Rouxinol Faduncho

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Rouxinol Faduncho (Portuguese for Fadist Nightingale) is a Portuguese fictional character created by the singer and comedian Marco Horácio. He's a personification of the typical Portuguese man, similar to a Zé Povinho living in the 21st century. He had recorded two CDs of his songs, the first named "Grandes Êxitos de Rouxinol Faduncho" (Portuguese for "Rouxinol Faduncho's Best Hits"), launched in December 5 of 2005. As he "already fooled everyone with the first CD", he decided to launch a second one, named "Best On". Both CDs have songs featuring him as the singer, Paulo Valentim playing the Portuguese guitar, João Maria Veiga playing the viola and Rodrigo Serrão playing the bass guitar.

Rouxinol's character is a fado lover, a married man, although he often sings like a bachelor with a very active sexual life. He was an illegal alien that emigrated to Germany, where he sang fados in bars until he was expulsed. When he arrived to Portugal he decided to make a CD to built a house in Barcarena for him, his wife and the love of his life, the china dogs (to whom he actually made a song called Cães de Loiça, Portuguese for China dogs. He also said that each copy of his CD you buy, you're helping two china dogs). This was said to be the Portuguese disk with most illegal downloads until May of 2006.

Rouxinol sings in a very relaxed form, often using an unusual way of talking, using popular expressions and giving wrong accents to almost every word, and getting rather confused when trying to speak English (once answering "I love you too" to a girl who told him "Fuck you"). Rouxinol's songs talk about the life of an average Portuguese adult male, going from fighting with his neighbour and complaining about the fires and the government to singing the theme songs of his favourites cartoons as a kid (Abelha Maia and Dartacão).