Eugenia Melo e Castro, born Maria Eugenia Meneres de Melo e Castro (Covilha, June 6, 1958) is a Portuguese singer-songwriter. 　　Eugenia was born in the city of Covilha, central inland Portugal, in 1958, and lived in the city until she was 14. She left the city for studying in Lisbon. Her father, Ernesto de Melo e Castro, is a poet, professor and textile engineer (Bradford, United Kingdom) who earned a doctorate in literature from the University of Sao Paulo, and her mother Maria Alberta Meneres, was a writer. Her grandfather, a chemical engineer, was a noted entrepreneur in the important textiles industrial sector of Covilha. Her grandfather Ernesto was a conductor, composer and violinist. Her first contact with the professional musical scene came through collaborative works for Jose Afonso, Vitorino and Sergio Godinho, among others. Eugenia studied and lived in different locations during her teen-years, and when she was 21, already divorced and mother of a girl, she went to Brazil in order to pursuit her desire of being a singer-songwriter. She maintains houses in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and in Portugal.