Francisca Cortesão is a Lisbon-based musician and singer-songwriter. With Minta & The Brook Trout as the main output for her songs, Cortesão is also part of They're Heading West and children music's projects Mão Verde II, along with rapper Capicua, guitarist Pedro Geraldes (aka Lázaro) and multi-instrumentalist António Serginho (of Retimbrar) and Mais Alto!, along with musicians Inês Sousa Afonso Cabral and Sérgio Nascimento as well as writer/narrator Isabel Minhós Martins, which play versions of protest songs aimed at young audiences. Francisca Cortesão has played live and in the studio with many other musicians, including Bruno Pernadas. David Fonseca and Lena d’Água. Artists such as Cristina Branco—'Delicadeza' —, Ana Bacalhau —'Para Fora'—, and Pedro Moutinho — 'Carolina' — and have sung Francisca Cortesão's songs, one of which, 'Anda Estragar-me Os Planos', co-written with Afonso Cabral, made it to the final round of the national song festival, and was later recorded by Salvador Sobral, becoming a staple of his repertoire (even as a duet with sweet-voiced Brazilian Tim Bernardes). Cortesão and Cabral have opened a recording studio, label and booking agency in Lisbon, louva-a-deus. More music written and/or recorded by Francisca Cortesão can be heard in: some songs I wrote and some songs I recorded