Claudino Jesus Borges Pereira, better known by his stage name Dino D'Santiago (born 13 December 1982), is a Portuguese activist, composer, and musician of Cape Verdean descent.

[2] The neighborhood, which after the Carnation Revolution became the residence of various immigrants who came from the former Portuguese colonies, namely places such as Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, began to be demolished in 1997.

[9][10][11] In the 1990s, with the popularization of rap and hip-hop in Portugal, he was invited by local rappers in Bairro dos Pescadores to make hooks for their music.

[10] D'Santiago became more well known in 2003 when he accompanied his friend Carla de Sousa to the casting session for the second edition of Operação Triunfo, and was recorded singing to one of the cameras.

At the end of the 2000s, he formed his own group, named "Dino & The SoulMotion", and integrated that with his project Nu Soul Family, which he had been a part of for 11 years to that point.

While living in Lisbon, Madonna met D'Santiago, who introduced her to many local musicians playing fado, morna, and samba music.

He was joined by on stage with artists such as Branko, Sara Tavares, and Mayra Andrade, the other interval act featuring Caetano Veloso and 2017 winner Salvador Sobral.

[20] During the George Floyd protests in 2020, he gave a performance at Campo Pequeno in Lisbon in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

[21] In addition to his work, D'Santiago has also created the website Lisboa Criola, which, led by Bissau-Guinean activist and singer Karyna Gomes and in conjunction with the Portuguese online news organization Mensagem de Lisboa, created one of the first journalism projects to report in various types of Creole languages (in particular Cape Verdean and Guinean) in 2021.

[31][32] He won two prizes during the Cabo Verde Music Awards in 2014: Best Acoustic album for Eva and Best Batuko/Kola San Jon [pt] with the song Ka bu Tchora.

[44][45] He was again nominated by the Golden Globes that year as well for Best Interpreter and Best Music,[46][47] as well as being named as one of the most influential Black personalities in Portuguese-speaking countries on the PowerList100, created by Bantumen with support by various entities.

[50] In October 2020, the magazine Sábado reported that a concert titled "Juntos Pelo Iémen" was held on 12 September 2020 at the Capitólio in Lisbon, which was meant to be a fundraising event to raise money for Doctors Without Borders in Yemen during the civil war.

[51] In September 2021, Sábado then revealed another case which involved members of the Lisbon municipal chamber and D'Santiago, where the singer was one of the artists that later would take part in the Honors' Commission of Medina's reelection campaign.