Adriano Correia de Oliveira
Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira (born April 9, 1942 in Porto , † October 16, 1982 in Avintes ) was a Portuguese composer and singer of the protest song and Fado de Coimbra .
biography
He grew up in a traditional and Catholic winemaking and baker family. In 1959 he began to study law at the University of Coimbra . There he developed pronounced sporting activities, especially in volleyball , where he was appointed to the national team. He was also culturally involved in various music and theater groups at the university, and increasingly also politically. Influenced by a roommate of his república , the traditional student flat-share houses in Coimbra, he began to sing Fado de Coimbra .
In 1960 he recorded his first record . From 1961 he discovered the poetry of Manuel Alegres . After a year at the Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon , he returned to Coimbra , where he moved to the República Rás-Te-Parta , which was already home to political activists. In 1963 he joined the banned student union ( Movimento Sindical Estudantil ). Dissatisfied with the conformity of student traditions, he began to sing about current social problems with traditional song forms. In the same year he released the EP Trova do Vento que Passa ("Wise of the Passing Wind"), with texts by Manuel Alegre and music by António Portugal. The title track in particular had developed into an anthem for the student movement after the first student crisis in 1961/1962. The record was the first that could be assigned to the protest song in repressive Portugal of the António de Oliveira Salazar dictatorship, and it marked a new development in Fado de Coimbra, which now also assumed critical tones.
Oliveira now also adapted traditional folk songs, and between 1964 and 1970 he sang student ballads accompanied only by a guitar, which set him apart from the traditional Fado de Coimbra. In 1966 he married and moved to Lisbon, where he resumed his law studies. From 1967 to 1970 he had to interrupt his studies again in order to meet the conscription of his country, which became increasingly entangled in the Portuguese colonial war since 1961 . He was stationed in a cavalry regiment in Santarém , where a later protagonist of the Carnation Revolution , Captain Salgueiro Maia , became his instructor. After his military service, he took up his law studies again, but finally dropped out to accept a job in the press office of the Lisbon fair Feira Internacional de Lisboa . He stayed there until the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, after which he devoted himself exclusively to music, now freed from censorship and repression. His 1975 album Que nunca mais ("Auf that never again") was characterized by a variety of styles that was new to Oliveira. With the participation of musicians such as Júlio Pereira , Carlos Paredes or Vitorino , and with influences from blues , rock and traditional Portuguese and African music , the album became a commercial success and was named Artist of the Year by the British music magazine Music Week in 1975 .
In his next recordings he turned particularly to folk songs and reinterpreted them. He had already joined the Communist Party of Portugal ( Partido Comunista Português ) as a student . After the bourgeois camp had prevailed within the revolution since November 1975, Oliveira's disappointment with the development of Portuguese society increased. In 1979 he was involved in the founding of the Cantar Abril artists' cooperative ("singing about April", meaning the revolution), but was excluded in 1981 with only two dissenting votes (by the singer Carlos do Carmo and the poet Manuel Branco). One of the reasons was that the tenth part of the fee he had not paid, as provided for in the cooperative's statutes. He subsequently joined the cooperative Era Nova ("New Era") of José Mário Branco , Sérgio Godinho a . a. on. Increased by private and family problems, he became increasingly addicted to alcoholism . He also failed to adapt to the demands of a professional professional singer. In 1982 he died of an esophageal hemorrhage in his mother's house.
Discography
Albums
- 1967: Adriano Correia de Oliveira (ORFEU XYZ 104)
- 1969: O Canto e as Armas (ORFEU STAT 003)
- 1970: Cantaremos (ORFEU STAT 007)
- 1971: Gente de aqui e de agora (ORFEU STAT 010)
- 1973: Fados de Coimbra (compilation)
- 1975: Que nunca mais (ORFEU STAT 033)
- 1980: Cantigas Portuguesas (ORFEU STAT 067)
- 1982: Memória de Adriano (compilation)
- 1994: Obra Completa (7CD box, retrospective)
- 2007: Adriano Aqui e Agora - O Tributo SL 1177-2 (CD + DVD, tribute project by various musicians)
Singles & EPs
- 1960: Noite de Coimbra [Fado da Mentira / Balada dos Sinos / Canta Coração / Chula] Atep 6025
- 1961: Balada do Estudante [Fado da Promessa / Fado dos Olhos Claros / Contemplação / Balada do Estudante] Atep 6033
- 1961: Fados de Coimbra [Canção dos Fornos / Balada da Esperança / Trova do Amor Lusíada / Fado do Fim do Ano] Atep 6035
- 1962: Fados de Coimbra [Minha Mãe / Prece / Senhora, Partem Tão Tristes / Desengano] Atep 6077
- 1963: Trova do vento que Passa [Trova do Vento que Passa / Pensamento / Capa Negra, Rosa Negra / Trova do Amor Lusíada] Atep 6097
- 1964: Adriano Correia de Oliveira [Lira / Canção da Beira Baixa / Charama / Para que Quero Eu Olhos] Atep 6274
- 1964: Menina dos Olhos Tristes [Menina dos Olhos Tristes / Erguem-se Muros / Canção com Lágrimas / Canção do Soldado] Atep 6275
- 1967: Elegia [Elegia / Barcas Novas / Pátria / Pescador do Rio Triste] Atep 6175
- 1968: Adriano Correia de Oliveira [Para que Quero Eu Olhos / Canção da Terceira / Sou Barco / Exílio] Atep 6197
- 1968: Rosa de Sangue Atep 6237
- 1971: Cantar de Emigração Atep 6400
- 1971: Trova do Vento Que Passa nº2 Atep 6374
- 1972: Lágrima de Preta Atep 6434
- 1972: Batalha de Alcácer-Quibir Atep 6457
- 1973: O Senhor Morgado Atep 6542
- 1974: A Vila de Alvito Atep 6588
- 1976: Para Rosália Atep 6604
- 1978: Notícias de Abril [Se Vossa Excelência ... / Em Trás-os-Montes à Tarde] KSAT 633
literature
- Salwa Castelo-Branco "Enciclopédia da música em Portugal no século XX, L – P" Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, ISBN 978-989-644-108-1
Web links
- Adriano Correia de Oliveira at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco "Enciclopédia da música em Portugal no século XX, LP" 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, page 926
- ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco "Enciclopédia da música em Portugal no século XX, LP" 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, pages 925-927
- ↑ http://fado.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=67&lang=en
- ↑ http://macua.org/biografias/adrianooliveira.html
- ^ Adriano Correia de Oliveira ( Memento of November 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Oliveira, Adriano Correia de |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese singer and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | postage |
DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1982 |
Place of death | Avintes |