Mafalda Veiga

Portuguese singer/songwriter Mafalda Veiga was born in Lisbon on December 24, 1965. At the age of eight she moved to Spain, and at the end of her seven-year stay there her father gave Mafalda her first guitar. The talented songwriter would later describe finding "fertile soil for her words" in the instrument, a place to channel the creative energy of her early teens. A few short years later, Veiga first tasted success with her composition "Velho," which would win her first place in the Festival da Cancao in the city of Silves after her return to Portugal. Her debut record, Pás...