Dulce Pontes
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. Read Full BioDulce 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 Pontes in Portuguese and Bocelli in Neapolitan, for his 1999 album Sogno), and others. Her song "Canção do Mar" appeared on the soundtrack of Hollywood film Primal Fear. A 30-second piece of that same song serves as the theme to the NBC police drama Southland. Her album Focus is the fruit of a collaboration with Italian composer Ennio Morricone with whom she has also performed live.
In June 2006, Pontes prepared her double LP O Coração Tem Três Portas (The Heart Has Three Doors). It was recorded live without an audience in Convent of the Order of Christ in Tomar and St Mary Church in Óbidos. According to the artist, it is "her most personal and intimate album." It includes Portuguese folk music, mostly fado. "[1] It was released in December 2006.
In 2009, Pontes released Momentos, a double disc collection that includes songs from her 20 year career as well as several previously unreleased tracks.[2] Currently, she is working on an album of all new songs which is titled Nudez.
Pontes started her career as a mainstream pop artist, but over the years she has evolved to become a world music singer. Read Full BioDulce 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 Pontes in Portuguese and Bocelli in Neapolitan, for his 1999 album Sogno), and others. Her song "Canção do Mar" appeared on the soundtrack of Hollywood film Primal Fear. A 30-second piece of that same song serves as the theme to the NBC police drama Southland. Her album Focus is the fruit of a collaboration with Italian composer Ennio Morricone with whom she has also performed live.
In June 2006, Pontes prepared her double LP O Coração Tem Três Portas (The Heart Has Three Doors). It was recorded live without an audience in Convent of the Order of Christ in Tomar and St Mary Church in Óbidos. According to the artist, it is "her most personal and intimate album." It includes Portuguese folk music, mostly fado. "[1] It was released in December 2006.
In 2009, Pontes released Momentos, a double disc collection that includes songs from her 20 year career as well as several previously unreleased tracks.[2] Currently, she is working on an album of all new songs which is titled Nudez.
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É Tão Grande O Alentejo
Dulce Pontes Lyrics
No alentejo eu trabalho
Cultivando a dura terra,
Vou fumando o meu cigarro,
Vou cumprindo o meu horário
Lançando a semente á terra.
É tão grande o Alentejo,
Tanta terra abandonada!...
A terra é que dá o pão,
Para bem desta nação
Devia ser cultivada.
Tem sido sempre esquecido,
Á margem, ao sul do Tejo,
Há gente desempregada.
TAnta terra abandonada,
É tão grande o Alentejo!
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Batista Valente Maria José
Que grandes vozes, sobretudo, uma, que me traz imenso orgulho. . . MEU PAI. . .
Olaio Santos
Adorei ouvir a grande voz da Dulce maravilhosamente integrada no cante alentejano tão bem interpretado
Susi Kay
Wonderful!!!
Muito obrigada a sua musica
Nuno Brito
Belíssimo. Belíssimo.
Marcius Nery
Maravilhosa!!
Isabel Martins
É lindo adoro pois sou Alentejana.e só eles cantan assim. Música muito calma ,bem cantada, que entra no ouvido, e nos dá uma Páz de espírito. Continuem não deixem morrer este espetáculo.
José Ferreira
Eu estive ao vivo.
...........
António Marques
A Dulce Pontes nao mostrou ter voz para igualar cantadores amadores e não tem o cante na alma como qualquer alentejano.
Francisco Romão
caro amigo voce nao sabe....este cantar alentejano a riqueza e no contraste das vozes ...e dulce sem ser alentejana esteve muito bem
Natalia Santos
Os cantares e músicas do meu alentejo são sempre unicas não há no mundo igual viva o baixo alentejo