Artist
Dulce Pontes
Dulce Pontes is a world/ethnic artist from Montijo, Portugal. 12 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
World/Ethnic · Montijo, Portugal · Best world/ethnic albums
- 12
- Releases
- 1993–2022
- Active years
Artist
Dulce Pontes is a world/ethnic artist from Montijo, Portugal. 12 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
World/Ethnic · Montijo, Portugal · Best world/ethnic albums
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Momentos
2009 · 17 tracks
Dulce Pontes is a Portuguese musician, songwriter and singer who writes and performs in many music styles, including pop, folk, fado and classical music. Her songs contributed to the 1990s revival of Portuguese urban folk music called fado. Blessed with a powerful and dramatic voice, she is one of the most famous and respected Portuguese artists. Pontes started her career as a mainstream pop artist, but over the years she has evolved to become a world music singer. She blends traditional fado with contemporary styles and searches out new forms of musical expression. She introduced musical traditions of the Iberian Peninsula in her work, rediscovered many long forgotten popular tunes and found use for obsolete musical instruments. Her work is inspired and influenced not only by Iberian musical tradition, but also Arabic, African, Brazilian and Bulgarian sounds. She sings mostly in her native Portuguese, as well as Spanish, Galician, Mirandese, Italian, English, Arabic and Greek. Dulce Pontes has collaborated with Cesária Évora, Caetano Veloso, Marisa Monte, Carlos Núñez, the Chieftains, Kepa Junkera, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, George Dalaras, Andrea Bocelli (O Mar e Tu, duet sung by P…
