Carlos Maria Trindade

Carlos Maria Trindade Pereira (born October 28, 1954 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese musician. He was a wider public as a member of groups such as Madredeus or Heróis do Mar known.

Life

After receiving lessons in recorder and violin in the Orff-Schulwerk method at the Gulbenkian Foundation's music school at the age of six , he began taking music lessons at the Conservatório Nacional (now Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema ) in Lisbon at the age of nine . In 1971 he founded the pop / rock band Soft Thurd with Paulo Pedro Gonçalves , before moving to England from 1973 to 1976 , where he studied jazz with Keith Tippett . In 1977 he completed his music studies at the Lisbon National Conservatory in piano. Between 1977 and 1980 he was engaged in improvised music . In this context, he also performed internationally, for example at the VII international mixed media festival in Belgium , at the British environmental music and music at a distance festivals, and at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid .

In 1979 he was a founding member of the new wave / postpunk band Corpo Diplomatico . After their dissolution in 1980, some band members founded the avant-garde pop band Heróis do Mar , including Paulo Pedro Gonçalves and Pedro Ayres Magalhães . The band had considerable success in Portugal and was considered an innovative pop band. At the same time, their marketing caused polemics with their overemphasis on national terms, and they flirted, a few years after the Carnation Revolution and the fall of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime, with symbolism that was partially loaded. In 1986, before Herois do Mar broke up in 1989, Trindade's bandmate Magalhães and other musicians founded the group Madredeus , which became the most internationally successful music group in Portugal.

Trindade wrote and played music, mainly experimental works, parallel to his band activities. After a first single in 1982, he released the album Mr. Wollogallo in 1991, together with Nuno Canavarro . In the same year he became A&R for the artists of the Portuguese PolyGram subsidiary until he left PolyGram in 1994 and became a Madredeus member. His work as a composer and musician of the group has remained his main occupation ever since. Under the project name Música Naïve he recently produced his own electronic music again, but is still an essential part of the band Madredeus and their renewed activities.

Trindade also worked as a studio musician, arranger and producer for other musicians in Portugal, such as Xutos & Pontapés , Rádio Macau , the Delfins and the Fado singer Mariza .

Discography (solo)

• 1982: Princesa / Em Campo Aberto (single)
• 1991: Mr. Wollogallu (LP / CD)
• 1996: Deep Travel (CD)
• 2015: Oriente (CD)

Web links

• Carlos Maria Trindade at Allmusic (English)
• Carlos Maria Trindade at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.anos80.no.sapo.pt ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 17, 2012  
2. ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX; PZ . Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, ISBN 978-989-644-114-2 , p. 1275 f.
3. ↑ Website ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the radio station TSF , accessed on September 17, 2012 
4. ↑ www.letras.com.br , accessed on September 17, 2012
5. ↑ www.marizafado.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 17, 2012