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Music of Portugal

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.

In traditional/folk music, fado had a significant impact, with Amália Rodrigues still the most recognizable Portuguese name in music, and with more recent acts, like Dulce Pontes and Mariza. The genre is one of two Portuguese music traditions in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, with the other being Cante Alentejano. Regional folk music remains popular too, having been updated and modernized in many cases, especially in the northeastern region of Trás-os-Montes. Some more recent successful fado/folk-inspired acts include Madredeus and Deolinda, the latter being part of a folk revival that has led to a newfound interest in this type of music.

Lisbon-based Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral winner of Eurovision 2017

In popular music, there is a significant number of popular genres. These include rock, with popular acts including Xutos & Pontapés, The Gift (alternative rock), Fingertips (pop rock), Blasted Mechanism (experimental electro-rock), Noctivagus (gothic rock) and Wraygunn (rock, blues). Also hip-hop, with acts such as Boss AC, Da Weasel, Ithaka, Mind Da Gap and Sam the Kid. Acts such as Moonspell and Heavenwood (metal) and Buraka Som Sistema (electro/kuduro/breakbeat) have had significant international success. Other popular modern genres in Portugal include dance, house, kizomba, pimba, pop, reggae, ska and zouk.[1]

History edit

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 took control of the Iberian Peninsula following the fall of the Roman Empire; the Moors and Jews in the Middle Ages. Hence, there have been more than two thousand years of internal and external influences and developments. Its genres range from classical to popular music. Portugal's music history includes musical history from the medieval Gregorian chants through Carlos Seixas' symphonies era to the composers of the modern era. The musical history of Portugal can be divided in different ways. Portuguese music encompasses musical production of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras, especially from Angola with Kizomba. Portugal has very good dancing clothes making Portuguese dancing famous.

Classical music edit

Portuguese music gets its rich history from its privileged geographical location. These are evidenced in the music history of Portugal, which despite its firm European roots, nevertheless reflects the intercontinental cultural interactions begun in the Portuguese discoveries.

A short list of past and present Portuguese musicians with important contributions must necessarily include the names of composers Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, Filipe de Magalhães, Carlos Seixas, Pedro de Escobar, Diogo Dias Melgás, João Domingos Bomtempo, Marcos Portugal, José Vianna da Motta, Luís de Freitas Branco, António Fragoso, Joly Braga Santos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, and Emmanuel Nunes; organists such as António Carreira and Manuel Rodrigues Coelho; singers Luísa Todi, Elisabete Matos and José Carlos Xavier; pianists Maria João Pires and Sequeira Costa; violinists Elmar Oliveira and Carlos Damas; and cellists such as Guilhermina Suggia.

Traditional music edit

Fado edit

 
Amália Rodrigues, the Portuguese singer known as Queen of Fado

Fado is a musical style, which arose in Lisbon as the music of the urban poor. Fado songs are typically lyrically harsh, accompanied by a wire-strung acoustic guitar or the Portuguese Guitar. It is usually sung by solo performers, with the singer resigned to sadness, poverty, and loneliness, but remaining dignified and firmly controlled. It is claimed that fado's origins are older, going back to the 15th century, when women cried with longing for their husbands that sailed to the never-ending seas.

 
Fado group Verdes Anos (Coimbra Fado)

Late in the 19th century, the city of Coimbra developed a distinctive scene. Coimbra, a literary capital for the country, is now known for being more refined and majestic. The sound has been described as "the song of those who retain and cherish their illusions, not of those who have irretrievably lost them" by Rodney Gallop in 1936. A related form is the guitarradas of the 1920s and 30s, best known for Dr. Antonio Menano and a group of virtuoso musicians he formed, including Artur Paredes and José Joaquim Cavalheiro. Student fado, performed by students at Coimbra University, has maintained a tradition since it was pioneered in the 1890s by Augusto Hilário.

Starting in 1939 with the career of Amália Rodrigues, fado was an internationally popular genre. A singer and film actress, Rodrigues made numerous stylistic innovations that have made her probably the most influential fadista of all time.

A new generation of young musicians have contributed to the social and political revival of fado music, adapting and blending it with new trends. Contemporary fado musicians like Carminho, Mariza, Mísia and Camané have introduced the music to a new public. The sensuality of Misia and other female fadistas (fado singers) like Maria Ana Bobone, Cuca Roseta, Cristina Branco, Ana Moura, Katia Guerreiro, and Mariza has walked the fine line between carrying on the tradition of Amália Rodrigues and trying to bring in a new audience. Mísia and Carlos do Carmo are also well-known fado singers.Ricardo Ribeiro and Miguel Capucho are one of the best male fado singers of the new generation.

It was included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2011.[2]

Regional folk music edit

 
Transmontana Bagpipe
 
The Portuguese musical instrument Cavaquinho used in traditional music

Recent events have helped keep Portuguese regional folk (rancho folclórico) traditions alive, most especially including the worldwide roots revival of the 1960s and 70s.

