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Madredeus is a portuguese band. Their music combines fado influences with modern folk music.
The band's founding members were Pedro Magalhães (bass guitar), Rodrigo Leão (keyboards), Francisco Ribeiro (cello) and Teresa Salgueiro (vocals). Magalhães and Leão formed the band in 1985, Ribeiro joined in 1986. They'd been searching for a female singer, and found Teresa Salgueiro in one of Lisbon's night clubs. Teresa liked their music and agreed to join, so in 1987 Madredeus (named that because they started playing in an abbey Madre de Deus) recorded their first album, Os dias da Madredeus.
They released several albums and became very popular in Portugal, but remained relatively unknown outside the country. This changed when Wim Wenders, impressed by their music, asked Madredeus to score his documentary about Lisbon called Lisbon Story - the soundtrack gave the band international fame.
In 1997 Francisco Ribeiro and Gabriel Gomes left the band as Madredeus' style started abandoning its fado roots with the release of O paraiso.
Discography
- Os Dias da MadreDeus (1987)
- Existir (1990)
- Lisboa (1992, live in Lisbon)
- O Espirito da Paz (1994)
- Ainda (1995, soundtrack from Lisbon Story)
- O Paraiso (1997)
- O Porto (1998, live at Porto)
- Antologia (2000, a compilation of 'best of' material)
- Movimento (2001)
- Euforia (2002)
- Um Amor Infinito (2004)
- Faluas do Tejo (2005)
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