Amor Electro

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• Mariza Liz (Vocals)
• Paulo Manuel Reis Aljustrel Ribeiro Pedr (Drum)
• Ricardo Vasconcelos (Piano)
• Rui Rechena (Bass)

• country:
  Portugal
• region or city:
  Lisboa
• style(s):
  Electro
• label:
  HM Música MWF
• type:
  Band, Solist
• gender:
  male, female
• instrumentation:
  vocal
• artist submitted by:
  HM Música MWF

Amor Electro is the most successful band to have emerged in 2011.

Since its release, their debut album has been at the top of the Portuguese charts, holding on for seven weeks at number 1 and achieving gold disc status. In their brief career they have already played at some of the most important festivals on the Portuguese music scene.

Together, the musicians Tiago Pais Dias (the band's multi-instrumentalist), Ricardo Vasconcelos (keyboards), Rui Rechena (bass) and Lito Pedreira (drums) lay out the red carpet for what several opinion-makers consider to be one of the most prestigious and respected performers of the new generation: Marisa Liz.

Although Amor Electro display the influence of some international bands, all of their songs are performed in Portuguese, the language of Pessoa and Camoes, with a sound that is both electrifying and Portuguese.
Some songs were composed by guest musicians, such as Yami on "Onde Tu me quiseres". Others were penned by Tiago Pais Dias (music) and Marisa Liz (lyrics), including "A Maquina", or "Amanhecer", on which both artists wrote the music and the lyrics were written by Jorge Cruz (from the band Diabo na Cruz). The latter also wrote the lyrics for another track on this album - "Rosa Sangue" - for which the music was written by Tiago Pais Dias, who oversaw the recording arrangements and production.

Throughout the entire history of Portuguese music, it has always been a mystery how pop, as an Anglo-Saxon genre, could bear the name "Portuguese Pop", which could in a way be a bit of a contradiction.

After the summer of 1987, with the appearance of the concept of "world music" and the cult status that it gained across the world, some musicians have come to mix pop with traditional forms of music from other cultures.

Amor Electro have done no more and no less than this. All they have done is to handpick a few songs from the Portuguese music scene, write original songs, which reflect their influences, in order to build their own identity based on pop music that, this time, without any contradictions, is definitively Portuguese

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