Dulce Pontes

Dulce Pontes was born on Apr 08, 1969 in Portugal. Dulce Pontes's big-screen debut came with According to Pereira directed by Roberto Faenza in 1995. Dulce Pontes is known for According to Pereira directed by Roberto Faenza, Marcello Mastroianni stars as Pereira and Joaquim de Almeida as Manuel. The most recent award Dulce Pontes achieved is Golden Globes, Portugal. The upcoming new movie Dulce Pontes plays is The Past Is a Foreign Land which will be released on Oct 31, 2008.

At the age of 4 years old she sang the Portuguese national anthem at her home in Montijo, a small town located in front of Lisbon on the other side of the river Tejo. Daughter of Lourdes and the bookkeeper Tomás Pontes, she was born on the 8th of April of 1969, year in which, in the field of music, the prodigious decade of sixties was powering down with the mythic Woodstock festival, the last recordings of The Beatles ('Abbey Road' and it's famous sleeve of the zebra crossing) and the murder of an African American member of the audience in Altamont by the "Hell's Angels", the security staff that The Rolling Stones contracted. The young Dulce, completely foreign to all those rock music events that was trying to change the world, but that should have woke-up from this dream with the violent decade of seventies, was just starting to walk in the last years of "salazarismo", in a isle and back warded Portugal. She was introduced to the fado tradition for her uncle Carlos Pontes, also bullfights lover. He was her maestro. At seven years old she started to attend the Conservatorio Nacional de Música of Lisbon and the piano was her favourite instrument and where she studied until the forth year. During those years she listened to classical music as such as Portuguese and English popular music. During her adolescence she dedicated for a short period to learn modern dance, but her teachers told that she was too old to become a dancer so she definitely decided to be a musician. In Montijo she became the leader of a urban rock band The "percapita", an amateur project without any aspirations for the future. The first professionals experiences came up when the young singer was chosen among various applicants, to substitute the main actress of the musical 'Enfim Sos", in November 1988. The rehearse was done at Namouche studios where Dulce will know her future first producer Guillherme Ines, a prestigious musician who collaborates among others with Zeca Afonso. She got her first musical contract. After have been the leading actress of another musical, she was invited at TV programs, recording of commercial advertising's and shows at Estoril Casino, where Dulce got the attention for the quality of her voice, her interpretations of fado and Shirley Bassey's themes. The appreciations of the public began with the TV show 'Regresso ao passado', where she sang song of sixties, among them 'The fool on the hill' of Lennon and McCartney. She did her first decisive step at the Eurovison in 1991 where she won the competition with the song 'Lusitana Paixao' , a soul ballad but with a clear homage to fado in its text. This success gave her the passport to represent Portugal at the Eurovision Festival that took place in the same year in Rome (at Cinecitta), where she obtained the 8th place (the best ranking Portugal has ever obtained till that edition) and the critics award for the best performance.