Bárbara Tinoco: “This generation feels a huge guilt for resting and not being productive”
Born in November 1998, in Lisbon. She grew up in Sintra, in São Marcos, and is the eldest of two sisters. She was always “her grandparents’ girl”. With some, I spent a large part of the year between home and school; With the others, he spent his summer holidays.
Music runs in the family and has been part of it since she was little. She is the granddaughter of a poet and a singer. At the age of 13, he learned from his father – who owned a music store – how to play the guitar. He was six years old.
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She studied Musical Sciences at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and confesses that she doesn’t understand how her parents let her study music. He started playing live, in a bar in Bairro Alto, in Lisbon. A photograph of him still hangs on the wall of that establishment today. A “slim, clumsy girl with little talent for everything in life”.
“They paid me 40 euros for two hours of work. It was unbelievable because I could pay for my things and didn’t have to work distributing leaflets or in a call center”, he recalls.
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In 2018 he participated in “The Voice Portugal”. She didn’t turn any chairs and wasn’t selected, but she was asked to sing an original song. She did so and that audition made her known to the Portuguese. It reached the top of national radio stations. In 2023, he won a Golden Globe.
He says he “has no idea” how he turns songs into hits, but believes that an artist tries and “makes mistakes too many times”. Six years have passed and today she is a judge on the same program that rejected her as a contestant. Bárbara Tinoco is the first guest on the Geração 90 podcast.
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After cinema, television and fashion, three areas that Júlia Palha knows well, came a new challenge: carrying out a series of conversations in podcast format on SIC Notícias. ‘Generation 90’ follows the Generation 70 and the Generation 80two highly successful podcasts, authored by Bernardo Ferrão and Francisco Pedro Balsemão.
Júlia Palha thus opens the doors to the generation that grew up with the digital revolution and is anxious about the future. In ‘Generation 90’, we speak lightly of the weight that dreams and expectations carry.
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