The musician Fernando Alvim, 80, who for 25 years followed viola guitarist Carlos Paredes, died Friday, told Lusa close family source.
The musician who Amalia Rodrigues invited in 1969 to record the theme Ant bossa our , Alexander O’Neil and Alain Oulman, was hospitalized.
In recent years returned to talk to him a lot, especially after in 2011 was released the double CD The Fado and the Songs of Alvim , the all-interpreted his compositions, among others, by Camané, Ana Moura, Ricardo Ribeiro, Cristina Branco, Rui Veloso, Fafa Belém, Vitorino and Carlos do Carmo.
Fernando Alvim followed and recorded, over the years, with Antonio Chaínho, Pedro Jewelry, Misia, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Filipa Pais, Isabel de Noronha, Vicente of the House, José Afonso or Manuel Freire (it is the guitar you hear in Philosopher’s Stone ), among many others.
Three years ago received the Medal of Honor of the Portuguese Society of Authors, who said at the time that it was a “form of recognition for decades of work in the service of the dignity of Portuguese music.”
For over 50 years the musician helped the others shine. In the middle of the song was, in fact, known as “the shadow”, in that accompany discreetly great figures of Portuguese music, especially Carlos Paredes. In 2011 told the PUBLIC in an interview: “. I was never very pretentious, always looked a certain modesty, follow without major juggling”
Fernando Gui San Payo de Sousa Alvim was born in Cascais, 6 November 1934. The mother played piano and habituated him since childhood, attending concerts, while his father wanted him to follow a university course.
He started his music through the cello and, as a youth, dedicated to the classical guitar study at Prof. Guitar School Duarte Costa in Lisbon, and later attended the National Conservatory Guitar Classical courses. At 21 career starts playing as an escort in amateur fado houses.
Although it is a reference within the instrumental line of fate, his interest extends to other genres such as jazz and bossa nova. As a young man becomes the Hot Club goer and promoter, first hand, the boss new program through the New Wave issued fortnightly on National Radio in the 1960s.
In 1959 then starts partnership with Carlos Paredes, who stepped stages around the world and with whom he recorded discs, participating in all creative work, helping to create harmonies and rhythmic accompaniments.
In the follow up to Carlos Paredes also account for many visits to the theater and cinema, especially the theatrical works Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba , Federico García Lorca, and, under the direction of director Paulo Rocha, movies The Green Years (1962) and Change Life (1966), among others.
Over the years, developed other activities. He has played with musicians from the Hot Club, was part of the group of the popular television show Zip-Zip musicians, founded the set of Fernando Alvim Guitars (1969), with Pedro Caldeira Cabral, António Luís Gomes and Edmundo Silva, and recorded an album with João Maria Tudela
He lived to illuminate the music of others -. particularly that of Carlos Paredes. Across the Walls discography, moreover, when we hear his genius to espraiar up by the strings of the Portuguese guitar, is almost always the viola Fernando Alvim giving you the floor. And you guess the paths.
“He did not play every day the same way, but from a certain point I began to have no difficulty in guessing his breath,” he told PUBLIC in 2011. And this , always discreet, was one of its most
