Antonio Chainho

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Antonio Chainho

António Dâmaso Chainho (born January 27, 1938 in São Francisco da Serra , a municipality in the district of Santiago do Cacém ) is a Portuguese composer and is considered a master of the Portuguese guitar .

Life

Initial phase

Chainho 1962 during radio recordings (right, sitting)

As a child, he listened to fado on the radio in his father's cafe , who played Portuguese guitar in his spare time. In 1960 Chainho was called up for military service. During this time he was in Lisbon where he played the Portuguese guitar in public for the first time. He was then posted to the Portuguese colonies from 1961 to 1963 .

He was stationed in Beira (Mozambique) , where he appeared on the radio and completed a concert tour through the overseas province of Mozambique for the military. After his return he moved to Lisbon in 1965 and became a guitarist in various Fado bars, such as A Severa , A Toca or the O Faia by Lucília do Carmo . He accompanied some of the most important fadistas of his time, both live and during recordings, including Alfredo Marceneiro , Hermínia Silva , Carlos do Carmo and his mother Lucília do Carmo.

He released his first record in 1966 , an EP entitled Guitarradas . For the next 25 years he accompanied the singer Carlos do Carmo on tours through Europe, Brazil, Japan and the USA together with the guitarist José Maria Nóbrega .

Second phase

After the Carnation Revolution , he also accompanied musicians outside of fado in the 1970s and 1980s, such as Tonicha , José Cid and José Mário Branco . Since the 1980s he no longer plays regularly in fado bars. In addition to accompanying concerts for Carlos do Carmo and Frei Hermano da Câmara , he worked with José Afonso, among others . Significant was his work with Rão Kyao on 3 of his albums ( Fado Bailado 1983, Estrada da Luz 1984 and Danças de Rua 1987). Here he came into contact with music from other styles and cultures, which inspired him in his future work.

In 1974 he opened in Cascais , the Fado Local O Picadeiro , another with two Fadistas. In 1977 he recorded his album António Chainho: Guitarra Portuguesa . He also occasionally produced recordings of fado singers, such as Mísia (1991) or Camané (1982).

Third phase

Marta Dias and António Chainho

The 1990s were marked for Chainho by his solo career and his work as a composer. He released a number of solo albums. A Guitarra e Outras Mulheres (German: "The guitar and other women") from 1998 should be mentioned here in particular . Through his work on the Red Hot + Lisbon project (1998), he met Andrés Levin , who wrote the album for produced him. It appeared during a period of renewed interest in Fado and sold 20,000 copies (platinum status in Portugal). Various guest singers sing his compositions here, in addition to young names such as Ana Sofia Varela and Marta Dias , including Teresa Salgueiro from the Madredeus group and Nina Miranda from the British trip-hop group Smoke City .

In 2000 he turned to the music of Brazil and recorded the album Lisboa-Rio . Subsequently, he was invited by Adriana Calcanhotto for her tour of Portugal, and Maria Bethânia asked him to attend concerts in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo . José Carreras invites him on stage for his concert in the Pavilhão Atlântico in Lisbon .

In 2010 he combined the sounds of Portugal and India in his LisGoa project . For the future he promises his first conventional fado album, an album with fado songs, composed by him and traditionally performed by fado singers, accompanied only by his Portuguese guitar and a classical guitarist.

reception

Today he is one of the internationally most cited guitarists and composers for the Portuguese guitar and is often referred to as the “master of the Portuguese guitar”.

He never seems to have a nostalgic, but always contemporary relationship to music. In the 1960s he accompanied well-known fadistas in fado bars such as Lucília do Carmo and Maria Teresa de Noronha . He also arranged Hey Jude from the Beatles for Fadista Carlos Bastos as Fado in the 60s and accompanied Rão Kyao in the 1980s when he “sang Fado” on his saxophone. In more recent times he has played with singers as diverse as Tereza Salgueiro or kd lang . He has recorded with both the eccentric electro tribal rock band Blasted Mechanism and the London Philharmonic Orchestra .

He is known for his willingness to experiment, most recently with the LisGoa project, where Indian and Portuguese sounds and musicians come together in the spirit of Goa .

Discography

When recording the live album in 2003 at the Centro Cultural de Belém
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Cumplicidades
  PT 2 13/2015 (9 weeks)
  • Guitarradas 1966
  • Guitarra Portuguesa 1980
  • The London Philharmonic Orchestra 1995
  • A Guitarra e Outras Mulheres 1998
  • Lisboa-Rio 2000
  • António Chainho e Marta Dias ao Vivo no CCB 2003 (also DVD)
  • LisGoa 2010

literature

  • Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da música em Portugal no século XX, AC , 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010. Pages 278–280.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As cumplicidades orientais de António Chainho ( Memento of March 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.kaufmannshaus.de/Altes_Kaufmannshaus/Spielplan_2011.html,unten (link not available)
  3. ↑ António Chainho ( Memento from January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Travel guide to Lisbon and surroundings ( Memento from March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Atlantic Waves 2007 ( Memento from June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://timeout.sapo.pt/news.asp?id_news=3770
  7. ↑ TERESA SALGUEIRO ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ António Chainho “LisGoa” (Portugal / India) ( Memento from 20110519154315)
  9. ↑ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3mxjb_we-blasted-mechanism-feat-antonio-c_music
  10. ↑ http://fonoteca.cm-lisboa.pt/cgi-bin/info3.pl?6714&CD&0
  11. ↑ http://www.portugalforum.org/threads/grandes-mestres-da-guitarra-portuguesa.20261
  12. ↑ Novo disco de António Chainho: LISGOA ( Memento from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Chart sources: PT
personal data
SURNAME Chainho, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chainho, Antonio Dâmaso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese composer and master of the Portuguese guitar
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Sao Francisco da Serra