Tonicha
Encyclopedia
Tonicha is a Portuguese
Popular music
/ folk
singer. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971
, with the song "Menina do alto da serra
" ("Girl fom the country mountain"); she finished ninth.
Portuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....
Popular music
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...
/ folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
singer. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971
Eurovision Song Contest 1971
The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the sixteenth Eurovision Song Contest and the first held in Dublin, Ireland. The new voting system that was introduced in this Eurovision did have one big problem: some juries gave fewer points out than others...
, with the song "Menina do alto da serra
Menina do Alto da Serra
Menina do alto da serra , also known in Portugal just as Menina and for this reason sometimes entitled Menina , was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed in Portuguese by Tonicha....
" ("Girl fom the country mountain"); she finished ninth.
Discography
- Vários-Fala do Homem Nascido (1972)
- Folclore (1973)
- As Duas Faces de Tonicha (1974)
- Canções de Abril (conjunto e coros) (1975)
- Conjunto e Coros (1975)
- Cantigas do meu País (1975)
- As Duas Faces de Tonicha (1975)
- Cantigas Populares (1976)
- Cantigas Duma Terra À Beira Mar (1977)
- Ela Por Ela (1980)
- Foliada Portuguesa (1983)
- Regresso (1993)
- Canções d' Aquém e D'Além Tejo (1995)
- Mulher (1997)
- Canções Para Os Meus Netos (2008)
- Cantos da Vida - Colecção Vida (2008)