Cante Alentejano, from the Alentejo region, was included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2014.[3]

The people of the Azores islands maintain some distinct musical traditions, such as the traditionally fiddle-driven chamarrita dance.

Music in Madeira is widespread and mainly uses local musical instruments such as the Machete, rajao, Brinquinho and Cavaquinho, which are used in traditional Folklore dances like the Bailinho da Madeira. One of the island's most celebrated folklorists was Maria Ascensão (1926–2001).[4] Famous performers of contemporary music include Max, Luís Jardim and Vânia Fernandes.

Trás-os-Montes' musical heritage is closely related to the music of Galicia, Cantabria, and Asturias. Traditional bagpipes (gaita-de-fole transmontana), a cappella vocals and a unique musical scale with equal semitones have kept alive a vital tradition. (Miranda de I Douro), some artists such as Galamdum Galundaina sing in Mirandese language. Also, the Pauliteiros folk dance is popular. Some residents sing in both Portuguese and Mirandese.

 
A group of Cante Alentejano

Folk/traditional music acts include: Dazkarieh, Cornalusa, Gaitúlia, Strella do Dia, Fausto, Notas e Voltas, Roberto Leal, Ronda dos Quatro Caminhos, Terra a Terra, Tonicha, Cândida Branca Flor, Óióai, Janita Salomé, Uxukalhus, Frei Fado D'el Rei, Gaiteiros de Lisboa, Roncos do Diabo, Dâna, Luís Peixoto, Dulce Pontes, Sangre Cavallum, Teresa Salgueiro, Vitorino and Xaile.

Pop music edit

Famous artists and bands included in the past are José Afonso, Fausto Bordalo Dias, José Mário Branco, Manuel Freire, Cândida Branca Flor, Tonicha, Paco Bandeira, Clã, Paulo de Carvalho, José Cid, Linda de Suza, Madalena Iglésias, António Variações, Duo Ouro Negro, Roberto Leal (singer), Peste & Sida and Ornatos Violeta. Nowadays some of the most popular acts are Virgem Suta, HMB, Aurea, Amor Electro, GNR, Xutos & Pontapés, The Gift, David Fonseca, Diogo Piçarra, Os Quatro e Meia and Capitão Fausto. Portugal has been participating in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1964; its best result before 2017 was the 6th place achieved by Lucia Moniz's folk inspired song "O meu coração não tem cor" in 1996, penned by Pedro Vaz Osorio. Portugal gained no further Top 10 place until Salvador Sobral's first place in the 2017 contest with the song Amar Pelos Dois, which gained a record 758 points.

Folk-pop edit

In 2019, contemporary folk singer-songwriter Ana Mariano from Aveiro was featured on the compilation Novos Talentos FNAC 2019 (New Talents of Fnac 2019) with her Folk-pop debut single "Ordinary View", (written and performed in the English language.)[5] In February 2020, she released her debut e.p. Everything I Touch which included the songs, "Insomnia" and "Plastic Wings" (featuring Ithaka), among others.[6][7]

Electronic music edit

 
Underground Sound of Lisbon in 1994
 
Buraka Som Sistema

In electronica, Underground Sound of Lisbon with their 1994 progressive house remix of the 1992 Spoken word song So Get Up by Ithaka Darin Pappas (lyrics/vocals), was a musical project that brought international attention to Portuguese DJs, namely Rui da Silva (the only Portuguese musician to reach #1 on the UK charts), DJ Vibe and Pete tha Zouk.[8]

Some other important names in the genre are Buraka Som Sistema, Branko, Conan Osiris, Micro Audio Waves and KURA, with this last one being the highest-ranked Portuguese of all time on the annual's Top 100 Dj's by Dj Mag. In Porto, the hometown of numerous talents such as Nuno Forte, Drum n' Bass styles are immensely popular, and the city has hosted various important international names in the genre such as Noisia, The Panacea and Black Sun Empire. Also, in the Psychedelic Trance genre there is a worldwide famous project: Paranormal Attack.

In February 2020, internationally recognized DJ-producer-musician, Armando Mendes, from northern Portugal released Parallel Universe on cd and a double-vinyl 12" set for Turquoise Records (one of the only full-length albums by any Portuguese electronic artist), collaborating with several worldwide vocalists/lyricists.[9][10]

Experimental and avantgarde edit

Portuguese music has a striving experimental underground music scene since the '80s, with some exponents attaining international attention. Notable groups and musicians in this genre are Osso Exótico, Ocaso Épico, Telectu, Carlos Zíngaro, Pedro INF, Favela Discos, If Lucy Fell and Life Theory.

Heavy metal edit

 
Moonspell live in Kraków, Poland in 2007

The biggest exponent of heavy metal music in Portugal are the bands Moonspell, Ava Inferi, Ramp, Heavenwood, Corpus Christii, Reaktor, W.C. Noise, Tarantula and Attick Demons, which have achieved international recognition, and have signed record deals with some of the most important international Heavy Metal Labels such as Century Media and Napalm Records for Moonspell, Massacre Records and Listenable Records for Heavenwood, Season of Mist for Ava Inferi, Pure Steel Records for Attick Demons, Candlelight Records for Corpus Christii, Nuclear Blast Records for Reaktor and AFM Records for Tarantula.

Heavy metal made by Portuguese bands is sold in all major records / music shops in all European countries such as Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Poland and Turkey. Moonspell, Heavenwood and Attick Demons achieved markets such as East Europe / Russia, Asia, North, and South America, furthermore Attick Demons achieved recognition in Japan by being the only Portuguese heavy metal band to have a Japanese release to date, through a Japanese label.[citation needed]

Others bands like Miss Lava, Holocausto Canibal, Thirdsphere, Sirius, Sacred Sin, Factory of Dreams, Decayed, Filli Nigratium Infernallium, Morte Incandescente, Gwydion, Switchtense, Grog, Bizarra Locomotiva, Thee Orakle, More Than a Thousand and Oratory also achieved some international recognition.

Hip hop edit

 
General D, The Godfather of Portuguese hip hop, in Lisbon 1993 (photo by Ithaka)

Hip hop began in Portugal in the early 1990s. The first artist to sign a major record deal was General D with EMI Records. Other important artists from the Hip hop tuga genre include; Sam the Kid, Slow J, Papillon, Da Weasel, Dealema, Valete, Regula, Boss AC, Mind the Gap, Bob Da Rage Sense, Dillaz.

Jazz edit

People such as Mário Barreiros, Mário Laginha, Carlos Barretto, Carlos Bica, João Paulo Esteves da Silva, António Pinho Vargas and the singer Maria João have long and noteworthy careers in the field, despite experimenting, sometimes with notable success, other genres of music, and a more recent generation is following their footsteps, notable the pianist Bernardo Sassetti, Júlio Resende, Carlos Bica, João Paulo, and the singers Salvador Sobral, João Barradas, Jacinta, Vânia Fernandes and Luísa Sobral.

Latin edit

Although it is an Iberian country, Portugal never had clear influences from Latin America, though Portuguese musical traditions have had an influence on Latin American music, particularly in Brazil and through instruments such as the cavaquinho and its descendent instruments like the cuatro. Nonetheless, the Latin music industry sometimes includes music sung in Portuguese from Portugal.[11][12] This style came to the country in the 1990s, following a Spanish and world trend. Examples of Latin music singers in Portuguese are Ana Malhoa and Mil i Maria. The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the organization responsible for the Latin Grammy Awards, encompasses music from Portugal and has voting members who live in the country.[13][14] Carlos do Carmo became the first Portuguese artist to win a Latin Grammy award upon receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award.[15]

Pimba edit

Pimba music is the Portuguese version of the euro Schlager or the Balkan Turbo-Folk. It is named after the 1995 hit Pimba Pimba, by Emanuel.[16] Some of its biggest names are Emanuel, Ágata, Suzana, Micaela, Ruth Marlene and Quim Barreiros. This genre mixes traditional sounds with accordion, Latin beats and funny or religious (mainly kitch) lyrics.

Folk and political (Música de Intervenção) edit

 
Sculpture of José Afonso in Grândola

During the Estado Novo authoritarian regime, music was widely used by the left-wing resistance as a way to say what could not be said, singing about freedom, equality, and democracy, mainly through metaphors and symbols. Many composers and singers became famous and persecuted by the political police, some of them being arrested or exiled, such as José Afonso, Paulo de Carvalho, José Mário Branco, Sérgio Godinho, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Manuel Freire, Pedro Barroso, Fausto, Vitorino, Júlio Pereira and some others. Their music was (and remains) mostly based on Portuguese folk music and elements of European-style singer-songwriter genres.

José Afonso began performing in the 1950s; he was a popular roots-based musician that led the Portuguese roots revival. With artists like Sérgio Godinho and Luís Cília, Afonso helped form nova canção music, which, after the 1974 revolution, gained socially-aware lyrics and became canto livre. The biggest names in canto livre were Banda do Casaco and Brigada Víctor Jara, groups that seriously studied and were influenced by Portuguese regional music. The poet-singer-songwriter was also a significant contributor to the modern romance genre, can be compared to Leonard Cohen.

After the Carnation Revolution, that same music was used to support left-wing parties. Political ideas and causes, like the agrarian reform, socialism, equality, democratic elections, free education and many other were a constant presence in these songs lyrics, often written by well-known poets like José Barata-Moura, Manuel Alegre or Ary dos Santos.

Reggae and ska edit

More underground but very prominent are Portuguese reggae and ska. Unregarding some 2 Tone and reggae-influenced singles in the late 70s by bands like Roquivários or early 80s mod outfit Táxi, it was only in the early 1990s when the first Portuguese roots reggae band, Kussondulola reached the mainstream public.

