Pimba

Pimba[1] is an umbrella term for Portuguese types or genres of music with an uptempo style and/or folk song features, corny romantic or saucy and vulgar lyrics, which was often associated with poorly educated public from rural areas and suburban poor or working-class neighbourhoods, as well as with Portuguese economic migrants living abroad who spend their holidays in their ancestors' localities across the Portuguese countryside.

The Pimba genre is characterized by humorous lyrics, usually charged with sexual metaphors (like Rosinha's, Quim Barreiros' and Toy's songs), but it can also be used to refer to singers of overly sentimental lyrics (such as Tony Carreira, Dino Meira, Mónica Sintra and Ágata) who play in local festivities across the country, usually during the Summer season, where the overly vulgar or saucy music performances were also displayed.

[14] Other names who were highly successful throughout the glory days of the genre include, Ana Malhoa and her father José Malhoa, the band Diapasão, Iran Costa, Fernando Correia Marques, Ruth Marlene, Micaela, Romana and Nel Monteiro.

[15] Actress Maria João Bastos character Liliane Marise,[16] a pimba music singer in the Portuguese telenovela Destinos Cruzados (2013/14), was so remarkable that the actress, impersonating the character, released a CD that reached first place in the Portuguese album chart and performed in Lisbon's MEO Arena in October 2013,[17] and also in Guimarães on 2 November 2013.

[18] In 1998 and 1999, the pimba music scene, at its most mediatic point, was parodied in RTP's sitcom Débora, starred by Ana Bola.

Emanuel, an icon of the pimba music scene .
Quim Barreiros , one of the earliest Pimba music artists.
Ruth Marlene, female Pimba music singer.
Portuguese actress Maria João Bastos at the International Film festival San Sebastián, Spain, on 22 September 2014.