Júlio Pereira
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Júlio Fernando de Jesus Pereira (born December 22, 1953 in Moscavide ) is a Portuguese musician.
Life
He became interested in traditional Portuguese instruments and music from an early age. At the age of seven he had already learned to play the mandolin (Portuguese: Bandolim) from his father . He began his musician career first in the rock band The Playboys (1968-1972), then in the progressive rock band Petrus Castrus (1971-1973) and finally in the hard rock band Xarhanga (1972-1974). He met José Mário Branco while recording the album Mestre in the Strawberry Studios in Paris . Under this impression, Pereira moved further away from rock music and increasingly approached traditional music.
After the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and at Branco's invitation, Pereira took over the musical direction of the piece Liberdade, liberdade (Eng .: freedom, freedom), with music by José Mário Branco and Fausto Bordalo Dias at Raul Solnado's Teatro Villaret . It was here that he began to work as a musician and arranger , which he increasingly employs from the second half of the 1970s. a. for Adriano Correia de Oliveira , José Afonso , the GAC ( Grupo de Acção Cultural ), Vitorino or Paulo de Carvalho .
In 1975 he made his first album under his own name, Bota-Fora (German: throw away). With the singer Carlos Cavalheiro he recorded songs here that dealt with colonialism , the liberation movements and the Portuguese colonial war , both lyrically and musically, with influences from African music. On his following albums Fernandinho Vai ó Vinho (German for example: Little Ferdinand, get 'wine) and Lisboémia , Pereira worked with various singers and musicians (including JM Branco, AC de Oliveira, José Afonso, Guilherme Inês, Eduardo Zé and others). He also sang himself, singing about topics of human interaction in everyday life and stories of typical characters from Lisbon. Since 1977 he has regularly accompanied José Afonso musically.
Pereira now increasingly devoted himself to traditional Portuguese folk music and traditional instruments. In addition to the Bandolim , which he has been familiar with since his youth , he has been concerned with the cavaquinho since 1979 , with which he interpreted an entire album of Portuguese folk songs in 1981, redefining and expanding its use in popular music, so that it has been a frequent occurrence since then instrument in the popular musical landscape of Portugal. Pereira was now increasingly concerned with traditional Portuguese string instruments. In 1983 he dedicated an entire album to the viola braguesa , one of the traditional Portuguese guitars, which was not as stylish as the Cavaquinho album before . In 1992 he finally dedicated an entire album to his longest known string instrument with the LP O Meu Bandolim (Eng. My Mandolin).
Since the mid-1970s, Pereira has performed frequently abroad, first with José Afonso, and later with other musicians and projects, both on stage and in the studio. In the course of his career he has worked with musicians from various countries, including Pete Seeger ( In Lisbon 1981), The Chieftains ( Santiago 1995), Carlos do Carmo , Chico Buarque , Kepa Junkera ( Lau Eskutara 1996), Sara Tavares , Tontxu and Dulce Pontes .
With the album Cavaquinho.pt , he returned in 2013 with recordings of the Cavaquinho, the instrument he is considered one of the most respected instrumentalists today. Here Pereira dedicated himself to the cavaquinho with guest musicians in the playing variants that have developed through the worldwide spread of the instrument, especially in northern Portugal, Madeira , Galicia , Cape Verde and Brazil . The album was published by the renowned Tradisom- Verlag, in an edition with a detailed book in CD format, which is bilingual (Portuguese and English) and is dedicated to the history of the instrument in musicological articles. Júlio Pereira presented the album to the public on January 7th, 2014 at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon to the attention of the media.
Discography
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Web links
- Official website (Portuguese, Spanish and English)
- Júlio Pereira at Discogs
- Júlio Pereira at Allmusic
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: PT
- ↑ www.juliopereira.pt ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 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 July 28, 2012
- ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, L – P. 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, page 985f ( ISBN 978-989-6441081 )
- ↑ Article from January 7, 2014 on the website of the public radio station Antena 1 , accessed on January 28, 2014
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| SURNAME | Pereira, Júlio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | de Jesus Pereira, Júlio Fernando (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese musician and musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscavide , Portugal |