Tuna Académica de Biomédicas was created in September 2003 by a group of students and former students of the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal. The ambition was to unite a group of friends around a tradition as unique as the Portuguese concept of “Tuna Universitária” and create an ideal of fraternity that would last for generations, always prioritizing music in order to adequately represent the concept of tuna, ICBAS and the Porto city.
Thus, in these 16 years of existence, the group has been growing, in number and in quality, currently surpassing 100 members, all students or professionals already working in Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Aquatic Sciences. Among numerous awards won in Tuna Festivals across the country and in Spain, we also organize our own festival – TABernal – which has 9 successful editions, in addition to having already held 6 European Tours, passing through countries like Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Italy, and 2 National Tours. In 2005 we launched our 1st CD – Memórias de um Tuno – which has already been published in 4 editions and thousands of copies have been sold. In 2017 we released our 2nd CD – Um Porto para o Mundo.