António Zambujo is part of the new generation of Portuguese musicians. He started as a fado singer, but put it, bossanova, vocal jazz and folk music in a mixer add a hint of the sounds from his native region of Alentjo in the South of Portugal and that’s where his music is today.<br /><br /> “I would listen to the elderly people singing in the tavern in front of my grandmother’s house and became interested in singing, in studying the songs they would sing. So I learned some of them and started singing,” the singer recalled.<br /><br /> His concert in Lyon, France opened the “Musiques des Confluences” dedicated to world music, part of the renowned city’s festival “Nuits de Fourviere”.<br /><br /> “O pica do 7”, is a song about a girl who falls in love with a tramway ticket controller, is from his sixth and latest album, “Rua da Emenda”. <br /><br /> The singer released his first album in 2002 after his role in the musical “Amalia” about the life of fado singer Amalia Rodrigues which helped launch his career. <br /><br /> He became incr
