With more than 30 years, Dulce Pontes (Montijo, Portugal) is, without a doubt, an essential voice for lovers of Portuguese fado and music in general. Pianist, composer and performer, her successful ‘Canção do Mar’, published worldwide in 1993 and one of the public’s favorite songs, established Dulce Pontes as the reviver of Fado, thus taking the baton from the great Amalia Rodrigues.

Her incredible artistic conditions, her classical training and her cultural concerns have led Dulce Pontes to travel the world collaborating with the greatest artists from different latitudes.

His meeting with the great Ennio Morricone deserves a special mention, as a result of which an intense friendship and professional relationship was forged, from which the great Focus album emerged in 2003, of which more than 300,000 copies were sold, in addition to the world tours that they carried out jointly.

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The mutual admiration and affection between Dulce and the maestro, who sadly passed away in July 2020, can be clearly seen in his current repertoire, which includes some of the most emblematic songs of the great genius, such as, for example, ‘Cinema Paradiso.’

Nor is there a lack in this new show of songs by Dulce, who is one of her musical references and to whom no one has yet paid tribute to her incredible voice and immense personality: the great Brazilian diva Elis Regina, who left us prematurely in the years 80. Songs full of strength, dance and sensuality that Dulce Pontes brings to her field with immense respect and responsibility in her concerts.

A memorable year was 2021 which undoubtedly became a new artistic challenge for Dulce Pontes. Concerts scheduled in the main European cities in 2021 (London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Brussels, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Lisbon) and America (Sao Paulo, Rio, Bogotá, Mexico) allowed the public to meet again with this exceptional artist and the only one they keep in their memory and which they will now be able to enjoy on stage.

For this tour, Dulce Pontes was accompanied by the Cuban Yelsy Heredia (considered the best double bass of his generation and a regular collaborator of the great Chucho Valdés), the Portuguese Luis Guerreiro (considered one of the best Portuguese guitarists) and also Cuban Sergio Fernández (piano).

The press has written about Dulce Pontes: New York Times, about her concert at Carnegie Hall. ‘Ms. Pontes has an extraordinary voice: acidic and sympathetic, delicate and searing, which she extends upward like a soprano in the air.’

ProyecteurTV about her concert at the Lacoste Pierre Cardin Festival. ‘While listening to the radio in the car, Pierre Cardin and his nephew Rodrigo, passionate about art, design, creation, and music, discovered the fabulous fado performer, Dulce Pontes, a Portuguese artist, who closed the program of the Lacoste Festival, July 24, 2017.’

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The Guardian, about her London concert with Ennio Morricone. ‘It sounded tremendous here, as do the pieces with fado-referencing Portuguese vocal soloist Dulce Pontes, who brings thrilling melodrama to the abrasive theme of the 1971 Italian docudrama Sacco & Vanzetti.’ Granada Today, about her concert in July 2020 at the Granada International Festival. ‘The miracle of this voice that seems to come from a world where pain does not exist.’ THOSE WHO CARE SHARE