IMC PORTUGAL

IMC13 Results

2005-02-08T21:23:00.000Z

Thanks to these countries:

12 pts Gibraltar
10 pts Malta, Belgium, Hungary
8 pts UK
7 pts Norway
6 pts Poland
5 pts USA
4 pts Russia, Slovenia
3 pts Sweden
2 pts
1pt Greece

Total: 80 pts

Congrats to the winner: Sweden

Lyric IMC14

2005-02-08T19:56:00.000Z

Someone that Cannot Love - David Fonseca

You locked your heart
You make up with tears and stars in your eyes
You gave it all to someone that
Cannot love you back

Your days are packed
With wishes and hopes for the love that you've got
You waste it all to someone that
Cannot love you back

Someone that cannot love

Love, ain't this enough?
You push yourself down
You try to take comfort in words
But words
They cannot love
Don't waste hem like that
Cus they'll bruise you more

You secretly made
Castle of sand that you hide in the shade
But you cannot hold the tides that break them
And you build them all over again

Someone that cannot be love

Love, ain't this enough?
You push yourself down
You try to take comfort in words
But words
They cannot love
Don't waste hem like that
Cus they'll bruise you more

Love, love, ain't this enough?
This pushing around
To find little comfort in words
But words
They cannot love
Don't waste them like that
Cus they ¿ll bruise you more

You know they'll bruise you more
Words they will hurt you more

His website:
http://www.littleboyworld.com/ (official)
http://www.filipe_fonseca.web.pt/ (unofficial)

Nonstop (IMC13)

2004-12-29T13:49:00.000Z

Nonstop a girlsband that revolutioned the pop portuguese sound! It's composed by four girls, Rita, Andrea, Liliana and Kátia. They are already in the second album, the first one was a hit
and the second followed the first, the third album well that will come soon at least in the news they already say that it comes soon ;)
They sing in portuguese but they also have songs in english, to see their site just go to:
http://eventos.clix.pt/nonstop/index.html

http://www.junior.te.pt/Final/ImgABR/concurso/nonstop_k.jpg

there u can see some videos, postcards, news about each element of this girlsband....well go and see it! the site is in portuguese =( for more information ask =)

Portuguese Result IMC12

2004-12-27T23:00:00.000Z

Portugal ended in the 3rd place with Nelly Furtado - Força (70 pts)!!!
Thanks to those that voted for Portugal ;)

Nelly Furtado - Força (IMC12)

2004-12-06T01:00:00.000Z

When I was touring in Portugal, people frequently would say goodbye to me by saying "Força", wich is Portuguese slang. It translates as "keep going", or "kick ass". It's also associated with sports, especially with football (soccer). I put a feminine twist on the idea of how you feel when you're watching your favourite team. So this a happy song, a burst of energy.

Nelly Furtado

the clip of FORÇA!!!
http://boss.streamos.com/real/dreamworks/nellyfurtado/folklore/video/forca/000_forca.ram

BIOGRAPHY

Singer/songwriter Nelly Furtado heavily credits her ethnic background and childhood for culturally and crucially spawning her creativity as a female and as an inspiring if musician. Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Furtado's working-class parents, whom are of Portuguese decent, instilled a hardcore work ethic during her upbringing. She spent eight summers working as a chambermaid with her housekeeping mother, quickly realizing what it meant to honestly make a living. She turned to music for enjoyment, learning to play the guitar and the ukulele, and listened to mainstream R&B like Mariah Carey, TLC, Jodeci, Salt-N-Pepa, and Bell Biv DeVoe. Later, she delved into her older brother's collection of Radiohead, Pulp, Oasis, Portishead, the Verve, and U2, pushing Furtado to fully embrace different musical genres, specifically Brazilian music and material by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Amalia Rodrigues. Hip-hop was also a big catalyst in shaping Furtado's musical appreciation. After high school, she headed to Toronto where she worked at an alarm company by day and experienced the music scene by night. She joined a hip-hop duo tagged Nelstar, and this opportunity led Furtado back to her hip-hop influences of De La Soul and Digable Planets. This allowed her to get comfortable with writing her own melodies and freestyle rhymes. When Furtado started cutting loose at a local Toronto club during the week, her musical aspirations began to swirl. Brian West and Gerald Eaton, who were of the Canadian funk-pop group the Philosopher Kings, were instantly impressed by her strong sense of performing and asked to produce her demo. During those sessions, Furtado created some of the moving work which landed on her debut for Dreamworks; these solid collaborations led to the pertinent introduction of Nelly Furtado and the critical acclaim of her debut Whoa Nelly!, released in fall 2000. A headling tour of the U.S in spring 2001 sparked more interest from fans and critics, and a spot on Moby's Area:One summer tour allowed singles "I'm Like a Bird" and "Turn Off the Light" to receive bigger praise. Furtado's greatest achievement followed a year later when she earned four Grammy nods, including "Song of the Year" for "I'm Like a Bird." Folklore appeared in November 2003, nearly two months after Furtado gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Nevis. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide.

Her site:
http://www.nellyfurtado.com/

Pictures of IMC Portuguese Entries

2004-12-03T00:49:00.000Z

There you can find the pictures of the portuguese artists...

http://www.shutterfly.com

mail: catmafalda@clix.pt
password: portugal

IMC 11

2004-12-02T21:43:00.000Z

Hope u've like the return of Portugal in this contest..I hope u also like the entry

So Watt is a different project that, as some experts would say, is very different from what Portugal makes, in sonorities very few explored among us with big influence of R'n'B, Funk, House music and Techno.

I'ts constitued by a duo of women: first, we've Verónica, singer wich made part of a group called DR Sax and a MC.Xénia, singer that was also on a group, called Black Queens and in other musical projects.

Their debut album, SoWatt!!, was produced by Pedro Saraiva, ex. vocalist of a group called D.R.Sax.

The song I'm enetering is "Don't let me (down)"

Enjoy it...