Pedro Abrunhosa

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Pedro Machado Abrunhosa (born December 20, 1960 in Porto ) is a Portuguese jazz and pop musician and author.

Life

Until 1988

Abrunhosa comes from a family of amateur musicians; In 1971 he received organ lessons at the famous music school of the Ruvina music trading company in Porto, which was founded in 1917 . From 1976 he studied music analysis , composition and music history at the Escola de Música do Porto (with Álvaro Salazar and Jorge Peixinho ), and from 1978 double bass (with Adriano Aguiar ). From 1981 to 1984 he taught there himself, and in the meantime also gave music lessons at elementary schools. In the meantime he continued to learn double bass with Alejandro Oliva and studied composition at the Conservatória de Música do Porto (graduated in 1984).

He then accepted an invitation from the Spanish orchestra Grupo de Musica Contemporanea de Madrid , which performed all over the Iberian Peninsula . At the same time, he has dedicated himself to jazz since the early 1980s. He took part in workshops with musicians such as Billy Hart , David Liebman , Todd Coolman , Jack Walrath and played in various formations, including a self-formed quintet and then a septet. He accompanied various musicians on their European tours, including Boulou Ferré , Elios Ferré , Ramon Cardo , Frankie Rose , Vicent Penasse , Tommy Halferty . He taught double bass at the Hot Clube de Portugal in Lisbon, and in 1985 he co-founded the jazz school Escola de Jazz do Porto , where he also taught and composed for their jazz orchestra.

Since 1988

From 1988 to 1991 he directed the Cool Jazz Orchestra , which he founded and for which he arranged. The group reinterpreted rhythm and blues standards and gained some fame in the greater Porto area as a live band. The experiences made in this way moved Abrunhosa to found his first group with his own compositions in 1989 under the name Pedro Abrunhosa ea Máquina do Som ( Portuguese for Pedro Abrunhosa and the sound machine ). They recorded a demo that caught the attention of Carlos Maria Trindade , the then A&R of the Portuguese PolyGram .

After the recordings in 1993, with the former James Brown saxophonist Maceo Parker as a guest musician, Abrunhosa reorganized his group, and the album Viagens (port .: Reisen) was released in 1994 under the name Pedro Abrunhosa e os Bandemónio (play on words Banda , Portuguese for band, and Pandemónio , Portuguese for chaos). From then on, Abrunhosa appeared with sunglasses, often idiosyncratic headgear, and his own stage gestures , and cultivated a cold, rebellious gesture that was directed against the political climate of the Cavaco Silva government. The album garnered considerable attention in Portugal with its pop sound, heavily influenced by acid jazz , funk , hip-hop and trip-hop , and American Billboard magazine featured Abrunhosa on the front page in December 1994. The second album Tempo (port .: time) was released in 1996 with English and Spanish versions and a remix version, and received some attention, especially in Brazil, where u. a. Elba Ramalho and Zeca Baleiro subsequently added songs by Abrunhosa to their repertoire .

In 1999, Silêncio (port .: silence) was released, the third album, with increasing emphasis on the lyrics, and with influences from house and other emerging dance music styles. This album was also very successful in Portugal. Abrunhosa also played the male lead in Manoel de Oliveira's film Der Brief (orig .: A Carta ) in 1999 , alongside Chiara Mastroianni . The film won awards at the Cannes Film Festival , but Abrunhosa was still unable to make a breakthrough internationally. In Portugal, on the other hand, it strengthened its position as a major player in the music industry. This was followed by other albums, most of which reached the top positions of the sales hit parade, such as his last album in 2007, Luz (German: light), recorded in the previous formation .

At the end of 2009, Abrunhosa separated from his long-time companion band Bandemónio . From then on he played with new musicians, the Comité Caviar (German: Caviar Committee), who were supposed to support him in his change of direction to a more rocky style of music. His subsequent publications and concerts from then on showed less soul and jazz influences, and in return, greater proportions of traditional rock styles. The album Longe (dt .: Fern), released in 2010 with the Comité Caviar , reached number 1 on the Portuguese sales charts, where the album stayed for 70 weeks.

Abrunhosa also composed music for plays and films. He also writes columns and commentaries for various magazines in Portugal. In 2012 a collection of these self-ironic to satirical-critical articles on topics of everyday life, politics and society was published as a book under the title Crónicas (Eng .: Chronicles).

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
PT PTTemplate: chart table / maintenance / charts non-existent
2002 Momento PT10 (23 weeks)
PT
Chart entry only in 2003
2003 Palco PT7 (20 weeks)
PT
2007 Luz PT1 (12 weeks)
PT
2010 Lunge PT1 (70 weeks)
PT
2011 Coliseu PT22 (3 weeks)
PT
2013 Contramão PT2 (44 weeks)
PT
2014 Viagens PT15 (8 weeks)
PT
2018 Espiritual PT1 (... week)
Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminary / 2018PT

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1994: Viagens
  • 1996: speed
  • 1999: Silêncio

EPs

  • 1997: Tempo (Remix EP)
  • 1998: Pedro Abrunhosa

Singles

  • 1994: Lua
  • 1995: F

Video albums

  • 2005: Intimidade
  • 2011: Coliseu

bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no século XX, AC. Temas e Debates, Lisbon 2010, page 6ff ( ISBN 978-989-644-091-6 )
  2. ↑ www.acharts.us , accessed on January 1, 2013
  3. ↑ www.blitz.sapo.pt , accessed on December 28, 2012
  4. ↑ www.acharts.us , accessed on January 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Chart sources: PT
personal data
SURNAME Abrunhosa, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machado Abrunhosa, Pedro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese jazz and pop musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto , Portugal