Viviane Parra

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Viviane Parra (born May 14, 1972 in Nice ) is a Portuguese pop and fado singer. She appears under her first name Viviane , which is sometimes referred to as Vivianne .

Life

Born on May 14, 1972 (other information 1968) in the French port city of Nice, she was very interested in music, stimulated by her older brother's passion for music. Especially chanson singers like Juliette Gréco , Serge Gainsbourg , Édith Piaf and others. a. was her interest, while her Portuguese mother preferred Amália Rodrigues . She made her first appearance as a singer at the age of 11 in her hometown, supporting the fado singer Carlos do Carmo . From then on, she aspired to a career as a singer. At the age of 13 she moved to Portugal, to the port city of Faro in the Algarve .

In the summer of 1990 she founded the pop band Entre Aspas (In quotation marks) with Tó Viegas , which released a number of albums and achieved some notoriety in Portugal. They are still considered to be one of the most important pure pop groups in the country. In parallel with the band, Viviane participated in various projects. She was part of Linha da Frente , a project founded in 1999 on the 25th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution , which released an album in 2002, and which became the follow-up project A Naifa in 2004 . Viviane was no longer involved, she had meanwhile started her solo career.

In 2005 her first solo album was released. Entre Aspas were a pure pop band that only showed slight influences from French pop music and chanson towards the end, whereas Viviane turned more clearly to the traditions of chanson and later also fado in her music. In 2009, she participated in the tribute project Rua da Saudade (Eng .: Street of the Saudade ) for the poet and Fado poet Ary dos Santos (1937-1984), in which she was one of the four singers of the project (next to the Brazilian Luanda Cozetti and the fado singers Mafalda Arnauth and Susana Félix ).

On her 2011 album As pequenas gavetas do amor (English: The small drawers of love), she set, in addition to her own compositions, to music . a. Poems by Fernando Pessoa , Vasco Graça Moura , and Eugénio de Andrade . Guest musicians were Entre Aspas - co-founder Tó Viegas, Linha da Frente - fellow campaigner Luís Varatojo, and the fado singer António Zambujo , a. a. With its reduced, acoustic instrumentation and its intimate atmosphere, the album was in the tradition of jazz and chanson, but also of fado, especially through the increased use of the Portuguese guitar . It was presented by the public radio station Antena 1 .

Viviane Parra now lives in Lisbon.

Discography (albums)

solo

  • 2005: Amores Imperfeitos
  • 2007: Viviane
  • 2010: As pequenas gavetas do amor
  • 2013: Dia Novo

Projects

  • 2002: Linha da Frente: Linha da Frente
  • 2003: Camaleão Azul: O Sul (tribute project for the poet Fernando Cabrita)
  • 2009: Rua da Saudade: Canções de Ary dos Santos (tribute project for the poet Ary dos Santos)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.artistlevel.org ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2009 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 October 20, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / artistlevel.org
  2. ↑ www.myspace.com/vivianeparra under Biography, accessed on October 20, 2012
  3. ↑ www.sabado.pt  ( 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 October 20, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sabado.pt  
  4. ↑ www.blitz.sapo.pt  ( 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 October 20, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / blitz.sapo.pt  
  5. ↑ ditto
  6. ↑ www.viviane.com.pt , accessed October 20, 2012
  7. ↑ www.lastfm.pt , accessed on October 20, 2012
  8. ↑ Official sticker on the CD, ZipMix Records / Fnac 2011
personal data
SURNAME Parra, Viviane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viviane (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice , France