Tony Carreira



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One advantage of sitting around in the coffee shops and restaurants in Sydney’s “Little Portugal” is that you soon learn which Portuguese singers are coming to perform in Australia.

Due next April is a huge name in contemporary (well, sort of) Portuguese pop, Tony Carreira. He will be performing at the Melbourne Pavilion on Saturday April 23, 2016, and at the Clancy Auditorium at the University of NSW in Sydney the following afternoon (April 24).

My first introduction to Portuguese pop music was via a bargain bin of CDs at some hypermarket on my first visit to Portugal as an adult some seven years ago. The were called “Disco do ano” (discs of the year) although sometimes the year was not specified. They seemed to consist of the same stable of artists trotting out the same simple cheap and cheerful cheesy pop songs – tolerable but certainly not cutting-edge stuff. Still, you have got to start somewhere.