Pilar Homem de Melo
Pilar Homem de Melo ( born July 5, 1963 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese singer, who appears under her stage name Pilar.
She lived from 1975 to 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, where she began to write songs. From 1982 to 1985 she studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1988, she took EMI - Valentim de Carvalho under contract, and in 1989 released their first album, produced by Wayne Shorter. In 2000, she moves to the record company Zona Música mute, where they released their next two albums.
In 2011, they announced a new album. So far, their music was marked by poetic, soulful - light songs between jazz, modern pop music and the tradition of singer-songwriter, however the instrumentation of initially reduced -acoustic to be electronically varied later.