Lisbon celebrates the music and legacy of David Bowie’s birthday – SIC Notícias

With a career that has opened paths in the glam rock, alternative rock, electronic music, in fashion and in the visual arts, David Bowie has had several lives, from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke. He died on January 10, 2016, two days after you have completed 69 years old and have edited the album “Blackstar”.

At the time, the producer Tony Visconti claimed that the death of the musician was not different from life, “was a work of art”, and only at this point, if you realize that “Blackstar” was like a farewell letter. The album turned out to be at the top of several lists international as one of the best of the year.

The day of anniversary is marked in several cities, such as London, Tokyo, and Lisbon, where it is a debate about the route, and the cultural legacy of the artist, moderated by journalist Nuno Galopim, today in the afternoon in the Cultural Centre of Belém, where they will be film critic João Lopes, the singer Xana (Radio Macau), the former editor David Ferreira and musician David Fonseca, who prepares, for the February, edition of an album around the repertoire of Bowie, with the participation of several guests, among which António Zambujo and Camané.

Also today, in Tokyo, is inaugurated the exhibition “David Bowie is,” organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and who has been in a periplus international. The exhibition – which in may will be in Barcelona, brings together some 300 objects, photographs and documents belonging to the creator of “Space Oddity”.

In London, will take place at the O2 Brixton Academy, the concert “Celebrating David Bowie”, led by actor Gary Oldman, a friend of Bowie’s, with the participation of many of the musicians who played with him. The show has been replicated in several rooms, and in London is already sold out.

it Is in the English capital that is still on the scene, these days, the musical, “Lazarus”, from David Bowie and Enda Walsh, which had the world premiere for more than a year, in New York city, and that the musician has already prepared the patient.

Inspired by the novel “The man who came from space”, by Walter Tevis, the show is played by actor Michael C. Hall, who plays multiple themes from David Bowie. The repertoire of the show was then edited on a disk, the “Lazarus Cast Album”, released in October last year, and that includes the last studio recordings of Bowie.

in February of this year is scheduled a new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the song “Sound and Vision”, taken from the album “Low”, 1977, with the production of Bowie and Tony Visconti, and the participation of Brian Eno.

it Is in this month that will be even the ceremony of the Grammy awards, for which “Blackstar” is nominated, posthumously, for best alternative album.

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