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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 ...
Madredeus (Portuguese pronunciation: [maðɾɨˈðewʃ]) are a Portuguese musical ensemble formed in 1985, in Lisbon. Their music combines traditional Portuguese music, fado and folk music . Madredeus are one of the most successful music groups from Portugal, having sold over 3 million albums worldwide.
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The music features strong drum rhythms and call-and-response guitar or viola playing. [2] The chula, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, takes the form of a challenge, in which only men are allowed to contest. A four-foot wooden stick, commonly called spear, is placed on the floor.
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The International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA) are held at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC). From the first edition in 2013 until 2019, the event was held at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic IPMA was held virtually from 2020 to 2021.
Significant comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s include: A Canção de Lisboa (1933) directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, starring Vasco Santana and Beatriz Costa, the second Portuguese sound feature film (the first was A Severa, a 1931 documentary by Manoel de Oliveira, was originally filmed without soundtrack, which was added afterwards), and ...
The Rough Guide to the Music of Portugal is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, [ 1 ] the album spotlights the music of Portugal , focusing on acoustic fado from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. [ 2 ]