BaianaSystem is a musical project aimed at spreading and exploring new possibilities through the sounds of Guitarra Baiana. This singular electric…

Official site (with long song extracts): www.carminho.net

In 2009, Carminho sang "Fado". This was her fado, the one she owned since an early…

Born Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças on 17th April 1980 in São Paulo, Brazil, her father was a composer, arranger, and musicologist. It was from him…

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Gilberto Gil (born 26 June, 1942) is a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter, and Brazil's former minister of culture.

He began his career as a…

Jorge Duílio Lima Menezes (nascido no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, em 22 de março de 1939), mais conhecido como Jorge Ben ou Jorge Ben Jor, é um…

Cape-verdean born in La Havana, Cuba, in 1985, the precocious talents of Mayra Andrade first reached a world stage in 2001. That’s when the…

Born in 1992, Pongo (formerly known as Pongo Love) became one of the voices of Kuduro. She was born in Angola but grew up in the outskirts of…

Rita Vian works her voice and composition in a broad spectrum between electronics and tradition. Fado is a very important chapter in her artistic…

Rubel Brisolla (Volta Redonda, April 10, 1991) is a Brazilian singer and composer. Born in Volta Redonda, a city in the interior of the state of Rio de…