Learn Portuguese With Song Lyrics

Michel Teló es un cantante de Brasil. Se hizo muy conocido en la música sertaneja, un género popular en su país.

Su canción más famosa, "Ai Se Eu Te Pego", se convirtió en un éxito global que puso a bailar a mucha gente. También es conocido por otros temas como "Bara Bará Bere Berê", que tienen un ritmo contagioso.

IZA is one of Brazil's biggest pop and R&B stars, celebrated for her powerful voice and commanding stage presence. Born Isabela Cristina Correia de Lima Lima in Rio de Janeiro in 1990, she first built a following by posting covers of artists like Beyoncé, Rihanna and Sam Smith on YouTube. She signed with Warner Music Brasil in 2016, and her 2018 debut album Dona de Mim earned a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Portuguese Language Contemporary Pop Album.

In 2022 she became the first Black Brazilian woman to perform on Rock in Rio's main stage, the Palco Mundo, and she released her second album Afrodhit in 2023. Blending pop, R&B and Brazilian rhythms, IZA has become a leading voice in contemporary Brazilian music and a celebrated symbol of Black representation in the country's mainstream.

Paulo Sousa is a talented Portuguese pop singer and YouTuber, born on October 31, 1991, in Coimbra, Portugal. He gained national recognition by placing third in the sixth season of Ídolos, the Portuguese version of American Idol.

Known for his soulful vocals and skills on piano, guitar, and clarinet, Paulo has released his debut album Teu in 2018, which reached number one on the Portuguese charts. Throughout his career, he has earned multiple awards at the VidYou Festival, celebrating his impact on music and social media. Paulo continues to inspire fans by blending his musical talents with engaging online content.

Marília Mendonça was a Brazilian singer and songwriter from Cristianópolis, in the state of Goiás. Born in 1995, she started writing songs as a child and launched her recording career in 2014, quickly becoming one of the biggest names in sertanejo music.

She was known as the Queen of Sofrência, the heartbreak-driven side of sertanejo, and helped lead the feminejo movement of women artists in a genre long dominated by men. Her powerful voice and honest lyrics about love and longing turned her into a superstar across Brazil. Marília died in a plane crash in November 2021 at just 26 years old, and she is still celebrated as one of the country's most beloved voices.

Nininho Vaz Maia (born Avelino Vaz Maia in 1988) is a Portuguese singer and songwriter from Lisbon, where he grew up in the working-class neighbourhoods of Olaias and Picheleira. His music grows out of the traditions of Portugal's Roma community, blending heartfelt pop melodies with the passion and rhythm of flamenco.

He first found an audience in 2013, when a home video of him singing spread across YouTube, and he went on to release popular tracks such as "Cola-te a Mim" and "Soy Gitano". "Gosto De Ti" belongs to his 2021 debut album Raízes ("Roots"), a tribute to his heritage and family. Today he is one of Portugal's most-streamed artists, loved for his emotional voice and his warm, deeply personal songs.

Calema are a duo of two brothers, António and Fradique Mendes Ferreira, from São Tomé and Príncipe who are now based in Portugal. Their name refers to the powerful swell of the ocean along the African coast.

After winning a national music competition back home in 2008, the brothers moved to Portugal to study and build their careers, and they were soon championed by the singer Anselmo Ralph. Blending kizomba, zouk and Afro-pop, their warm, romantic sound has made them one of the most popular acts singing in Portuguese. "A Nossa Vez" became a huge hit, ending 2017 as the most-watched non-Brazilian Portuguese-language music video on YouTube and going on to gather tens of millions of views. Today they are celebrated across the Portuguese-speaking world for their heartfelt love songs.

David Carreira is one of Portugal's biggest pop stars. Born in Dourdan, France, in 1991 and raised in a famously musical family as the son of the singer Tony Carreira, he broke through in 2011 with the album "N.1", which went straight to number one at home. Since then he has moved easily between radio pop, ballads and dance rhythms, and in 2019 he became the youngest Portuguese artist ever to sell out the Altice Arena in Lisbon.

On "Menta" he shares the microphone with Djodje, a Cape Verdean singer, songwriter and producer born in Praia in 1989 and now based in Lisbon. Djodje grew up surrounded by music, started out as a teenager in the group TC, and has become one of the leading voices of kizomba and Afropop across the Portuguese speaking world. His warm, laid back delivery, part of it sung in Cape Verdean Creole, is what gives this song its island heat.

Sergio Mendes (1941 to 2024) was a Brazilian pianist and bandleader, and one of the artists who carried bossa nova and samba to audiences around the world. Early in his career he played alongside Antonio Carlos Jobim, and in the mid 1960s he formed the group Brasil '66.

Their debut album gave them their first hit with this very song, a cover of Jorge Ben's "Mas Que Nada" sung in Portuguese with bright, breezy vocal harmonies. Decades later Mendes recorded it again with the Black Eyed Peas, introducing the tune to a whole new generation. He remains one of Brazil's most beloved musical ambassadors.

