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Pages in category "American musicians of Portuguese descent" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
This is a list of Portuguese musicians in alphabetical order. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Hal De Forrest (born 1862, Portugal – died February 16, 1938, New York City), Portuguese-born American early silent film actor. [10] Dave Franco (born 1985), actor. James Franco (born 1978), actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer; paternal grandfather was of Portuguese descent [11] Tom Franco (born 1980), actor.
Music journalists and musicologists define Latin music as musical styles from Spanish-speaking areas of Latin America and from Spain. [10] [11] Music from Brazil is usually included in the genre and music from Portugal is occasionally included. [8] [12] Either definition of "Latin music" may be used for inclusion in this list.
Marcos Portugal (1762–1830), composer (famous for his operas) and maestro at Teatro S. Carlos in Lisbon Peter IV of Portugal (1798–1836), King of Portugal and Emperor of Brazil who was also a composer (pupil of Marcos Portugal and Nunes Garcia, as well as Sigismund Von Neucomm, a pupil of Haydn).
Following the American Revolutionary War, Portugal was the first neutral country to recognize the United States. [3] Portuguese people have had a very long history in the United States, since 1634. The first documented Portuguese to live in colonial America was Mathias de Sousa, possibly a Sephardic Jew of mixed African background. [4]
Portugal has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea, across Europe and former colonies. In the two centuries before the Christian era, Ancient Rome brought with it Greek influences; early Christians, who had their differing versions of church music arrived during the height of the Roman Empire; the Visigoths, a Romanized Germanic people, who ...
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