:PAPERCUTZ is a Portuguese electronic music act formed as a side project in Porto, from Portugal, that became a fully active band in 2008. Bruno Miguel is the only official member of:papercutz and solely responsible for its musical direction. After recordings, Bruno assembles a live band to perform with him which may include musicians used on studio recordings. Past musicians have included vocalists Melissa Veras, an American singer with Portuguese ascendancy born in New York and Portuguese Marisa Pinto, Marcela Freitas as well as instrumentalists Bruno Ribeiro, Nuno Sarafa and Francisco Bernardo, among others. Annie Nightingale described them as 'interesting and making an original sound' as one of the juries on the UK The People's Music Awards in 2009 where the group performed live and won the off the beaten track category. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papercutz) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)