Cuca Roseta began her musical career by singing in her church choir; she then became a rock singer after being recruited by her friend Tiago Bettencourt to the group Toranja during her teenage years.
[3] In 2006, Roseta competed in RTP's Festival da Canção with the song "As Minhas Guitarras",[4][5] and in 2007 she appeared in the Goya Award-winning film Fados by the Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura.
[9] After this initial encounter, in which Roseta was not aware of the Argentine producer's identity,[3] she had to wait four years to record the album due to Santaolalla's busy schedule.
[12] The 2015 album called Riû brought together several genres and many significant figures of world music such as Bryan Adams, Djavan, Ivan Lins, Zeca Afonso, Dorival Caymmi, Júlio Resende, Sara Tavares and Jorge Drexler.
The album contains several original songs by Roseta and compositions by artists Pedro da Silva Martins, Jorge Fernando, Carolina Deslandes, Hélder Moutinho and Mario Pacheco.
[20] In December 2020 Cuca Roseta released the album Meu (in English: Mine), with all the themes written and composed by her, which is unprecedented in the fado genre.
[30] In April 2021 she sang Lisboa inspira, the official anthem for Lisbon European Sports Capital 2021, composed by herself, at a ceremony attended by the Minister of Education of Portugal Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, and the coach of the Portuguese national soccer team Fernando Santos.
[31][32] At the end of the same month she was invited by the Spanish flamenco musicians Daniel Casares, guitar, and Jorge Pardo, flute and saxophone, to present their project called Supertrío in a performance at the Teatro del Soho in Málaga.
In 2014 Bryan Adams photographed five Portuguese female singers, including Cuca Roseta, which appeared in covers for Vogue Portugal,[37] and were presented in the "Exposed" exhibition at the Cascais cultural center.
[43] Cuca Roseta's style incorporates influences form jazz, bossa nova, and world music,[44] but maintaining the purity, minimalism and simplicity of traditional fado and emphasizing narrative and meaning.
She partnered with the Automóvel Clube de Portugal to release the single "We'll all safely get home", which she performed at the 2013 gala of the International Automobile Federation.
[55] During February 2021 she gave the "Music with hope" series of concerts for health professionals fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, a joint initiative with Hyundai Portugal.