“Sinto-te tão” (I Feel You So) is the first single from Rita Onofre’s upcoming album. This atmospheric, sensory song almost visually introduces the artist’s new era.
Rita Onofre collaborates with producer NED FLANGER to explore darker sonic depths, maintaining a sense of fragility. “Eu te sinto tão” is a plea for access to the most divine within each of us, delving into spiritual territory, almost like a prayer.
This is an important introductory track to a new universe in Rita Onofre’s career, as it sets the tone for the raw and immersive atmosphere of the album BRUTA, whose completion coincided with a major life change for the artist: emigration to Berlin.
The search is for more of the world, new and different ways of living a life dedicated to art. It is here that the final vocals will be recorded and the visual content accompanying BRUTA will be produced. This personal transition imbues the project with a new meaning, making the creation a reflection of displacement, renewal, and reinvention. The video for “Sinto-te tão” was filmed in Berlin in this way, in a joint effort by Lucas Coelho and Billy Verdasca.
Onofre’s new feature promises heavier sounds in the artist’s pop style, with influences from electronic and rock music. Composed entirely by the artist, it features the collaboration of NED FLANGER, alter-ego of António Souto, a producer and musician of the new Portuguese generation, known for his inventive approach and ability to cross musical genres without barriers.
If in “Eu te sinto tão” we get to know the first chapter of this new journey of the artist, we will – until March 18, 2026 – be able to discover more singles and songs from this BRUTA.
About Rita Onofre:
Rita Onofre is the name of the artist and composer born in Oeiras, for whom a life making music was a certainty from an early age. He picked up the guitar at age 10, influenced by his father, who intuitively decoded the guitar’s rhythms. At 12, he began writing his first songs and receiving guitar training from the teacher, singer, and composer Ricardo Reis Pinto.
At 15, he enrolled in the professional course in Music Production and Technologies at the ETIC Professional School of Image, culminating in an internship at Groove Farm studios in Rome, Italy. He took his first voice lessons with Joana Espadinha, which broadened his horizons and led him to realise that he should continue his path at the Luiz Villas-Boas Jazz School. He found inspiration and new horizons in the Artistic Studies course at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, which he completed in January 2020.
At 16, he started the SEASE project, an indie pop band with Choro and Gonçalo Vasconcelos, with whom he performed on his first stages and entered national underground radio (Vodafone, Antena 3, Oxigénio, TSF).
It was during the pandemic that he began releasing his own music in Portuguese. “Haja Sempre” (2020) was his first single, followed by others that were included in two compilations: “Ao Pé de Mim” in the Vodafone 2020 Unreleased Albums and “À Porta” in the Fnac 2021 New Talents Albums. The positive reception and support from national radio stations (Antena 3, Vodafone FM, Oxigénio, TSF, Renascença, among others) were part of the motivation to release his first short-form EP, “Raiz,” in 2021. His debut in full-length format was in February 2023 with “hipersensível.” It features ten hypersensitive songs, from the lyrics to the arrangements, from the vocals to the confessions. “Perdoei” and “Rancor” were the chosen singles.
The album “hipersensível” was preceded by a year of collaborations: in 2022 she released “Sonhar”, a duet with singer Elisa Rodrigues; “Se Eu Tenho Tempo” in collaboration with Yanagui; she participated in “Volume I”, the debut album of the Avalanche collective where you can hear “Neblina” (with Sara Cruz and Luar); and she released “CORPO” (with Choro and NED FLANGER).
All of this was the starting point for live performances at Musicbox, Casa da Música, NOS ALIVE 2023, Plano B, and Teatro Miguel Franco (Leiria).
Also in 2023, she was selected as an author for the 2024 Festival da Canção, through the open submission of songs, with the song “Criatura”, which reached the final stage of the competition.
At the end of 2024, she released two new versions of the album “Hipersensível” in a release titled “Tatuei você no peito” (I tattooed you on my chest), with new arrangements and versions of “Perdoei” (I Forgave) and “Tanto Sentimento” (So Much Feeling). It was a thank you and a tribute to the path her first full-length album provided her.
This new chapter of Rita Onofre’s life will continue to be written in 2025, with new releases of unreleased tracks, new songs, and more shows.
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