Died Fernando Machado Soares, author of “Ballad of farewell” – Express

died Fernando Machado Soares, singer-songwriter, author of one of the most famous songs of the Portuguese song, “Ballad of farewell,” whose first stanza reads like this: “Coimbra has more charm / time to say goodbye.” Was 84 years old

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Born in 1930 in São Roque do Pico, Pico Island, Azores Fernando Machado Soares graduated in law, in Coimbra, in the 50s was there that he began to sing, a historic group which included Luis Goes, José Afonso (who lived right on their side and who continues, even today, to be compared), Fernando Rolim, Florencio de Carvalho, Antonio Brojo, António Portugal (guitars), Aurelio Kings and Mario Castro (violas).

In 1957, he recorded the disc in Madrid “Coimbra Quintet”, considered one of the most remarkable in history of Coimbra song, which was attended by António Portugal and Jorge Godinho (guitar), Manuel Pepe and Levy Baptista (viola)

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“Machado Soares made an important contribution in creating the classic fate of the transition conditions for the ballads and the ballads, the voices of José Afonso and Adriano Correia de Oliveira came to immortalize. Without the contribution of Machado Soares, surely it would have been another, different and less rich, the path of Zeca and Adriano, “reads his biography in the Fado Portal

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Fernando Machado Soares received in 2006 the Prize Tribute Amalia Rodrigues “the excellence of artistic career and dedication to others”

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