Top 10 Musicians Of Portuguese Descent
Stephen Ray "Steve" Perry is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is known as the lead singer of the rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from 1977 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1998. Born in the US to Portuguese parents. Incredible voice and vocal technique.
Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the American rock band Aerosmith. Born in the US but his father was of Portuguese descent from Madeira
David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality.
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes is a Canadian singer-songwriter and model. He attracted a following in 2013, when he began posting song covers on the popular video sharing application Vine. His father is Portuguese
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, professionally known by her stage name Katy Perry, was born on October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. She is a singer, songwriter, actress and an ambassador on one of the most popular companies of now, UNICEF.She is also is one of the best-selling artists of all time. She won 4 Guinness World Records, 5 MTV Awards, 5 American Music Awards, 16'ASCAP Pop Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 14 People's Choice, 1 Juno Award, 2 Myx Music Awards, 3 NRJ Awards, 6 Teen Choice and a Brit Award. ...read more.
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A little bit of Portuguese blood
Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt is a Portuguese-American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He became known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme. Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt is a Portuguese-American born in Portugal, guitarist for Extreme.
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold 20 million albums worldwide and more than 20 million singles, bringing her total sales to over 40 million records around the world. Born in Canada to Portuguese parents
Fernando Ribeiro has been the lead vocalist for the Portuguese metal band Moonspell since 1992. He sings gothic metal, black metal, doom metal, melodic death metal.Vocalist for bands DevilDriver, and formerly Coal Chamber.
A composer whose score from "love" was nominated for Best Original Score For a Feature Film at the Hollywood Music In Media Awards, alongside the scores for "Lincoln" (John Williams), "Skyfall" (Thomas Newman), "The Master" (Jonny Greenwood), "Rise of the Guardians"(Alexandre Desplat), "The Hobbit"(Howard Shore).
She released her debut single "Could You Be The One" in 2010