Musician Chico Buarque starts a series of concerts in Porto to present the show “Que tal um samba” in Portugal, which also includes concerts in Lisbon and “promotes a tour of the works of decades” also by the writer.
Chicu Buarque takes the stage at Pavilhão Rosa Mota in Porto this Friday and Saturday, and on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd at Campo Pequeno in Lisbon.
The singer-songwriter returns to Portugal to present “Que tal um samba”, a show which, according to the show’s promoter, “promotes a tour of Chico Buarque’s many years of work, which brings together compositions not previously performed for a long time and more recent”.
Brazilian singer Monica Salmaso will take part in the show.
By 17:00 on Thursday there were still a few tickets for the concerts in Porto. Seats in Lisbon sold out in three days.
The musician has already performed several times in Portugal, the last of which in June 2018, in a series of six concerts, presenting his 23rd studio album “Caravanas”, released in 2017.
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, 78, with a musical career spanning over five decades, also excels in the world of literature as the author of novels, short stories, poetry, plays and children’s books with titles such as “Roda Viva”. , “Gotha d’Agua” and “Opera do Malandro”, “The Yellow Riding Hood”, “Benjamim” and “O Irmao Alemao”.
Chico Buarque was recently in Portugal to receive the Camões Award for which he was awarded in 2019.
For the jury of the Camões Prize, the greatest literary award in the Portuguese language, Chico Buarque was chosen because of his “contribution to the cultural formation of different generations” and the “multifaceted nature” of his work, poetry, theatre. and romance, which has established itself as “the fundamental landmark of the culture of the modern world.”
At the handover ceremony of Camões on April 24 in Sintra, Chico Buarque dedicated the award to “so many humiliated and insulted authors” in “the years of stupidity and obscurantism”, recalling that “the fascist threat persists in Brazil and a little around the world.” Part”.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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