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Who are... John & Lisa Santos



        “Amália, Mulher e Povo”. From that                                        by the welcome arrival of a daughter,
        time on, the fado became part of the                                      Kyla. Looking after a family and orga-
        Duo Santos’ repertoire, featuring the                                     nising the Amateur Singing Contest
        unmistakable voice of Lisa. The videos                                    have kept John and Lisa very busy
        of the fados sung by Lisa may be heard                                    but, when they can, they want to act
        at  www.duosantos.com, along with                                         on pending invitations to perform in
        other Duo Santos favorites.                                               Portugal, Hawaii and Australia and
                                                      With Amália Rodrigues       to record over the next two years. In
          More recently, John and Lisa spent                                      August 2010, they will tour California.
        three years working for Disney, coming
        away with a Gold Medal for their art-                                        This year, 2010, to mark the occasion
        istic achievements. Later on, Disney’s                                    of their 25th artistic anniversary, Duo
        agent offered John the position of                                        Santos is releasing a double CD with
        Musical Director but, given that John                                     40 successes, including three new ori-
        and Lisa now had two children, the of-                                    ginals: “25 anos”, “Foi a música” and
        fer was deferred.                                                         “Papel de Quatro Cores”, in collabor-
                                                                                  ation with Fernando Correia Marques.
          Each of the Duo Santos’ recordings    Receiving a Gold Medal from Disney  One of John and Lisa’s most striking
        is an original, written expressly for                                     attractions is the variety of instru-
                                                                                  ments that they play and their ability
                                                                                  to sing in Portuguese, English, Greek,
                                                                                  Italian, Croatian, French, Spanish and
                                                                                  Hawaiian.


                                                                                     John and Lisa: well-matched in art as
                                                                                  in life!


                                                                                     Very best wishes!

                                                                                     José Mário Coelho
            Lisa, Mike Sargeant and John           John, Mike Sargeant, Lisa         Toronto, April 24, 2010
                                                     and José Cid in 2002
        them by José Cid, Tó Maria Vinhas, Mike
        Sergeant, Tozé Brito, José Mário Coelho,
        Filipe Neves, Fernando Correia Marques,
        Valdemar Mejdoubi, Hernâni Raposo,
        Raúl Lucas, José Pereira, Zé da Vesga,
        João Paulo, Remo, and the singers them-
        selves, John and Lisa.


          After the birth of James Manuel Santos,
        their first child, in December 2005, John
        took part in a short, North American       www.duosantos.com
        tour with the Trio Odmira. In July 2007,
        the nuclear family was increased to four                          The Santos Family 2019 - John, Kyla, James & Lisa

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