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Pimba
Pimba is an umbrella term for Portuguese types or genres of music with an uptempo style and/or folk song features, corny romantic or saucy and vulgar lyrics, which was often associated with poorly educated public from rural areas and suburban poor or working-class neighbourhoods, as well as with Portuguese economic migrants living abroad who spend their holidays in their ancestors' localities across the Portuguese countryside. The Portuguese word ''pimba'' by itself means a quick, unexpected event or the end of an action, and is also a slang code word for having any type of sexual pleasure with another person. A loose translation could be the English word bang when used to express an act of sexual intercourse or the expression "wham!". In the context of Portuguese music, the genre was christened Pimba after Emanuel's 1995 single called Pimba Pimba. History The genre began to have a greater popularity in the 1980s and reached its apogee in the 1990s. Pimba bands and musicians or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimba Music
Pimba is an umbrella term for Portuguese language, Portuguese types or genres of music with an uptempo style and/or folk song features, corny romantic or saucy and vulgar lyrics, which was often associated with poorly educated public from rural areas and suburban poor or working-class neighbourhoods, as well as with Portuguese economic migrants living abroad who spend their holidays in their ancestors' localities across the Portuguese countryside. The Portuguese word ''pimba'' by itself means a quick, unexpected event or the end of an action, and is also a slang code word for having any type of sexual pleasure with another person. A loose translation could be the English word bang when used to express an act of sexual intercourse or the expression "wham!". In the context of Portuguese music, the genre was christened Pimba after Emanuel's 1995 single called Pimba Pimba. History The genre began to have a greater popularity in the 1980s and reached its apogee in the 1990s. Pimba ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quim Barreiros
Joaquim de Magalhães Fernandes Barreiros (born June 19, 1947, in Vila Praia de Âncora, Portugal), known professionally as Quim Barreiros, is a Portuguese Pimba music writer, singer and accordion player, more known for his double entendre songs. Among his biggest hits are ''Bacalhau à Portuguesa'' 'Portuguese Style Cod''(1986), ''A Garagem da Vizinha'' 'The Neighbour's Garage''(2000) and ''A Cabritinha'' 'The Little Goat''(2004). He started his career before Emanuel, being one of the first, if not the actual first, documented case of pimba. Biography Quim Barreiros was born on June 19, 1947, in Vila Praia de Âncora, municipality of Caminha, Viana do Castelo District, to a Portuguese mother and a Portuguese father who was born in Brazil. When he was 9 years old, he started playing the drums in his father's band (Conjunto Alegria), after some years he started playing the accordion along with his father, until he joined a folklore group called Sta. Marta de Portuzelo and sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Malhoa
Ana Sofia Lopes Malhoa Moreira known as Ana Malhoa (born 6 August 1979) is a Portuguese singer-songwriter, TV host, actress and businesswoman. She started her career performing with her father José Malhoa, a popular Portuguese singer, in 1985. With her father, she released seven extended plays between 1986 and 1995. At age of 15 she was cast the host of the children's variety show Buéréré, releasing albums with platinum status and becoming a pop icon in the lusophone countries. In 2000, she released her first studio album, and since then she is the best selling pop artist in Portugal, with sales of over 635,000 copies. Early life Ana Malhoa was born in Lisbon on 6 August 1979, daughter of popular singer José Malhoa and Angelina Lopes. She has four half brothers of different mothers and two brothers of different father. She was raised by her stepmother Rosa, who died in 2012, at age of 73. She completed the secondary education as a pop star. The biological mother of Ana, Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosinha
Rosa Maria, known by her stage name, Rosinha, is a Portuguese Pimba singer, songwriter and accordion player. Biography Rosa was born in 1971 in Montijo, Portugal and grew up in the parish of Santo Isidro de Pegões, in the exclave of the municipality of Montijo. Her family moved to Montijo when she was 10; it was also at this time when she started playing the accordion. A few years later Rosa started studying at Instituto de Música Vitorino Matono, in Lisbon. She gave her first concerts at 17, as an accordionist. In 2007, producer Páquito Rebelo invited her to record an album. It was at that time that the singer adopted the stage name "Rosinha". Her first concert as Rosinha was in Évora. Personal life Rosa has photosensitivity, requiring her to wear sunglasses Sunglasses or sun glasses (informally called shades or sunnies; more names Sunglasses#Other names, below) are a form of Eye protection, protective eyewear designed primarily to prevent bright sunlight and high-energy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Sintra
Mónica Sintra (born 10 June 1978) is a Portuguese singer. Biography Mónica was born in Lisbon, on June 10 of 1978. At the age of 11, she joined the "Jovens Cantores de Lisboa". When she reached 15, she recorded her first album, ''Tu És O Meu Herói''. Her next album, ''Afinal Havia Outra'' was released in 1998 and won her a platinum, the single soundtrack ''Na Minha Cama Com Ela''. In 2006, Mónica released her album ''À Espera de Ti''. In 2008, she launched the album ''Acredita''. On 8 December 2010 Mónica's son Duarte was born. This gave her an inspiration and good feelings for new themes. Mónica recorded the song "Meu Pequeno Grande Amor" in honour of the birth of her son Duarte. In 2011, the singer released the album ''Um Grande Amor''. In 2018 Sintra revealed that she suffered from bulimia and anorexia Anorexia nervosa (AN), often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by Calorie restriction, food restriction, body image dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Paulo (singer)
