Paulo Mendonça is a Swedish funk guitarist songwriter and composer of

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origin. He has released five studio albums and one live album, the first three in the 1990s as a performing artist and sold more than 250.000 copies and as a songwriter he received 8x platinum awards. In 1996 he particiapted at the

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. He toured with

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among others. In 2008, he collaborated on Jeff Scott Soto's album, ''Beautiful mess''. In 2010 Mendonca worked on several songs on the

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Album "Happiness" as a guitarist and background vocalist. In 2013, he released ''Does anybody wanna funk?'' which featured the song ''Birds and the bees,'' a moderate success in Sweden and Germany He was one of the first musicians ever to collaborate with the

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to provide tunes for its Melody line of wristwatches. His latest collaboration with Swatch is th
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from the Winter 2013 collection. In 2017 he co-wrote the song "Funky Song" for the polish singer

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Discography

Albums

Singles

Discography and certifications as songwriter

A discography of songs written and/or produced by Paulo Mendonca.

References

External links

Official site

YouTube page
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Brazilian guitarists Brazilian bass guitarists Male bass guitarists {{bass-guitarist-stub Swedish people of Portuguese descent