Carlos Paião

Carlos Paião was one of Portugal's favorite songwriters/performers of the 1980's. Although the artist did not live to see what could have been his prime years, he penned better than five hundred songs during his life as an artist, many of which became national hits. Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião was born in Coimbra in November of 1957. Though he loved and was drawn to music, his gifts were second guessed by his elders. Even after winning two awards at the Festival da Canção de Ílhavo (1978), his parents pursued the advice of experts Valentim de Carvalho and Mário Martins to f...