In May 2013, five friends with a passion for music gathered for a small performance at a Soiree in Coimbra. It was Os Quatro e Meia’s first performance.
Currently the band consists of six elements – João Cristóvão Rodrigues (violin and mandolin), Mário Ferreira (accordion and voice), Pedro Figueiredo (Percussion), Ricardo Liz Almeida (guitar and voice), Rui Marques (bass) and Tiago Nogueira (guitar and voice).
Based on the idea that "all days are good days, but some are harder than others", the band appropriated a recurring expression of their daily life, "P'ra Frente é Que É Lisboa", to create their first single. The debut album – "Pontos nos Is" – was released on June 30, 2017, with the Sony Music Portugal label, and went directly to the top spot in the national sales chart.
In 2022 the band played the biggest concert of their career, so far, at the Cidade de Coimbra Stadium, on June 25. They were also a part of the line-up one of the largest summer festivals in the country: NOS Alive and announced a concert in Lisbon’s biggest indoor venue: Altice Arena, for 2023.
