Paulo Mendonça

Paulo Mendonça is a Swedish funk guitarist songwriter and composer of Portuguese origin. He has released five studio albums and one live album, the first three in the 1990s [1][2] as a performing artist and sold more than 250.000 copies and as a songwriter he received 8x platinum awards.[3] In 1996 he particiapted at the Montreux Jazz Festival.[4] He toured with Tina Turner among others. In 2008, he collaborated on Jeff Scott Soto's album, Beautiful mess. In 2010 Mendonca worked on several songs on the HURTS Album "Happiness" as a guitarist and background vocalist.[5] In 2013, he released Does anybody wanna funk? which featured the song Birds and the bees, a moderate success in Sweden[1] and Germany [6]

He was one of the first musicians ever to collaborate with the Swatch Group to provide tunes for its Melody line of wristwatches. His latest collaboration with Swatch is the PAULO MENDONCA-11 PM model, from the Winter 2013 collection. In 2017 he co-wrote the song "Funky Song"[7] for the polish singer Margaret.

Discography

Albums
Year Album Peak positions Certification
SWE
[8]
1991 Respect My Aim
1993 Different Phases
1995 11 PM
2013 Does Anybody Wanna Funk? 19
2013 Live From Pama Studio1
2019 Mindcontrol

Singles
Year Single Peak positions Album
SWE
[8]		 NED
[9]
1994 "If You Want My Love" – 49

Discography and certifications as songwriter

A discography of songs written and/or produced by Paulo Mendonca.

YearSongArtistAlbumLabelCertifications
2007"Officially Yours"Craig DavidTrust MeAtlantic/Warner Music UKUnited Kingdom (BPI): Gold
2009"The last Words"Kevin BorgThe Beginning' Sony BMGInternational Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI): Gold

References
  1. Lönnberg, Lars (22 April 2013). "Funk för folket ("Funk for the people.")". FRIA TIDNINGEN (Sweden) (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  2. BlueDesert.dk: Paulo Mendonça discography
  3. "Paulo Mendonca ab sofort bei K-ENT – 8x Platin, made in Sweden! | K'ENT MEDIA Mangement Label Publishing" (in German). 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  4. "Paulo Mendonça Setlist at Montreux Jazz Festival 1996". setlist.fm. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  5. Hurts - Happiness (in German), retrieved 2023-02-08
  6. "Paulo Mendonca mit neuem Album 'Does Anybody Wanna Funk' im März 2013 | Burning Music". 20 February 2013.
  7. Margaret - Monkey Business (in German), retrieved 2023-02-08
  8. "SwedishCharts.com Paulo Mendonça discography page". Swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
  9. "Dutchcharts.nl Paulo Mendonça discography page". Dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2013-04-12.


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