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Nancy Adelaide Vieira was born in 1975, in Guine Bissau to Caboverdean parents. Nancy arrived in Cabo Verde when she was only two months old. At the age of fourteen, she left Cabo Verde to live in Lisbon, as her father, Herculano Vieira was appointed Caboverdean ambassador’s in Portugal. In 1995 Nancy Vieira took part in a singing contest, which she won. The prize was to record an album that was named Nos raça. Nancy has since been invited to be on the same stage with some of the most important singers from Cabo Verde such as Cesária Évora, Bana,...

Brazilian, born in February 13th, 1978, at Rio de Janeiro. Leo Alves Vieira's parents both had musical experience. Portuguese father, Diniz, used to play violin in a priest school orchestra in Portugal, and Brazilian mother, Lucia, used to play the acoustic guitar and sing along with her friends, a successful Brazilian group called "Clube da Esquina", that recorded their first record with Milton Nascimento on vocals. She gave up her instrument to the MPB guitar player Francisco Horta, at that time a political prisoner of Brazilian dictatorship. Leo's grandfather, Mario Alves de Souza Vieira, father of Lucia, was killed by...

José Carlos Amaral Vieira (born 1952 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian composer, pianist, and musicologist. Performing solo since he was eight years old, Amaral Vieira studied piano with Souza Lima and composition with Artur Hartmann in Brazil. Later, he studied in France at the Paris Conservatory with Lucette Descaves and Olivier Messiaen; in Germany at the Freiburger Musikhochschule with Carl Seeman and Konrad Lechner; and in the United Kingdom with Louis Kentner. In 1977, Amaral Vieira returned to Brazil to embark on the career of a virtuoso performer, while introducing his own compositions in concert programmes. He has achieved...

Luiz Rattes Vieira Filho (Caruaru, 12 de outubro de 1928) é um cantor, compositor e radialista brasileiro. Seu nome foi uma homenagem ao avô. Perdeu a mãe com apenas dois anos de idade. Antes dos dez anos mudou-se para o Rio de Janeiro, sendo criado pelo avô em Alcântara, município de São Gonçalo. Na ex-capital federal exerceu diversas atividades antes de ingressar na vida artística. Foi chofer de caminhão, motorista de táxi, guia de cego, engraxate e lapidário. Em criança cantou em circos e parques de diversão. Aos oito anos, produziu sua primeira composição. No início da sua carreira cantava...