Best known Portuguese reggae singers include Richie Campbell, Mercado Negro, Prince Wadada and Freddy Locks, while some of the more famous bands of these types include Terrakota, Primitive Reason, Sativa, One Sun Tribe, One Love Family, Arsha, Three and a Quarter, Purocracy, Chapa Dux and Souls of Fire. This music is popular among young people, with its main roots based in Lisbon and the surrounding areas.

Earlier ska bands in Portugal included Despe&Siga and Contratempos, while The Ratazanas can be considered the best known Portuguese Early reggae and Rocksteady band. They recorded for German label Grover Records and toured throughout Europe on their own right as well as backing Jamaican singers like Susan Cadogan. Skarmiento, Skalibans, and Skamioneta do Lixo are other Portuguese ska bands.

Rock edit

 
Xutos & Pontapés

Portuguese rock was born in the 1980s, with acts like Rui Veloso and Jorge Palma. Examples of popular Portuguese rock bands, having a long history, are Xutos & Pontapés and UHF who have been playing for over 30 years and are known widely throughout Portugal, as well as Mão Morta, a unique and controversial Portuguese band with decades-long activity. Well known solo singers include Rui Veloso, Jorge Palma, and Pedro Abrunhosa. Clã (pop rock), Grupo Novo Rock (pop rock and rock), Fingertips, (pop rock), Blasted Mechanism (electro-rock and dub/reggae fusion), Suspiria Franklyn (punk-rock/new wave), Linda Martini (post/noise rock), peixe : aviao (post-rock), Ornatos Violeta (indie rock), A Book in the Shelf (grunge rock), Dream Circus (grunge rock), Decreto 77, (punk rock), or Mazgani (alternative), are other important acts.[citation needed]

The indie and alternative rock movements are also popular in Portugal. Some indie and alternative bands and artists from Portugal are Os Pontos Negros, Memória de Peixe, Linda Martini, The Glockenwise, Capitão Fausto, Frankie Chavez, Stereoboy, Quelle Dead Gazelle, B Fachada, Noiserv, Golden Slumbers (band) as well as the Luso-Brazilian group Banda do Mar.

Romantic edit

The highest exponents of this kind of music in Portugal are Tony Carreira and Marco Paulo (both, and even other performers, have a certain level of overlap with the Pimba genre, even partial or just in certain songs).

Singers of Portuguese descent edit

There are several popular musicians of Portuguese descent. Luso-francofonic artists include Linda de Suza (Portuguese born and later an immigrant in France) and Marie Myriam, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977. Nelly Furtado reflected some of her Portuguese origins, especially in lesser-known songs in her first albums (songs like "Scared" sung by Furtado in English and Portuguese, "Nas Horas do Dia" and "Força"). Portugal-born Nuno Bettencourt's heritage is also reflected in the title of Extreme's 2008 album Saudades de Rock. Steve Perry, former lead singer of rock group Journey is American of Portuguese ancestry, as is Aerosmith's Joe Perry (both their original paternal family names being Pereira). The lead singer from Jamiroquai, Jay Kay has Portuguese descent through his father. Ana da Silva, a founding member of the cult post-punk band The Raincoats is also of Portuguese origin. Also Mia Rose, which has collaborations with Portuguese artists and even songs in the Portuguese language, was a juror at The Voice Portugal. Others include Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Mishlawi and DEV and Carlos Melo.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Tejo Beat (1998, CD)". Discogs.
  2. ^ "Fado, urban popular song of Portugal". unesco.org. UNESCO. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Cante Alentejano, polyphonic singing from Alentejo, southern Portugal". unesco.org. UNESCO. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  4. ^ Sardinha, Vitor (15 July 2016). "teixeira, maria ascensão fernandes" (in Portuguese). Agência de Promoção da Cultura Atlântica. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  5. ^ "ANA MARIANO PARTILHA SINGLE DE ESTREIA… "ORDINARY VIEW"". Glam Magazine. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Aveirense Ana Mariano apresenta "Insomnia"". Diário de Aveiro. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Ana Mariano – Everything I Touch (2020, CD)". Discogs.
  8. ^ "It Happened Here... Portuguese dance goes global". Redbull.com. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  9. ^ "ARMANDO MENDES". danielapress.eu. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  10. ^ "ARMANDO MENDES Q&A". magazinesixty.com. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  11. ^ Flores, Juan; Rosaldo, Renato (2009). A Companion to Latina/o Studies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 50. ISBN 9780470766026.
  12. ^ Arenas, Fernando (2011). Lusophone Africa : Beyond Independence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 220. ISBN 9780816669837. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  13. ^ "Billboard Spotlights Spain & Portugal". Billboard. Vol. 111, no. 47. Nielsen N.V. 20 November 1999. p. 91. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  14. ^ Garza, Agustin (18 May 2002). "Latin Grammys Struggle With Loss of Momentum". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  15. ^ "Fado singer Carlos do Carmo receives career Latin Grammy in Vegas". Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  16. ^ Lusa news agency (19 September 2013). "Bruno Nogueira e Manuela Azevedo dizem: "Deixem o pimba em paz"". P3 (Público) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  • Cronshaw, Andrew, and Paul Vernon. "Traditional Riches, Fate and Revolution". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, pp 225–236. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1-85828-636-0

