Calema are a

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from

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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 they came to Portugal to pursue their professional degrees on the music industry. Fradique pursued a degree in Multimedia in

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and António, a degree in Video Production in Lisbon. 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

Three years after they were in France,

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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 the year of 2017 as the most viewed music video on

sung in the

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. In February 2019 they were announced as the composers and interpreters of the song "A Dois", which participated on the Festival da Canção 2019. In 2021, Calema was featured in a song by Moroccan superstar

Saad Lamjarred Saad Lamjarred ( ar, سعد لمجرد; born 7 April 1985) is a Moroccan singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, record producer and actor. He grew up in an artist family and became famous after his songs broke YouTube audience records, ...

in "Enty Hayati" (in

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إنتي حياتي meaning You are my life). The song is trilingual in Arabic, Portuguese and English with an accompanying music video.World Today News: “Enti Hayati”, the duo of Saâd Lamjarred and Calema is a hit
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Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Singles

*2019: "A Dois" *2020: "Vai" *2022: "Te Amo" ;Featured in *2021: "Enty Hayati" (

featuring Calema)

References

External links

* {{Authority control Portuguese electronic music groups Musical duos