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Roberto Leal was born António Joaquim Fernandes on November 27, 1951 in Vale da Porca, Portugal. At age thirteen emigrated to Brazil along with his parents and ten siblings, in four trips. In São Paulo, after working as a shoemaker and candy seller, he began his career as a fado and romantic singer. Thanks to the success achieved in the 70s, he presents himself as the ambassador of the Portuguese culture in Brazil. His line “oh girl, if you want to be beautiful, turn it up, turn it up, turn it up” (“ai cachopa, se tu queres ser bonita, arrebita,...

Fausto Leali (born 29 October 1944, Nuvolento, Italy) is an Italian singer, famous for his rough and aggressive voice, in sharp contrast with Italian melody conventions. Due to his voice, he is nicknamed "The black white" ("Negro bianco"). Leali began his musical career as a singer in several bands in his native Brescia. He released his first single in 1960 as 'Fausto Denis', for the magazine Nuova Enigmistica Tascabile. Then he joined a group from Alessandria, the Novelty, which had already released an EP in 1961. With the group he managed to obtain a recording contract with the record label,...

...and if you want Lealoo will take you to the land of dreamy downtempo, where broken melancholic female vocals guide you through a maze of clever harmony compositions. While listening you will get haunted by whisper of dark rhymes smartly built in electronic sound... Music such as Lealoo is not of a common kind – call it triphop or downtempo, maybe similar to Lamb or Portishead. Lealoo’s last CD called Pinions sounds electronically, on the other hand Lealoo live performance has a more rock feelings. You can hit upon Lealoo music for instance in real-time strategy game Dark Oberon or...