Dulce Pontes

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Dulce Pontes (Vienna 2009)

Dulce Pontes (also known as Dulce , born April 8, 1969 in Montijo , Portugal ) is a Portuguese singer and composer .

Life and accomplishments

Pontes has been the new star of Fado in Portugal since the early 1990s . In 1991 she won the Portuguese song competition and started under the name Dulce at the Eurovision Song Contest in the same year. There she was eighth out of 22 participants.

Her first album came out in 1992: Lusitana . In 1993 their second album Lágrimas was released , which became one of the best-selling albums of all time in Portugal. She became better known internationally through a concert in Verona with Ennio Morricone , where she sang songs by the Italian film composer and conducted Morricone. In 1999 she sang a duet with Andrea Bocelli called O Mare E Tu , which appeared in Bocelli's album Sogno that same year . In 2003 Morricone and Pontes made a joint album.

Internationally, she appeared in the group game draw for the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal, when she appeared in the supporting program.

In 2006 she released a triple album with O coração tem três portas . It is a live concert CD and a DVD with video recordings. The accompanying studio CD presents Pontes as her own composer and producer.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Focus (with Ennio Morricone)
  PT 3 43/2003 (25 weeks)
O coração tem 3 portas
  PT 12 49/2004 (9 weeks)
Momentarily
  PT 7th 20/2009 (11 weeks)
Best Of Dulce Pontes
  PT 6th 48/2019 (16 weeks)
  • 1992: Lusitana
  • 1993: Lágrimas
  • 1995: A brisa do coração
  • 1996: Caminhos
  • 1999: O primeiro canto
  • 2002: Best of Dulce Pontes
  • 2003: Focus (with Ennio Morricone )
  • 2006: O Coração Tem Três Portas
  • 2009: momentarily
  • 2017: Peregrinaçâo
  • 2019: Best Of Dulce Pontes

Web links

Commons : Dulce Pontes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Hung: Andrea Bocelli with Dulce Pontes - 'o mare e tu - hitparade.ch. Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Dulce Pontes: El Corazón Tiene Tres Puertas (HR2 Culture December 10, 2007)
  3. ↑ Chart sources: PT
personal data
SURNAME Pontes, Dulce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dulce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese fado singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Montijo