External links edit

  • (in French) Audio clips: Traditional music of Portugal. Musée d'ethnographie de Genève. Accessed 25 November 2010.
  • Portuguese Music Information Centre
  • Fado Music in Alfama Neighborhood of Lisbon
  • Folk and Trad music and dance News, interviews, reviews, photos and music
  • By Gina Modesto in Accessible Portugal Online Magazine
  • Portuguese Composers Database

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Music of Portugal news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message 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 In traditional folk music fado had a significant impact with Amalia Rodrigues still the most recognizable Portuguese name in music and with more recent acts like Dulce Pontes and Mariza The genre is one of two Portuguese music traditions in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists with the other being Cante Alentejano Regional folk music remains popular too having been updated and modernized in many cases especially in the northeastern region of Tras os Montes Some more recent successful fado folk inspired acts include Madredeus and Deolinda the latter being part of a folk revival that has led to a newfound interest in this type of music Lisbon based Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral winner of Eurovision 2017 In popular music there is a significant number of popular genres These include rock with popular acts including Xutos amp Pontapes The Gift alternative rock Fingertips pop rock Blasted Mechanism experimental electro rock Noctivagus gothic rock and Wraygunn rock blues Also hip hop with acts such as Boss AC Da Weasel Ithaka Mind Da Gap and Sam the Kid Acts such as Moonspell and Heavenwood metal and Buraka Som Sistema electro kuduro breakbeat have had significant international success Other popular modern genres in Portugal include dance house kizomba pimba pop reggae ska and zouk 1 Contents 1 History 2 Classical music 3 Traditional music 3 1 Fado 3 2 Regional folk music 4 Pop music 4 1 Folk pop 4 2 Electronic music 4 3 Experimental and avantgarde 4 4 Heavy metal 4 5 Hip hop 4 6 Jazz 4 7 Latin 4 8 Pimba 4 9 Folk and political Musica de Intervencao 4 10 Reggae and ska 4 11 Rock 4 12 Romantic 5 Singers of Portuguese descent 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory editMain article Music history of Portugal 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 took control of the Iberian Peninsula following the fall of the Roman Empire the Moors and Jews in the Middle Ages Hence there have been more than two thousand years of internal and external influences and developments Its genres range from classical to popular music Portugal s music history includes musical history from the medieval Gregorian chants through Carlos Seixas symphonies era to the composers of the modern era The musical history of Portugal can be divided in different ways Portuguese music encompasses musical production of the Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque Classical Romantic and Modern eras especially from Angola with Kizomba Portugal has very good dancing clothes making Portuguese dancing famous Classical music editPortuguese music gets its rich history from its privileged geographical location These are evidenced in the music history of Portugal which despite its firm European roots nevertheless reflects the intercontinental cultural interactions begun in the Portuguese discoveries A short list of past and present Portuguese musicians with important contributions must necessarily include the names of composers Manuel Cardoso Duarte Lobo Filipe de Magalhaes Carlos Seixas Pedro de Escobar Diogo Dias Melgas Joao Domingos Bomtempo Marcos Portugal Jose Vianna da Motta Luis de Freitas Branco Antonio Fragoso Joly Braga Santos Fernando Lopes Graca and Emmanuel Nunes organists such as Antonio Carreira and Manuel Rodrigues Coelho singers Luisa Todi Elisabete Matos and Jose Carlos Xavier pianists Maria Joao Pires and Sequeira Costa violinists Elmar Oliveira and Carlos Damas and cellists such as Guilhermina Suggia Traditional music editFado edit nbsp Amalia Rodrigues the Portuguese singer known as Queen of Fado Main article Fado Fado is a musical style which arose in Lisbon as the music of the urban poor Fado songs are typically lyrically harsh accompanied by a wire strung acoustic guitar or the Portuguese Guitar It is usually sung by solo performers with the singer resigned to sadness poverty and loneliness but remaining dignified and firmly controlled It is claimed that fado s origins are older going back to the 15th century when women cried with longing for their husbands that sailed to the never ending seas nbsp Fado group Verdes Anos Coimbra Fado Late in the 19th century the city of Coimbra developed a distinctive scene Coimbra a literary capital for the country is now known for being more refined and majestic The sound has been described as the song of those who retain and cherish their illusions not of those who have irretrievably lost them by Rodney Gallop in 1936 A related form is the guitarradas of the 1920s and 30s best known for Dr Antonio Menano and a group of virtuoso musicians he formed including Artur Paredes and Jose Joaquim Cavalheiro Student fado performed by students at Coimbra University has maintained a tradition since it was