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Preto No Branco
''Preto no Branco'' (literally "black on white") was Boss AC's fourth album released on 16 March 2009 in Portugal. It celebrates fifteen years of his career from his first album Rapública (or Rapublic). The album features appearances by Olavo Bilac and TC and the duet by the fado singer Mariza who made the first disco single UPA - Undiso Para Ajudar, a disc with the original duets of Portuguese artists and serves with a company of social actions which had heard on the radio in late 2008, promoted by Associação Encontrar-se. Samples by Vitorino and the Cape Verdean singer Ildo Lobo are used in the album. The video of the single ''Estou Vivo'' was recorded in Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop .... The album was recorded in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boss AC
Ângelo César do Rosário Firmino, better known by the stage name Boss AC (born January 20, 1975) is a Portugal, Portuguese rapper originally from Cape Verde. The letters A and C, in Boss AC, come from the initials of his two names, Ângelo and César, respectively. Career His most popular songs include "Dinero", "Baza Baza", and "Doa a Quem Doer". Although he lives in Portugal, he spends a lot of his time in Africa, especially Angola. He has collaborated with many Angolan rappers, most notably Gutto, with whom he worked on "Dinero". Boss AC started his career in 1994 with ''Rapública'', a compilation album that joined together the new faces of the Portuguese hip hop movement. He was both a performer and producer on this album. In 1998, Boss AC recorded his first album, ''Mandachuva'', in the USA with production by Troy Hightower. This album was a mixture of hip-hop, ragga, soul, R&B and African sounds. He also recorded a duet titled "No Stress" with Gutto. Together, they p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tó Cruz
Tó Cruz (born António José Ramos da Cruz, 9 July 1967, Lisbon) is a Portuguese singer of Cape Verdean descent, best known for his participation in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest. Biography Cruz started out as a studio backing singer and voiceover performer for television and radio commercials. In 1995, he entered the Portuguese Eurovision selection, ''Festival da Canção'', with the song '" Baunilha e chocolate" ("Vanilla and Chocolate"), and was the clear winner with the regional juries. "Baunilha e chocolate" went forward to the 40th Eurovision Song Contest, held on 13 May in Dublin. Cruz's performance was professional, but the song itself did not prove popular with the juries, finishing in 21st place of the 23 entries after receiving points only from France and Greece. This was Portugal's lowest Eurovision placement at the time. Cruz provides the voice of Quasimodo in the Portuguese version of Disney's ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', the singing voice of Dodger in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a population of about 680,000 and an area of , it is the most densely populated region in the world. Formerly a Portuguese colony, the territory of Portuguese Macau was first leased to Portugal as a trading post by the Ming dynasty in 1557. Portugal paid an annual rent and administered the territory under Chinese sovereignty until 1887. Portugal later gained perpetual colonial rights in the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking. The colony remained under Portuguese rule until 1999, when it was transferred to China. Macau is a special administrative region of China, which maintains separate governing and economic systems from those of mainland China under the principle of " one country, two systems".. The unique blend of Portuguese and Chinese arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ildo Lobo
Ildo Lobo (November 25, 1953 – October 20, 2004) was a Cape Verdean singer. His versatile and melodic voice, commanding stage presence and trademark berets made him one of the most recognizable performers in Cape Verde."Ildo Lobo, Cape Verde's Greatest Male Singer Passed Away" at ''World Music Central'' Always well known throughout the Cape Verde Islands, Lobo rose to international fame with his first solo work, "''Nôs Morna''", following it with another album "''Intellectual''". Biography Lobo was born on the island of Sal in the town of |
Vitorino Salomé
Vitorino Salomé Vieira (born 11 July 1942), commonly known simply as Vitorino, is a Portuguese singer-songwriter. His music combines the traditional music of his native region of Alentejo and urban popular song. Discography Albums * ''Semear Salsa ao Reguinho'' (LP, Orfeu, 1975) co-produced with Fausto Bordalo Dias * ''Se fores ao Alentejo'' * ''Semear salsa ao reguinho'' * ''Cantiga dum marginal do séc.XIX'' * ''A Primavera do Outono'' * ''Ó patrão dê-me um cigarro'' * ''São saias, senhor, são saias'' * ''Dizem p'ra 'à que chegou'' * ''Cantiga de uma greve de Verão'' * ''Temos a força dos ventos'' * ''O tudo é todo nosso'' * ''Menina estás à janela'' * ''Morra quem não tem amores'' * ''Vou-me embora vou partir'' * ''Os Malteses'' (LP, Orfeu, 1977) * ''Alentejo és nossa terra'' * ''Rouxinol repenica o cante'' * ''Oh Beja, terrÃvel Beja'' * ''Barrancos és minha terra'' * ''Saias da União Cooperativa do Redondo'' * ''O maltês'' * ''Cantares do mês d' Outubro'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariza
Marisa dos Reis Nunes ComIH (born 16 December 1973), known professionally as Mariza (), is a Portuguese fado singer. Mariza was born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, to a Portuguese father, José Brandão Nunes, and a Mozambican mother, Isabel Nunes. When she was three years old, her family moved to Metropolitan Portugal, and she was raised in Lisbon's historic quarters of Mouraria and Alfama. While very young she began singing in a wide variety of musical styles, including gospel, soul and jazz. Her father strongly encouraged her to adopt fado; he felt that participating in the traditional music would grant her greater acceptance in the Portuguese community. Mariza has sold over 1 million records worldwide. Music career In 1999, fado's most famous and beloved interpreter, Amália Rodrigues died. In the public remembrance and mourning that followed, fado regained much of its previous popularity, and Mariza was asked to perform a broadcast tribute to Rodrigues' me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olavo Bilac
Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac (16 December 1865 – 28 December 1918), known simply as Olavo Bilac (), was a Brazilian Parnassianism, Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad". He was elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" in 1907 by the magazine ''Fon-Fon''. He wrote the lyrics of the Brazilian Flag Anthem. He founded and occupied the 15th chair of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1918. He is also the patron of the military service in Brazil due to his campaigns in favor of conscription. Life Bilac was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac and Delfina Belmira Gomes de Paula. As a young man, he was a brilliant student, enrolling in the school of medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro at the age of 15. He began studying medicine, but did not finish the course. He also tried to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas - demographia.com, 06.2021 About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapública
''Rapública'' (partly known as Rapublic, Portuguese for "Rapublic" a combination of the words "rap" and "republic") was the first compilation of Portuguese rap music released by several artists including Boss AC, Black Company, Zona Dread, Family and LÃderes da Nova Mensagem. Importance This album knew Portugal a different music which for many were still unknown, rap and hip hop, "Nadar" of , one of the music with that compilation, started to air on Portuguese radio stations, eventually becoming a great success. Other successful tracks from the album included "Rap é uma potência" by LNM, "Rabola pô Corpo" by Family, many were heard in discotheques and the e ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disco Digital
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars. Disco started as a mixture of music from venues popular with Italian Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans and Black Americans "'Broadly speaking, the typical New York discothèque DJ is young (between 18 and 30) and Italian,' journalist Vince Lettie declared in 1975. ..Remarkably, almost all of the important early DJs were of Italian extraction .. Italian Americans have played a significant role in America's dance music culture .. While Italian Americans mostly from Brooklyn largely created disco from scratch .." in Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction by the 1960s counterculture to both the dominance of rock music and the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
