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Fernanda Porto

Fernanda Porto (born on December 31, 1965) is the alias of Maria Fernanda Dutra Clemente, a Brazilian composer and singer who became famous for combining electronic music (most notably drum ‘n’ bass) with traditional Brazilian rhythms, such as bossa nova. Porto studied piano and songwriting during the 80s at the Santa Marcelina Music School in São Paulo, and spent most of the 90s writing film soundtracks. In 1999, Porto travelled to London to move closer to the drum ‘n’ bass scene. That same year, she recorded a demo that was championed by DJ Patife, whose remix of Porto’s “Samba...