SAT NOV 21 2015
Carminho and Sara Tavares CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Everywhere we go, it touches people’s hearts... There’s something about that feeling that’s in the moment; each one is unique and you put your emotion into it… often we have a ‘conversation of the soul.” - Carminho (Belfast Telegraph, 2013)
PHOTO: Isabel Pinto
“Fado is completely magical.
Carminho and Sara Tavares Presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Pre-show artist talk
7:00pm, Royal Bank Cinema Featuring Carminho and Sara Tavares in conversation with Ă lvaro Mendes
Concert
8:00pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall
SARA TAVARES Sara Tavares vocals, guitar Ivo Costa drums Luiz Caracol guitar, cavaquinho Hugo Aly bass Miroca Paris percussion 20 minute intermission
CARMINHO Carminho vocals Luis Guerreiro Portuguese guitar FlĂĄvio Cardoso guitar Marino de Freitas bass guitar Ivo Costa drums
Set lists will be announced from the stage.
Please remember to turn off your phones, and note that photography and recording are not permitted. Thank you!
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Sara Tavares Sara Tavares represents the new generation of Cape Verdean singers who emerged in the wake of Césaria Évora’s transglobal success, and were part of a group whose parents emigrated from the Atlantic islands off the coast of Senegal, to Portugal, in search of work. Tavares was born in Lisbon in 1978. Her father moved to the US when she was still a small child, and her mother took their children to the South of Portugal in search of work. She left Sara in the care of a Portuguese woman who raised her in a quiet, orderly, and religious house. Through her adopted mother’s church, Sara discovered gospel music. And through the radio at home, she became hooked on Motown classics and R&B songs. Waiting in the wings was the pull of Cape Verde’s root music, the mornas and coladeiras made world famous by Césaria Évora. Together, these styles laid the foundation for her distinctive music. As a teenager, Tavares founded the first Portuguese Gospel Choir in Lisbon and decided music was her destiny. Her favourite singers were Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Donny Hathaway. In 1993, she won the national TV competition, “Chuva de Estrelas” (Rain of Stars), the National Portuguese Song Contest, and entered the Eurovision Song Contest with her song, “Chamar a Música” (Call to Music). From there, a contract with BMG records brought her an EP release titled Sara Tavares and Shout. In following years, the singer moved from gospel to pop communities, and further into Lisbon’s burgeoning African and Cape Verdean music scenes. Her debut album, Mi Ma Bô (1999), was still rooted in R&B, but its producer, Paris-based African guitarist and producer Lokua Kanza, created an upbeat Afro-pop mix. It earned her a gold disc in Portugal and nomination for the Portuguese “Grammys” (Globo de Ouro) for Best Artist/New Album. Her second album, Balancê (2007), was Tavares’ international launch pad; the promotional tour took her through Europe, to Japan and the USA. The focus of her songs had shifted strongly to Cape Verdean and African music, and they were sung in Portuguese, English, Cape Verdean Creole and local street slang. A gorgeous collection, they move to rhythms rooted in the islands, in Brazilian bossa nova, Angolan semba, and smooth Sade-like grooves. Live performances by the diminutive, dread-locked singer were sensual and moving, intense and lightly funky: songs for dancing and listening, filled with moral messages and mournful choruses which showcased her extraordinary range from soaring highs to bluesy depths to exciting Creole scats.
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The album Xinti (Feel it) (2009), seemingly echoed the singer’s inner journey. More lyrical, sensual and textured, several songs are less upbeat but also include irresistibly funky rhythms drawn from the Cape Verdean/African diaspora. Themes of love – spiritual and human – include philosophical reflections which describe, says Tavares, “the soul taking flight.” Most were written on the road during the American tour, and completed in her home studio. And most were carried on waves of delicate, often complex guitar melodies. She created a trio of linked songs – “Pe Na Strada” (On the Road), a rural Cape Verdean funaná, featuring a duet between a cavaquinho (ukulele) and Tavares’ acoustic guitar; “Caminhanti” (Walk With Me), including a tantalizing vocal experiment; and “Ponto di Luz” (Point of Light), where an Indian flute (played by Rão Kyao) introduces textures appropriate to such a mystical setting.
