Portuegese Songs

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Portuguese pop music is gaining popularity especially with American pop genres like reggae and ska since the beginning. Off late hip hop, rock, metal, electronica and jazz also seem to be dominating the Portuguese pop music circuit.

Popular reggae and ska music bands are Three and a Quarter, Purocracy and Primitive Reason.  Rock music seems to be growing every day in Portugal and famous artists include Squeeze Theeze Pleez, Xutos e Pontapes, Jorge Palma etc. Boss AC is a popular rap artist. Nelly Furtado and Nuno Bettencourt are internationally recognized singers. Other popular bands are Madredeus, DA Weasel, RAMP, Ornates Violeta, David Fonseca, Faithfull and many more.

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Portuguese folk music has been popular always especially after the roots revival during the 60’s and 70’s. Trás-os-Montes’ folk music is similar to the music of Galicia, Cantabaria and Asturia. They usually sing in the Mirandes language using bagpipes. Capella vocals are very popular as well.

Baixo Alentejo’s folk music is heavily influenced by Arabic music. They make use of polyphonic singing groups.

Many political songs were composed to awaken the people towards the political situation of Portugal. Famous of these politics oriented artists were Zeca Afonso, Sérgio Godinho, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Manuel Freire, Vitorino and many others.

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The biggest characteristic of Portuguese music is fado music which means fate in Portuguese. It has its origins in the 15th century in Lisbon. It’s a lyrically harsh style of music with most of the songs bearing a sad theme and is influenced by Arabic music. It’s usually sung with a Portuguese guitar. Since the 20th century fado music has been getting international recognition especially the fado music of the city of Coimbra. Some popular fado artists are Amalia Rodrigues, Jose Afonso, Sergio Godinho, Luis Cilla, Brigada Victor Jada and many more.

Portuguese classical music despite having European roots also reflects on the intercontinental cultural interactions witnessed by Portugal primarily because of its geographical location. Some famous Portuguese composers are Pedro de Escobar, Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, Carlos Seixas, Marcos Portugal, Emmanuel Nunes etc.