She started her artistic career in the early 1980s with the group Sempre Livre, recording songs like Esse Seu Jeito Sexy de Ser and Eu Sou Free. After the group’s demise she launched a solo career, inaugurated with the album Délica (1985), featuring the hit song Natureza Humana. Her sophomore effort, Voz Azul (1987), fell back on the delicacy and beauty of the blues, with moving tracks like Voz Azul, Stoned and Não Atirem no Pianista, plus the hit Viver and Caleidoscópio, a gift from one of the album’s producers, Herbert Vianna, who had already given Dulce the song Fui Eu, which was a Sempre Livre hit. Her third album, from 1988, featured a song written by Frejat and Arnaldo Antunes (Onde Mora o Amor), a beautiful unreleased song by Cazuza (A Inocência do Prazer) and an interesting re-recording of Terra de Gigantes, by Engenheiros do Hawaii. In the 1990s, Dulce Quental split her time between looking after her daughter and studying Journalism. The holder of a degree in Social Communication, she collaborated with book reviews to newspaper Jornal do Brasil’s Caderno Idéias segment, and articles for the UFRJ’s Revista de Estudos Femininos (Female Studies Magazine). Beleza Roubada, distributed in Brazil by Sony Music, earned several nominations for the Tim Popular Music Prize. The album was also released in Portugal by the local record company Farol Música, and in Spain, on the label of the Sgae, Society of Authors and Publishers.