The Legendary Tigerman started out as a one-man band project, where he would accompany his singing with guitar, harmonica and drums alone on stage.

Furtado's musical career began in the late 1980s as the lead guitarist and songwriter in the Portuguese psychobilly band Tédio Boys.

In 1999, after leaving Tédio Boys, Furtado founded the Coimbra-based blues rock outfit Wraygunn, in which he plays lead guitar and sings alongside Raquel Ralha.

While working with Subotnick Enterprises, he released the follow-up, Fuck Christmas, I Got the Blues (2003) and the remix compilation In Cold Blood (2004).

Following this, he switched to EMI to produce his fifth solo album, Femina, a record about women, which featured collaborations with female singers including Asia Argento, Peaches, Lisa Kekaula, Becky Lee, Phoebe Killdeer, Cibelle, Maria de Medeiros.