Nuno Roque

Child Star

His mother was a music-hall performer. He made his stage debut at Coliseu do Porto at the age of three and began a successful career as a child singer in Portugal. Throughout his early years, Roque won several singing competitions and released his first album Brincar a Brincar. His main collaborator was producer Tony Lemos, founding member of Eurodance Portuguese band Santamaria. Roque's repertoire was known for employing a variety of musical styles, most notably Pop.

Theatre & Opera

In his teens, he suspended his musical career to study theatre and film in Portugal (graduated from Academia Contemporanea do Espectaculo - Escola de Artes), Brazil (where he was a student of Fabio Barreto and Augusto Boal in Rio de Janeiro) and France, where he graduated from the famous Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, studying physical theatre and other major dramatic territories, such as Melodrama, Tragedy, Commedia dell'arte, Clowning and Buffoon.

Roque's theatre credits include amongst others the first Portuguese production of The Laramie Project directed by Diogo Infante playing Matthew Shepard's killer Aaron McKinney, and C'etait Marie-Antoinette, in which he appeared with actress Natacha Regnier. Also in 2009, he appeared in Theatre du Chatelet's opera production of The Magic Flute and in Opera National de Montpellier's production of Dido and Aeneas, playing The Sorceress.

In 2011, his performance in Irina Brook's Peter Pan at Theatre de Paris was praised by Le Figaro, France Inter and Financial Times. 

Contemporary Art

On March 18, 2015, his work My Cake, was unveiled simultaneously in six European museums as part of Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture. The art film was nominated for various art and music awards.

Discography