Rão Kyao
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Rão Kyao (* 1940 in Lisbon ; bourgeois: João Ramos Jorge ) is a musician, composer and singer from Portugal . He is particularly known as an interpreter of the oriental bamboo flute and as a saxophonist .
Life
Rão Kyao spent part of his youth in Macau , China , a Portuguese overseas possession at the time , where his father was doing military service. He was a student at a military school. His stage name Rão Kyao, which he adopted in 1975, comes from this period.
At the age of 19 he began his career as a tenor saxophonist and jazz musician . He lived in Paris until 1974 in order to prevent his conscription for military service in the colonies. After the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974 in Portugal, he had great success as a jazz musician. He performed at the Cascais Jazz Festival in 1980 and had great success with the live LP that was released. Also in the late 1970s he went to India for some time , where he tried to combine Indian and Portuguese music. As a result, he released his album Goa in 1979 , named after the former Portuguese possession of Goa in Portuguese India . The album shaped Kyao's further musical career.
In 1983 his album Fado bailado (dt .: danced Fado) was released, which was the first Portuguese album to reach platinum . In this album he interpreted several pieces by the fado legend Amália Rodrigues on the saxophone , in collaboration with António Chainho , a master of the Portuguese guitar .
Since then, the themes of fado , music from the Orient and northern Africa have been repeated . He made the bamboo flute his special instrument. In 2001, the CD Fado virado a nascente ( Eng .: Fado, directed towards sunrise) was released, which dealt exclusively with the origin of Fado in the Orient and North Africa. For this recording he invited several well-known traditional Moroccan musicians. The theme of Macau reappeared on his CD Porto Interior (Eng .: Inner Harbor) from 2008. He involved the well-known Chinese singer Yanan .
On his 2009 album Em Cantado (word play from encantado , German: delighted, and cantado , German: sung), he worked with various young Fado singers as guest singers, including Camané , Carminho and Ricardo Ribeiro . In 2012, Coisas que a gente sente (English: things we feel) followed, a predominantly instrumental world music album on which he a. a. dedicated a song to the Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora , who died shortly before , ( Ouvindo a Cesária , English: Cesária listening).
Discography
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Web links
- Rão Kyao at Peregrina Music
- Rão Kyao at Rate Your Music
- Rão Kyao at WOMEX
- Rão Kyao at Allmusic (English)
- Rão Kyao at Discogs (English)
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| SURNAME | Kyao, Rao |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | João Ramos Jorge (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |