About Us

António de Brito was born in Lisbon. He was self-taught on the guitar, sang and played a lot with friends. 1978 - 1980 he played with the folk group "A Plebe" in Portugal at various festivals, in theaters and in the Casa do Marinheiro etc. In 1981 he came to Berlin to study law, which he dropped out of.

He played Portuguese and Brazilian folk music in various restaurants. In October 1981 he sang in the restaurant Casa Portuguesa for the famous fado singer Amalia Rodrigues and in the Portuguese center for the "Weinlesefest".
In 1986, he sang and played with the famous percussionist Zito Ferreira for almost a year. He later recorded his first CD "Pr'òs Amigos" with him. After that, he performed countless concerts with him: Klangbilder der Welt, at the House of World Cultures, ICEP Poland in Warsaw and many more.

In the mid-eighties, he established himself in Berlin's Portuguese community as a fado singer. He regularly sings and plays in almost all restaurants and events associated with Portugal. With the Portuguese Tourist Office and Olimar Flugreisen, he tours all over Germany in various "workshops" about Portugal and tourism fairs.

At the end of 2001 he founded the group "Fado incorporated" with Maria Carvalho, Rui Batista and Daniel Pircher and the "Prata da Casa" with all the amateur fado singers in Berlin. They sang in "Max und Moritz" and in the Werkstadt der Kulturen, among others. In the film "Abendland" by Fred Kellemann, he sings the song "Lágrima" by Amalia Rodrigues. He continues to sing in Portuguese restaurants, open-air festivals and organizes the annual musical performance of the 25th of April (Portuguese Revolution Day 1974). In homage to the great folk singers José Afonso, José Mario Branco, Sergio Godinho and many others.

Ivo Guedes was born in Porto, Portugal. Ivo started his music career at the age of 14 when he learned to play the keyboard, guitar and bass on his own. He only discovered his love for the Portuguese guitar four years later and to this day he devotes most of his attention to this delicate instrument. As a sought-after virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, he has already worked with fado greats such as Ana Lains, Filipa Sousa, Teresa Tapadas and Joana Veiga. For the theater production "Fado=Schicksal" Ivo was invited to participate as a Portuguese guitarist in the 2009-2010 season at the Stadttheater Gera. In addition to his constant projects, he is also on the road as a bassist with Beatpakk throughout Germany and internationally. He has regularly accompanied Trio Fado as a guest musician since 2012.

Composer, singer, overtone singer, player of the classical and Portuguese guitar, founder of "O.Ton Projekt" and "extravagante", founding member of "Trio Fado". Concerts worldwide, amongst other in the Berlin Philharmonie and in various philharmonics in Russia.
He learned the art of overtone singing on his own, in 1998 which gained more and more importance in addition to his career as a guitarist and singer.
His overtone singing became the concert highlight of every concert of his ensembles "Trio Fado" and "extravagante".
For the 2013 movie "Night train to Lisbon" with Jeremy Irons and Christopher Lee, he composed an instrumental for Portuguese guitar, and also worked as a soloist. He sang and recorded the title song for the film "Der Tote in der Brandung", which was released in 2018.
In 2022, he received a scholarship for modern classical music and composed various pieces for string trio and overtone singing.


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