The presidency of the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR) publicly congratulated the Algarve's Dino d'Santiago for having won, this Sunday, October 2, the “Golden Globe” for best performer.
On the occasion, the interpreter dedicated the award to the EB 2,3 Dom Dinis School, in Quarteira, which he recently visited and where a new project will be implemented: SIC (Success, Inclusion and Citizenship).
Dino d'Santiago adds this trophy to a varied collection of distinctions won throughout his artistic career. He is the artist who received the most awards at the Play - Portuguese Music Awards, annual awards whose first edition took place in 2019 (Best album - Mundu Nóbo, best solo artist and critics award - 2019, Best album - Kriola, best male artist and award Award – 2021, Best Male Artist and Critics Award – 2022).
Collectively, the “Nu Soul Family” project was awarded the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Portuguese Artist in 2010, having also been nominated on other occasions for its participation in Expensive Soul. In 2020, Dino d'Santiago was nominated again for the same award, this time with his solo project.
In 2021, he was distinguished by the Municipality of Loulé with the Medal of Merit – Gold Degree.
In that year, he would still be considered one of the most influential Afro-descendants, in global terms, and placed among the most influential black personalities in Lusophony, listed in the PowerList100 created by Bantumen magazine with the support of several entities.
Last Saturday, he was also awarded the prize for Best Traditional Music (Voei de mim), at the XI Gala da Cabo Verde Music Awards (CVMA).
Dino d'Santiago is the artistic name adopted by Claudino Pereira, born in Quarteira, in 1982. Son of Cape Verdean parents, born in Santiago, he grew up in Bairro dos Pescadores, where his parents had gone to live when they arrived in Portugal. This neighborhood, which after the 25th of April revolution became the residence of emigrants from Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe to work in civil construction and tourism, began to be demolished in 1997, causing Dino went to live with his family in Bairro da Abelheira.
It would be in the Choir of the Church of São Pedro do Mar next door that he would start singing with his parents and brothers.
In the 90s of the last century, with the arrival of hip-hop in Portugal, Dino is invited by rappers who also lived in Bairro dos Pescadores to make the hooks in their songs. It is at this point that he begins to compose.
He became known in 2003, when, while accompanying his friend Carla de Sousa to the casting for the second edition of Operação Triunfo, he was heard singing by one of the cameramen. He asks Da Weasel's rapper Virgul, who was a friend of his, why he didn't apply for the casting either. He passes the selection by singing a song by the rap band Black Company and some of his originals.
It is in Operação Triunfo that he meets Ludgero Rosas who convinces him to change his stage name. Thus, Dino, who in 2008 had released a first album under the pseudonym “Dino SoulMotion”, becomes Dino d'Santiago, the name by which he is called in Cape Verde, thus paying tribute to his parents' homeland.
After participating in the contest, Dino d'Santiago dedicates himself to several hip-hop, R&B and Soul projects. He has collaborated with projects such as Expensive Soul, for which he has done choirs. At the end of the 2000s, he formed his own group, which he named “Dino & The SoulMotion”, and became part of the Nu Soul Family project – of which he was a part for 11 years, alongside names such as Virgul .
Currently, in addition to his artistic career, Dino d'Santiago is part of the jury of the television program The Voice Portugal (RTP1).
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