- She won a Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Portuguese Singer in 2000.
- Tavares showed great musical promise from a young age; in 1994 she won the national television song contest Chuva de Estrelas, performing Whitney Houston's "One Moment in Time". That same year, she won the Festival da Canção, that earned Tavares a slot in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest at the age of 16.
- In 2021, Tavares publicly revealed that she discovered she was bisexual at the age of 24.
- Her music was noted to feature a blending of cultures, particularly those of Portugal and Cape Verde.
- Tavares named Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin as her favourite childhood artists.
- Sara Tavares was a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist.
- Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent, she composed African-, Portuguese- and North American-influenced world music.
- Tavares was also known for singing the European-Portuguese version of "God Help the Outcasts" for the Disney movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which won a Disney Award for the best version of the original song.
- Tavares composed in Portuguese and Portuguese-based creole languages. Although Portuguese was the main language of her songs, her repertoire includes multilingual songs mixing Portuguese with Portuguese Creole and even English in the same song.
- Tavares was among a group of Portuguese-born artists of African origins, that helped bring African influences to mainstream music in Portugal.
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