pioneered in the 1890s by Augusto Hilario Starting in 1939 with the career of Amalia Rodrigues fado was an internationally popular genre A singer and film actress Rodrigues made numerous stylistic innovations that have made her probably the most influential fadista of all time A new generation of young musicians have contributed to the social and political revival of fado music adapting and blending it with new trends Contemporary fado musicians like Carminho Mariza Misia and Camane have introduced the music to a new public The sensuality of Misia and other female fadistas fado singers like Maria Ana Bobone Cuca Roseta Cristina Branco Ana Moura Katia Guerreiro and Mariza has walked the fine line between carrying on the tradition of Amalia Rodrigues and trying to bring in a new audience Misia and Carlos do Carmo are also well known fado singers Ricardo Ribeiro and Miguel Capucho are one of the best male fado singers of the new generation It was included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2011 2 Regional folk music edit nbsp Transmontana Bagpipe nbsp The Portuguese musical instrument Cavaquinho used in traditional music Recent events have helped keep Portuguese regional folk rancho folclorico traditions alive most especially including the worldwide roots revival of the 1960s and 70s Cante Alentejano from the Alentejo region was included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2014 3 The people of the Azores islands maintain some distinct musical traditions such as the traditionally fiddle driven chamarrita dance Music in Madeira is widespread and mainly uses local musical instruments such as the Machete rajao Brinquinho and Cavaquinho which are used in traditional Folklore dances like the Bailinho da Madeira One of the island s most celebrated folklorists was Maria Ascensao 1926 2001 4 Famous performers of contemporary music include Max Luis Jardim and Vania Fernandes Tras os Montes musical heritage is closely related to the music of Galicia Cantabria and Asturias Traditional bagpipes gaita de fole transmontana a cappella vocals and a unique musical scale with equal semitones have kept alive a vital tradition Miranda de I Douro some artists such as Galamdum Galundaina sing in Mirandese language Also the Pauliteiros folk dance is popular Some residents sing in both Portuguese and Mirandese nbsp A group of Cante Alentejano Folk traditional music acts include Dazkarieh Cornalusa Gaitulia Strella do Dia Fausto Notas e Voltas Roberto Leal Ronda dos Quatro Caminhos Terra a Terra Tonicha Candida Branca Flor oioai Janita Salome Uxukalhus Frei Fado D el Rei Gaiteiros de Lisboa Roncos do Diabo Dana Luis Peixoto Dulce Pontes Sangre Cavallum Teresa Salgueiro Vitorino and Xaile Pop music editFamous artists and bands included in the past are Jose Afonso Fausto Bordalo Dias Jose Mario Branco Manuel Freire Candida Branca Flor Tonicha Paco Bandeira Cla Paulo de Carvalho Jose Cid Linda de Suza Madalena Iglesias Antonio Variacoes Duo Ouro Negro Roberto Leal singer Peste amp Sida and Ornatos Violeta Nowadays some of the most popular acts are Virgem Suta HMB Aurea Amor Electro GNR Xutos amp Pontapes The Gift David Fonseca Diogo Picarra Os Quatro e Meia and Capitao Fausto Portugal has been participating in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1964 its best result before 2017 was the 6th place achieved by Lucia Moniz s folk inspired song O meu coracao nao tem cor in 1996 penned by Pedro Vaz Osorio Portugal gained no further Top 10 place until Salvador Sobral s first place in the 2017 contest with the song Amar Pelos Dois which gained a record 758 points Folk pop edit In 2019 contemporary folk singer songwriter Ana Mariano from Aveiro was featured on the compilation Novos Talentos FNAC 2019 New Talents of Fnac 2019 with her Folk pop debut single Ordinary View written and performed in the English language 5 In February 2020 she released her debut e p Everything I Touch which included the songs Insomnia and Plastic Wings featuring Ithaka among others 6 7 Electronic music edit nbsp Underground Sound of Lisbon in 1994 nbsp Buraka Som Sistema In electronica Underground Sound of Lisbon with their 1994 progressive house remix of the 1992 Spoken word song So Get Up by Ithaka Darin Pappas lyrics vocals was a musical project that brought international attention to Portuguese DJs namely Rui da Silva the only Portuguese musician to reach 1 on the UK charts DJ Vibe and Pete tha Zouk 8 Some other important names in the genre are Buraka Som Sistema Branko Conan Osiris Micro Audio Waves and KURA with this last one being the highest ranked Portuguese of all time on the annual s Top 100 Dj s by Dj Mag In Porto the hometown of numerous talents such as Nuno Forte Drum n Bass styles are immensely popular and the city has hosted various important international names in the genre such as Noisia The Panacea and Black Sun Empire Also in the Psychedelic Trance genre there is a worldwide famous project Paranormal Attack In February 2020 internationally recognized DJ producer musician Armando Mendes from northern Portugal released Parallel Universe on cd and a double vinyl 12 set for Turquoise Records one of the only full length albums by any Portuguese electronic artist collaborating with several worldwide vocalists lyricists 9 10 Experimental and avantgarde edit