João Simão da Silva (21 January 1945 – 24 October 2024), known professionally as Marco Paulo, was a Portuguese singer and television presenter. He was one of Portugal's most successful singers and a well-known television host. Many of his greatest hits in Portugal are credited covers of foreign songs that were relatively unknown to the Portuguese audience in their original versions. Life and career In 1978, Marco Paulo received the first of many gold discs in his career with the single "Ninguém, Ninguém"/"Canção Proibida." In 1980, he released one of his biggest hits, "Eu Tenho Dois Amores," which sold over 150,000 copies and achieved triple gold status, a rare feat in Portuguese music at the time. Other hits in the early 1980s included "Mais e mais Amor"/"Quem Vier Por Bem" (1981), "Anita" (1982), "Flor Sem Nome"/"Cá Se Faz, Cá Se Paga" (1983), and "Morena, Morenita" (1984). In December 1984, Marco Paulo released the album ''Romance'', which featured hits like "Deix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria João Bastos
Maria João David da Silva Bastos (born 18 June 1975) is a Portuguese actress. She has participated in several Brazilian productions, becoming a known actress in Brazil. Biography Maria João was born in Benavente, Santarém District. She holds a degree in Communication Sciences from the Independent University of Lisbon. Maria took an English course in England in 1993, a casting and video and dummy course at Visual LX in 1994 and a theater, film and television course in New York City in the year 2000. She signed an exclusive contract with The Portuguese television station, TVI. Bastos is ambassador of the Jaguar car brand, and representative of the Italian brand Furla, in Portugal. Her character "Liliane Marise", a pimba music singer, in the telenovela ''Destinos Cruzados'', was so remarkable that it released a CD that reached first place in the Portuguese music charts. Incarnating this same personage, she made a concert in MEO Arena, in Lisbon, in October 2013, and anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Paulo Cantor Portugues
Marco may refer to: People Given name * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor Surname * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Jindřich Marco (1921–2000), Czechoslovak photographer and numismatist * Joseph Marco (born 1988), Filipino actor * Kenny Marco (1947–2025), Canadian guitarist. * María del Pilar Sinués de Marco (1835–1893), Spanish writer * Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish composer and writer on music Places * Marco, Ceará, Brazil, a municipality * Marco, New Zealand, a locality in the Taranaki Region * Marco, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated town * Marco, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community * Marco Island, Florida, United States, a city and an island Science and technology * Mars Cube One (MarCO), a pair of small satellites which fly by Mars in 2018 * MARCO, a macrophage receptor protein that in humans is encoded by the MARCO gene * Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Styles Of Music
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine animal ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province encompassing most of modern-day Portugal (south of the Douro River) and a large portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and Province of Salamanca). Romans named the region after th ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turbo-Folk
Turbo-folk is a subgenre of contemporary South Slavs, South Slavic pop music that initially developed in Serbia during the 1990s as a fusion of techno and folk music, folk. The term was an invention of the Montenegro, Montenegrin singer Rambo Amadeus, who jokingly described the aggressive, satirical style of music as "turbo folk". While primarily associated with Serbia, this style is also popular in other former Yugoslav republics. Croatia Turbo-folk grew in Croatia in part due to the popularity of the Croatian singer Severina (singer), Severina's fusion of turbo-folk in her music. Turbo-folk is purportedly seen as a "part of everyday life in Croatia and serves a means of social release and reaction to the effects of globalisation in Croatia" according to contemporary art professor Urosh Cvoro of UNSW Sydney. Upon introduction of Croatia Songs, ''Billboard'' Croatia Songs chart on 15 February 2022, it became apparent that mainstream music from Serbia and other former Yugoslav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guimarães
Guimarães () is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, in recognition for being an "exceptionally well-preserved and authentic example of the evolution of a medieval settlement into a modern town" in Europe. The Nicolinas are the city's main festivities. Guimarães is referred as the capital of the Ave Subregion (one of the most industrialised subregions in the country), and located in the historical Minho Province. The municipality has a population of 156,830 inhabitants according to the most recent data of 2021 in an area of . The current mayor is Domingos Bragança, of the Socialist Party. Guimarães, along with Maribor, Slovenia, was the European Capital of Culture in 2012. Guimarães also received the 2026 European Green Capital Award. The city was settled in the 9th century, at which time it was called ''Vimaranes''. This name might have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
