; lit. ' The Portuguese ' ) is the national anthem of Portugal . It was composed by Alfredo Keil and written by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça during the resurgent nationalist movement ignited by the 1890 British Ultimatum to Portugal concerning its African colonies.
Portugal has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea, across Europe and former colonies. In the two centuries before the Christian era, Ancient Rome brought with it Greek influences; early Christians, who had their differing versions of church music arrived during the height of the Roman Empire; the Visigoths, a Romanized Germanic people, who ...
Cátia Mazari Oliveira is from Setúbal, where she was born on 29 October 1983. [3] She grew up in Bairro 2 de Abril, a social housing district in the city, from where she left at the age of 25. [4]
Cante Alentejano is a Portuguese music genre based on vocal music without instrumentation from the Alentejo region. It was inscribed in 2014 in UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, [1] one of two Portuguese music traditions, the other being Fado. [2]
The music video was directed by André Caniços, with the help of Pedro da Linha, who produced and wrote the music, and Pedro Mafama, who wrote the lyrics with Moura and helped her coming up with the concept. [8] She wanted this video to reflect her life story, as her family lived in that neighborhood when they returned from Angola. [8]
Mariana Brito da Cruz Forjaz Secca (born 30 October 1994), known professionally as MARO (stylised in all caps), is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. She won Festival da Canção 2022 and represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin , Italy with the song " Saudade, saudade ".
Tonicha (born Antónia de Jesus Montes Tonicha on 8 March 1946) is a Portuguese pop-folk singer. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, with the song "Menina do alto da serra" ("Girl from the country mountain"); [1] she finished ninth in a field of 18, with 83 points. [2]
Marco Paulo, the forerunner of pimba music. Emanuel, an icon of the pimba music scene.. Pimba [1] is an umbrella term for Portuguese types or genres of music with an uptempo style and/or folk song features, corny romantic or saucy and vulgar lyrics, which was often associated with poorly educated public from rural areas and suburban poor or working-class neighbourhoods, as well as with ...