Sitting in an armchair imperial in the middle of the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon, Elza Soares is the diva that large part of the audience of the second, and last day of the festival Vodafone Mexefest want to hear. The hair and the lips purple combine well with the charisma of this survivor. The black dress extends through a kind of roots that cover the stage, remember that this is a woman with almost eight decades of life well-rooted in the history of brazilian music. It is the very one who proclaims: "I want to sing until the end. Let Me sing until the end".
Despite spending all the show sitting in his armchair, Elza Soares manages to get your energy to the audience. There’s plenty of you in strength of spirit that you lack of strength in the legs. "Good night my people is really cool. I want to hear the noise to." ordered the arrival with his husky voice. And the public made him to will.
Are the struggles of his life that give body to this soundtrack. Born in the slums of a Beautiful Woman, in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of a laundress and a laborer and amateur musician, was forced to marry by her father when she was 12 years old. To the 13 already was a mother. When he sang on Radio Tupi, at age 16, caused strangeness by its thinness and fragility. They asked him what planet is the vineyard, and the girl Elza replied, "The planet of hunger."
Of the seven children that had lost four in tragic circumstances. It was also devastated with the death of one of their ex-husbands, the legendary Garrincha, with whom he was married fifteen years. Elza would be the victim of alcoholism, the footballer and the violence he caused.
The call for more strong that the artist made in the Coliseu dos Recreios directed to all the Portuguese women: "Enough of suffering silently. Have to shout. Moaning only in pleasure. Report", urged before singing Maria da Vila Matilde, a song against domestic violence – the moment of greatest delight among the audience.
Elza Soares came to Portugal to present the disk the Woman at The End of the World, winner of the Latin Grammy for Best Album of Brazilian Popular Music, the first in more than half a century of career only composed of unreleased. In the studio, as on stage, the artist is accompanied by a set of musicians from the São Paulo absolutely outstanding. The group is led by a rio de janeiro, Guilherme Kastrup, the producer of the album.
The sound of Elza Soares was not crystallized in time. Percussion, keyboards, drums, electric guitar, and it all adds up to a rock mestizo which forces the body to gingar to the sound of the samba muscled.
In the 70′s, he began to work in Europe and in the USA but, in the 80s, he was ready to give up the career. It was Caetano Veloso who convinced her to continue.
The rights of women, the liberation of sexual – "Nails nailed into a trance latejo / clothes thrown on the floor / legs open, I hold my in a kiss / suffocation, the after," in To Fuck – are some of the themes of the music of Elza. Also the rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people) and the fight against racial discrimination are their flags. "The meat cheapest of the market is the black meat" shoots in the song The Flesh.
The show counted with the participation of the singer and dancer Ruby in Benedita, which followed one of the most quiet, Rogue.
Before offering to the public Back Up and Feeling in the encore, the lights went down as if the artist were to return to this planet from where it came, and heard-if Me: "I Carry my mother with me / in a way that I don’t know to say / take my mother with me / that he hath given me his own being".
Rehearsing her Portuguese accent, the singer has found the epithet right for the Portuguese: "we highly secure". And, if Elza teaches that, when life goes wrong, there is only one thing to do… "get up, shake off the dust / And make a comeback!", it was with the same optimism that farewell Vodafone Mexefest. "This is only the beginning. There’s a lot of good stuff ahead."
The concert of Elza Soares no Coliseu dos Recreios was a rare historical moment of the consecration of a diva that, in almost 80 years of life, managed to win the timelessness and imposing a hoarse voice, not always musical, which is a mix of pain and determination.
This edition of the Vodafone Mexefest showed that the festival and its spectators, are increasingly set to Liberty Avenue and to the various spaces of concerts. Sometimes, these are the artists that seem to be absolutely settled with the dynamics of the public who enters and exits as the music calendar for each one.
The concerts surprise at the Largo de São Domingos, Jorge Palma on Friday and António Zambujo on Saturday, have been a winning bet for the opening to new audiences. Within doors, the highlight is the debut of the refurbished Cine-Teatro Capitol, in Parque Mayer.
fans of hip-hop and R’n’b watched the great concert of Talib Kweli or Gallant. While fans of independent rock had Jagwar Ma or Kevin Morby. The closure was made by Branko (ex-Buraka Sound System). It was beautiful the party. And not even the rain ruined it.
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