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Toy (António Manuel Neves Ferrão) is a popular Portuguese singer born in Setúbal on 19 February 1963. Is one of the most recognised singers in Portugal with 50 years of career and many awards.

Childhood and adolescence
He started his career at 5 years old at a local party, and at 10 years old he entered a local theatre group where he started to perform. After he concluded his studies, he immigrated to Germany where he has been there 8 years. There he worked as a mechanic, but he also worked as a producer, played Portuguese guitar, was the vocalist on a jazz group and integrated a German band called Prestige in that country they release singles with the themes “Mini Saia” and “Berlim”.

Career
In 1985 edited, in Portugal, the single “Dias de Paz” with the publisher company Radio Triunfo, in the same year he published the single “Depois de Ti”. In the next year, he wrote three songs, “Portugal Sonhado”, “Tanto Mel Tanto Amor” and “Lembro-te” for the album “Sedução” of Marco Paulo. In 1988 he composes the music “Tu És tudo para mim” for Jose Alberto Reis.

In 1988 he returns to Portugal and starts to use the artist name “Toy” and publish the single “Mulher Latina” with the publishing company Transmédia, in the next year he published another single called “Mãe (três letras de saudade)”.Simultaneously, he made various participations in tv and radio programs and with several spectacles in countries like South Africa, Canada and various European countries and developed with the publisher company several projects with artists.

In 1990 he made an LP “Por Ti” with ten new themes. That year he participated in the “Festival RTP da Canção” festival which chose a Portuguese representant for the Eurovision Song Contest and he stayed in 3rd place. After his good performance at the “Festival RTP Canção”, in 1991 he signed a five-year contract with the publishing company Valentim, which is one of the most famous publishing companies in Portugal. In that year he launched the singles “E Até Quando” and in 1993 the album “Quem é Quem”. The compilation launched in 1996, “Todos os sucessos” include the theme “Champanhe e Amor” version of the music “Na Cabana Junto À Praia” of the famous Portuguese singer José_Cid and “Chama o António” that is until now one of the most famous music of him. Meantime he made more themes for tv programs, for example, “Buéréré” and the program “1,2,3”.

In 1997 he changed to Espacial publishing company, “Aguenta-te com Esta” was the first theme that he published with Espacial and the next year he published “Estupidamente Apoixonado” another huge success and one of the most recognised songs of Toy, this year he also participated in the tv show Ri-te, Ri-te has a residential Jury/ from Televisão_Independente.

In 2000 he presented the new theme “Tu foste o grande amor” when he showed a more romantic facet, in that year he was invited to be the musical director of the tv show Tic-tac Milionário of TVI and was the author of the generic of the Portuguese street “Olhos de Agua”.

In 2002 he launched an album “Eternamente Teu” that contained the song “És tao sensual” another big success, in that year SIC_(Portuguese_TV_channel) realises the tv program “Na Casa do Toy” which showed the life of Toy. In the next years, he published two albums “É só Sexo” and “Eu sou Português” and in 2007 he recorded his show on Coliseu_dos_Recreios in the formats of CD and DVD. He recorded some of his old themes on the disc “Recordações” again and in 2009 recorded again another disc called “Recordações 2” with a special duet with Simone_de_Oliveira in a new version of the songs “Quando” and “Lado a Lado” of Roberto_Carlos_(singer).

In 2011 Toy launched another recordation disc and in 2012 he participated in tv show “A Tua Cara Não Me É Estranha” from TVI. Two years after he edited “Enquanto estou vivo” and “Um Amor Especial- Ao Vivo”.

In 2017 he presented the theme “Coração Não Tem Idade (Vou Beijar)” from the album “Coração Não Tem Idade”, in the autumn of 2018, the theme reached 28º place in the Portuguese single, something unprecedented due to the style of the music.

In 2021 he launched the single "Isto é Paixão" and participated as a resident artist in the tv program “Somos Portugal” and as a commentator in the tv reality show in 2021 and 2022.

discography

 * Dias de Paz / Voltei A Ser Eu - Single - Orfeu/Rádio Triunfo - 1985 [como António Ferrão]
 * Depois de Ti / Tina - Single - Ovação [como António Ferrão]
 * Mulher Latina / Uma Vez Mais - Single - Transmédia - 1988


 * Mãe (três letras de saudade) / Anabela - Single - Discossete - 1989 - DSG635
 * Mãe (três letras de saudade) - LP - Discossete - 1989 - LP635
 * Por Ti - LP - 1990
 * Mais e Mais / More And More - Single - Discossete - 1990 - DSG - 691


 * E Até Quando / Sentimental Vou Ficar - Single - VC/EMI - 1991
 * Anjo Vingador - LP - EMI - 1992
 * Quem é, Quem é? - LP - EMI - 1993
 * Champanhe E Amor - EMI - 1996
 * Todos Os Sucessos - EMI - 1996
 * Chama o António - Série Caravela - CD - EMI - 1997


 * Aguenta-te Com Esta - CD - Espacial - 1997
 * Estupidamente Apaixonado - Espacial - 1998
 * Tu Foste o Grande Amor - Espacial - 2000
 * Eternamente Teu - Espacial - - 2002
 * Na Casa do Toy - Som Livre - 2003
 * É Só Sexo - Espacial - 2004
 * Sou Português - Espacial -2005
 * Romântico - Espacial - 2005
 * Grandes Êxitos - EMI - 2006
 * Directo Ao Coração Ao Vivo - Espacial - 2007 [CD e DVD]
 * Recordações - Espacial - 2008
 * Recordações 2 - Espacial - 2009
 * Recordações 3 - Espacial - 2010
 * Exitos - Espacial - 2011
 * Enquanto estou vivo - Espacial - 2012 - réf.:/ 3800370
 * Um Amor Especial - Ao Vivo (CD+DVD) - Espacial (2014)
 * Coração Não Tem Idade - Espacial - 2017
 * Verão e Amor( Cerveja no Congelador)- Espacial-2020
 * Isto é Paixão - 2021

External conexions
Página official

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2089149/

https://www.infopedia.pt/apoio/artigos/$toy

https://media.rtp.pt/agoranos/artigos/toy

https://megaagencia.com/artistas/toy/