Portuguese music has a striving experimental underground music scene since the 80s with some exponents attaining international attention Notable groups and musicians in this genre are Osso Exotico Ocaso Epico Telectu Carlos Zingaro Pedro INF Favela Discos If Lucy Fell and Life Theory Heavy metal edit nbsp Moonspell live in Krakow Poland in 2007 The biggest exponent of heavy metal music in Portugal are the bands Moonspell Ava Inferi Ramp Heavenwood Corpus Christii Reaktor W C Noise Tarantula and Attick Demons which have achieved international recognition and have signed record deals with some of the most important international Heavy Metal Labels such as Century Media and Napalm Records for Moonspell Massacre Records and Listenable Records for Heavenwood Season of Mist for Ava Inferi Pure Steel Records for Attick Demons Candlelight Records for Corpus Christii Nuclear Blast Records for Reaktor and AFM Records for Tarantula Heavy metal made by Portuguese bands is sold in all major records music shops in all European countries such as Finland Germany the Netherlands Italy France Poland and Turkey Moonspell Heavenwood and Attick Demons achieved markets such as East Europe Russia Asia North and South America furthermore Attick Demons achieved recognition in Japan by being the only Portuguese heavy metal band to have a Japanese release to date through a Japanese label citation needed Others bands like Miss Lava Holocausto Canibal Thirdsphere Sirius Sacred Sin Factory of Dreams Decayed Filli Nigratium Infernallium Morte Incandescente Gwydion Switchtense Grog Bizarra Locomotiva Thee Orakle More Than a Thousand and Oratory also achieved some international recognition Hip hop edit nbsp General D The Godfather of Portuguese hip hop in Lisbon 1993 photo by Ithaka Main article Hip hop Tuga Hip hop began in Portugal in the early 1990s The first artist to sign a major record deal was General D with EMI Records Other important artists from the Hip hop tuga genre include Sam the Kid Slow J Papillon Da Weasel Dealema Valete Regula Boss AC Mind the Gap Bob Da Rage Sense Dillaz Jazz edit People such as Mario Barreiros Mario Laginha Carlos Barretto Carlos Bica Joao Paulo Esteves da Silva Antonio Pinho Vargas and the singer Maria Joao have long and noteworthy careers in the field despite experimenting sometimes with notable success other genres of music and a more recent generation is following their footsteps notable the pianist Bernardo Sassetti Julio Resende Carlos Bica Joao Paulo and the singers Salvador Sobral Joao Barradas Jacinta Vania Fernandes and Luisa Sobral Latin edit Although it is an Iberian country Portugal never had clear influences from Latin America though Portuguese musical traditions have had an influence on Latin American music particularly in Brazil and through instruments such as the cavaquinho and its descendent instruments like the cuatro Nonetheless the Latin music industry sometimes includes music sung in Portuguese from Portugal 11 12 This style came to the country in the 1990s following a Spanish and world trend Examples of Latin music singers in Portuguese are Ana Malhoa and Mil i Maria The Latin Academy of Recording Arts amp Sciences the organization responsible for the Latin Grammy Awards encompasses music from Portugal and has voting members who live in the country 13 14 Carlos do Carmo became the first Portuguese artist to win a Latin Grammy award upon receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award 15 Pimba edit Main article Pimba Pimba music is the Portuguese version of the euro Schlager or the Balkan Turbo Folk It is named after the 1995 hit Pimba Pimba by Emanuel 16 Some of its biggest names are Emanuel Agata Suzana Micaela Ruth Marlene and Quim Barreiros This genre mixes traditional sounds with accordion Latin beats and funny or religious mainly kitch lyrics Folk and political Musica de Intervencao edit nbsp Sculpture of Jose Afonso in Grandola During the Estado Novo authoritarian regime music was widely used by the left wing resistance as a way to say what could not be said singing about freedom equality and democracy mainly through metaphors and symbols Many composers and singers became famous and persecuted by the political police some of them being arrested or exiled such as Jose Afonso Paulo de Carvalho Jose Mario Branco Sergio Godinho Adriano Correia de Oliveira Manuel Freire Pedro Barroso Fausto Vitorino Julio Pereira and some others Their music was and remains mostly based on Portuguese folk music and elements of European style singer songwriter genres Jose Afonso began performing in the 1950s he was a popular roots based musician that led the Portuguese roots revival With artists like Sergio Godinho and Luis Cilia Afonso helped form nova cancao music which after the 1974 revolution gained socially aware lyrics and became canto livre The biggest names in canto livre were Banda do Casaco and Brigada Victor Jara groups that seriously studied and were influenced by Portuguese regional music The poet singer songwriter was also a significant contributor to the modern romance genre can be compared to Leonard Cohen After the Carnation Revolution that same music was used to support left wing parties Political ideas and causes like the agrarian reform socialism equality democratic elections free education and many other were a constant