After a brief interruption of the Xinti World Tour in 2010 for health reasons, in 2011 Sara Tavares returned with a force, starting out by winning the Cape Verde Music Awards as “Best Female Voice”. Later, she was invited by Nelly Furtado and Joss Stone to share the stage with them at their Lisbon concerts. Soon after, the Xinti tour was back to stages around the globe. In 2014, Sara Tavares and her fans celebrated 20 years of music. She has spent the last year working on a new album that will be released soon.
“Life has to go round and round, like the sea. It needs to be bubbling, compare it to a soup, you have to stir it to make it tasty. Life sometimes needs to be hard to get something pure.” - Sara Tavares 5
Carminho Born Carmo Rebelo de Andrade, Carminho was raised deep in the midst of fado. She began to sing in public when she was twelve, followed by regular appearances at Taverna do Embuçado in Alfama, Lisbon, where she learned not only from her mother Teresa Siqueira, but also from other great names of fado, true living legends of the art form. After she finished college, she realized that a significant part of her life would have to remain connected to fado. Before fully diving into a musical career, she travelled around the world, participating in humanitarian missions in India, Cambodia, Peru and Timor. After returning to Portugal, Carminho’s music became sought after by some of the greatest national stages and as well as internationally (Expo Zaragoza, Argentina, Switzerland, Malta and Thailand). She also participated in the acclaimed Carlos Saura film Fados (2007). In 2009, she released her first album Fado, considered by Time Out Lisboa as “the greatest revelation in the past ten years”. The album rapidly achieved the gold award in Portugal. Carminho then set forth on a live tour comprising 60 concerts within Portugal and Spain. Seen as a cultural icon of her generation, in 2011 she became Portuguese Ambassador of the programme “Youth on the Move”, invited by the European Commission. That same year also marked the beginning of a solid international career that took Carminho to the main stage of Womex (World Music Expo) in Denmark, as well as several gigs in the United Kingdom, France (Théâtre de la Ville), Netherlands, Mozambique and Spain. By lending her voice to the album Perdóname alongside Pablo Alborán, Carminho became the first Portuguese artist to attain the number one position on Spanish music charts. Her second album Alma, in 2012, debuted in first place on the Portuguese charts and appeared on several international music charts. At the end of 2012, after a tour comprising more than 90 concerts in Portugal and abroad, one of Carminho’s dreams came true: she recorded with Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque and Nana Caymmi, on a re-recording of Alma, featuring three brand new songs. 2013 was a year of great importance for Carminho in Brazil, including an exciting concert during the opening of Carnaval de Recife and sold out concerts in Rio de Janeiro and throughout the country. It was also a year of further international travel that brought Carminho’s voice to countries like Israel, Latvia, Germany, Luxemburg, Turkey, Angola, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, and more. The latest addition to Carminho’s discography is Canto (2014), which extends the boundaries of the deeply moving artform with strong ties to the many rhythms and sounds of Brazil.
“[Fado] represents the voice of Portugal, it is intertwined with the roots and blood of its people... There is something in the souls of people who live near the sea, stories about travelling and leaving people behind waiting for their loved ones to return. It’s about that kind of love and loneliness.” 6
- Carminho (Belfast Telegraph, 2013)
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Carminho and Sara Tavares with Álvaro Mendes Pre-show talk with the artists, moderated by Álvaro Mendes 7:00pm: Royal Bank Cinema, Chan Centre In advance of their performance, this is an exclusive opportunity to hear from the artists themselves in a moderated conversation that will touch on their respective art forms and common Portuguese heritage. Moderated by Álvaro Mendes, the host and producer of AM1320’s radio show Portugal No Coração.
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