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 participated 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. In 2013, he released "Does anybody wanna funk?" which featured the song Birds and the bees, a moderate success in Sweden and Germany [5]
In 2017 Mendonça co-wrote the song "Funky Song" for the polish singer Margaret.
| Year | Album | Peak positions | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [6] | |||
| 1991 | Respect My Aim | ||
| 1993 | Different Phases | ||
| 1995 | 11 PM | ||
| 2013 | Does Anybody Wanna Funk? | 19 | |
| 2013 | Live From Pama Studio1 | ||
| 2019 | Mindcontrol | ||
A discography of songs written and/or produced by Paulo Mendonca.
| Year | Song | Artist | Album | Label | Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | "Officially Yours" | United Kingdom (BPI) Gold | |||
| 2009 | "The last Words" | The Beginning' | International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Gold | ||