Vanessa da Mata is one of Brazil's most beloved singer-songwriters, known for her warm voice and her blend of MPB (Popular Brazilian Music) with pop, soul and reggae. Born in 1976 in the small town of Alto Garças, in the state of Mato Grosso, she taught herself music while growing up on a rich mix of Brazilian classics and international sounds. Over the 2000s she became a household name in Brazil, and she has since won a Latin Grammy Award and published her own novels.

"Boa Sorte / Good Luck" comes from her 2007 album "Sim" and is a duet with the American musician Ben Harper. She sang the melody to him over the phone, and he answered her Portuguese verses in English, giving the song its striking bilingual back and forth. The single reached number one in both Brazil and Portugal and opened the door to her international career.

João Pedro Gonçalves and Pedro Leitão are the Portuguese-language singers behind this version of "Un Poco Loco," a song from the soundtrack of Disney and Pixar's animated film Coco (2017). In the Portuguese release, João Pedro Gonçalves, a male singer, voiced the song for Miguel, the film's young hero who dreams of becoming a musician. He performs the upbeat, mariachi-flavored number during the movie's lively talent-show scene, with Pedro Leitão joining in. The track mixes Portuguese verses with playful Spanish phrases like "un poco loco" and "mi amor," matching the film's Mexican Day of the Dead setting.

NAPA is a Portuguese indie pop and indie rock band from Madeira, known for blending heartfelt lyrics with modern, melodic sounds.

Formed in 2013, the group first gained attention with their early releases before evolving their style and switching to Portuguese lyrics, which brought a more personal and authentic feel to their music. Their breakthrough came with the song "Deslocado", which won Portugal’s Festival da Canção and represented the country at Eurovision 2025, gaining international attention and viral popularity.

With influences ranging from classic rock to contemporary indie, NAPA creates music that captures themes of identity, nostalgia, and belonging.

Wanessa, born Wanessa Godói Camargo on December 28, 1982, is a Brazilian pop singer and songwriter from Goiânia, Brazil. She is the daughter of the famous sertanejo singer Zezé Di Camargo, and she launched her own career as a teenager in the early 2000s. "Sem Querer" appears on her self-titled 2002 album and became one of her best-known early hits, a heartfelt pop ballad about apologizing to someone she loves after an unintentional mistake. Over her career Wanessa has moved between romantic pop and dance music, becoming one of Brazil's most recognizable female pop voices.

Manu Bahtidão is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, born Emanuella Tenório Rocha in Major Izidoro, in the state of Alagoas. Although she was born in the northeast, she built much of her life and career in the Amazon state of Pará, where she became a leading voice in tecnobrega and Brazilian pop.

She broke through nationally in 2023 with "Daqui Pra Sempre", her Portuguese version of Loreen's hit "Tattoo", recorded with Simone Mendes. The song topped charts across Brazil and turned her into one of the country's most streamed artists. Known for her powerful voice and high energy live shows, Manu blends the party spirit of brega with heartfelt, crowd pleasing songs about love and resilience.

"Maria Joana" is a 2023 collaboration between Nuno Ribeiro, the duo Calema, and the celebrated fado singer Mariza, released by Warner Music Portugal. The song blends Portuguese fado with African, Latin, and Romani-inspired sounds, telling a story of leaving home and longing that many Portuguese listeners recognize. Mariza is one of the most acclaimed fado voices in the world, while Calema, brothers António and Fradique Mendes Ferreira with roots in São Tomé and Príncipe, are known across the Lusophone world for their warm pop hits. Together with songwriter Nuno Ribeiro they turn the ache of "saudade" into a bright, danceable anthem.

Vitor Kley is a Brazilian singer-songwriter from Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil, born in 1994. He picked up the acoustic guitar at the age of nine, was writing his own songs by ten, and recorded his first album while still a teenager.

He broke through nationwide in 2017 with the sunny, feel-good single "O Sol," which topped Brazilian radio and became one of his signature songs. Known for his warm, acoustic-pop sound and catchy, upbeat melodies, Kley has earned two Latin Grammy nominations.

António Zambujo is one of Portugal's most celebrated voices, a singer who has gently reinvented fado for a new generation. Born in 1975 in Beja, in the southern Alentejo region, he grew up surrounded by the area's rich choral tradition known as Cante Alentejano and fell in love early with the great fado voices, above all Amália Rodrigues. He first trained on the clarinet as a child and won his first fado contest at just sixteen.

His warm, understated style blends fado with jazz, bossa nova and Brazilian music, and it has earned him awards at home and Latin Grammy nominations abroad. This song comes from his album Cidade, written and composed entirely by fellow Portuguese musician Miguel Araújo, who also joins him on the track.