presence in these songs lyrics often written by well known poets like Jose Barata Moura Manuel Alegre or Ary dos Santos Reggae and ska edit More underground but very prominent are Portuguese reggae and ska Unregarding some 2 Tone and reggae influenced singles in the late 70s by bands like Roquivarios or early 80s mod outfit Taxi it was only in the early 1990s when the first Portuguese roots reggae band Kussondulola reached the mainstream public Best known Portuguese reggae singers include Richie Campbell Mercado Negro Prince Wadada and Freddy Locks while some of the more famous bands of these types include Terrakota Primitive Reason Sativa One Sun Tribe One Love Family Arsha Three and a Quarter Purocracy Chapa Dux and Souls of Fire This music is popular among young people with its main roots based in Lisbon and the surrounding areas Earlier ska bands in Portugal included Despe amp Siga and Contratempos while The Ratazanas can be considered the best known Portuguese Early reggae and Rocksteady band They recorded for German label Grover Records and toured throughout Europe on their own right as well as backing Jamaican singers like Susan Cadogan Skarmiento Skalibans and Skamioneta do Lixo are other Portuguese ska bands Rock edit Main article Portuguese rock nbsp Xutos amp Pontapes Portuguese rock was born in the 1980s with acts like Rui Veloso and Jorge Palma Examples of popular Portuguese rock bands having a long history are Xutos amp Pontapes and UHF who have been playing for over 30 years and are known widely throughout Portugal as well as Mao Morta a unique and controversial Portuguese band with decades long activity Well known solo singers include Rui Veloso Jorge Palma and Pedro Abrunhosa Cla pop rock Grupo Novo Rock pop rock and rock Fingertips pop rock Blasted Mechanism electro rock and dub reggae fusion Suspiria Franklyn punk rock new wave Linda Martini post noise rock peixe aviao post rock Ornatos Violeta indie rock A Book in the Shelf grunge rock Dream Circus grunge rock Decreto 77 punk rock or Mazgani alternative are other important acts citation needed The indie and alternative rock movements are also popular in Portugal Some indie and alternative bands and artists from Portugal are Os Pontos Negros Memoria de Peixe Linda Martini The Glockenwise Capitao Fausto Frankie Chavez Stereoboy Quelle Dead Gazelle B Fachada Noiserv Golden Slumbers band as well as the Luso Brazilian group Banda do Mar Romantic edit The highest exponents of this kind of music in Portugal are Tony Carreira and Marco Paulo both and even other performers have a certain level of overlap with the Pimba genre even partial or just in certain songs Singers of Portuguese descent editThere are several popular musicians of Portuguese descent Luso francofonic artists include Linda de Suza Portuguese born and later an immigrant in France and Marie Myriam winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 Nelly Furtado reflected some of her Portuguese origins especially in lesser known songs in her first albums songs like Scared sung by Furtado in English and Portuguese Nas Horas do Dia and Forca Portugal born Nuno Bettencourt s heritage is also reflected in the title of Extreme s 2008 album Saudades de Rock Steve Perry former lead singer of rock group Journey is American of Portuguese ancestry as is Aerosmith s Joe Perry both their original paternal family names being Pereira The lead singer from Jamiroquai Jay Kay has Portuguese descent through his father Ana da Silva a founding member of the cult post punk band The Raincoats is also of Portuguese origin Also Mia Rose which has collaborations with Portuguese artists and even songs in the Portuguese language was a juror at The Voice Portugal Others include Katy Perry Shawn Mendes Mishlawi and DEV and Carlos Melo See also edit nbsp Latin music portal Category Portuguese musical instrumentsReferences edit Tejo Beat 1998 CD Discogs Fado urban popular song of Portugal unesco org UNESCO Retrieved 3 November 2015 Cante Alentejano polyphonic singing from Alentejo southern Portugal unesco org UNESCO Retrieved 3 November 2015 Sardinha Vitor 15 July 2016 teixeira maria ascensao fernandes in Portuguese Agencia de Promocao da Cultura Atlantica Retrieved 24 March 2023 ANA MARIANO PARTILHA SINGLE DE ESTREIA ORDINARY VIEW Glam Magazine Retrieved 11 July 2019 Aveirense Ana Mariano apresenta Insomnia Diario de Aveiro Retrieved 9 November 2019 Ana Mariano Everything I Touch 2020 CD Discogs It Happened Here Portuguese dance goes global Redbull com Retrieved 27 November 2021 ARMANDO MENDES danielapress eu Retrieved 28 May 2019 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Music Vol 1 Africa Europe and the Middle East pp 225 236 Rough Guides Ltd Penguin Books ISBN 1 85828 636 0External links edit in French Audio clips Traditional music of Portugal Musee d ethnographie de Geneve Accessed 25 November 2010 Portuguese Music Information Centre Fado Music in Alfama Neighborhood of Lisbon Folk and Trad music and dance News interviews reviews photos and music Portuguese Music By Gina Modesto in Accessible Portugal Online Magazine Portuguese Composers Database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Music of Portugal amp oldid 1219619635 Fado, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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