Calema are a

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from

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...

with origins in

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formed by the two brothers António Mendes Ferreira (born 5 April 1992) and Fradique Mendes Ferreira (born 19 March 1987). The name of the duo refers to the special undulation on the African coast.

Early life

They started singing together at a very young age as they took music as a hobby. In 2008, after being crowned Absolute Winners in the 1st National Santomean Music Competitions, held in their homeland, they came to Portugal to pursue their professional degrees in the music industry. Fradique pursued a degree in Multimedia in

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and António, a degree in Video Production in

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. In 2011 they went to

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with their family and kept on doing music, as they created their cover channel on

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Career

While they were in France, they kept entering talent shows, winning one of them called "Luso artist". Three years later, Anselmo Ralph noticed them and made them enter the Portuguese music scene. Later on, they produced the album ''"A Nossa Vez" or simply "A.N.V"'' which included the song ''A Nossa Vez''. The song ended 2017 as the most viewed non- Brazilian music video of a song in Portuguese on

that year. In February 2019 they were announced as the composers and interpreters of the song "A Dois", which participated on the Festival da Canção 2019.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Singles

*2019: "A Dois" *2020: "Vai" *2022: "Te Amo"

References

External links

* {{Authority control Portuguese electronic music groups Musical duos São Toméan musical groups