Sara Tavares

Artistry Tavares composed in Portuguese and Portuguese-based creole languages. Although Portuguese was the main language of her songs, her repertoire includes multilingual songs mixing Portuguese with Portuguese Creole and even English in the same song.

She won the 1993/1994 final of the Endemol song contest Chuva de Estrelas (performing Whitney Houston's "One Moment in Time"), which helped her win the Festival RTP da Canção final in 1994, consequently earning a place in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, with the song "Chamar a Música" which reached 8th place.

Tavares was also known for singing the European-Portuguese version of "God Help the Outcasts" for the Disney movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which won a Disney Award for the best version of the original song. She also won a Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Portuguese Singer in 2000.

Tavares named Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin as her favourite childhood artists. particularly those of Portugal and Cape Verde. Tavares was among a group of Portuguese-born artists of African origins, that helped bring African influences to mainstream music in Portugal.

Personal life In 2021, Tavares publicly revealed that she discovered she was bisexual at the age of 24.

Death Sara Tavares died on 19 November 2023 in Lisbon, at age 45, from a brain tumour with which she had been diagnosed in 2009.

Legacy The song Pé de choro by Huca, which competed in Festival da Canção 2024, is a tribute to Tavares.

Discography Sara Tavares & Shout (1996) Mi Ma Bô (1999) Balancê (2006) Alive! in Lisboa (2008) Xinti (2009) Fitxadu (2017)