The singer Beatriz da Conceição, 76, interpreter successes as Black Sheep or iconic as My body , which received in 2008 the Prize Amalia Rodrigues Carreira, died Thursday at the Hospital of St. Joseph, in Lisbon, told the Lusa a family.
“Tia Bia”, as it was known in the middle singer, was a “diva” in the form of being and authenticity of attitude. A great performer at the level of the best. And a reference to new generations. That’s how most evokes the singer born in Porto on August 21, 1939, he began singing in the 1960s, after a visit to the Solar fado house Marcia Countess in Lisbon.
In 2012, in an interview with Publico he spoke of that time and said he decided to sing after Marcia Countess to have said he would “be a great singer.” Also his muse, Lucilia do Carmo, encouraged her: “.. Oh girl, you sing your way and very well That’s what is beautiful”
The musicologist and fado historian Rui Vieira Nery does not hesitate to say that she was “one of the three or four most important figures in the history of the last fado half a century,” noting his “talent”, the “originality”, the “unique character of his art” and “great care in the choice of poets who wanted to sing, with a huge demand in the choice of repertoire, “noting that” played an important role as a model for many singers of the new generations “because” was a figure that was active until the end. “
The fado singer Helder Moutinho, who gave him a tribute of fado ( The fate of Bia ), written by Fernando Thrush, has no doubts: “If the fado as interpreter, was Alfredo Joiner, there was also a woman named Beatriz da Conceição. “Visibly moved, Canada, the singer spoke to PUBLIC by phone about his” favorite singer “, as he appoints. “It’s very hard to say what you want to be at this point, because Beatriz was like my family. It is without doubt my favorite singer ever. We work together. We were best friends. Anyway, so much to say. But it is not easy. I met her in 1993, it was she who, after all, put me to sing. And I’m not just say that. It was a remarkable interpreter. Is a huge empty. “
Camané recalls Bia, as you call it, as one of the great singers. “It is at the level of Maria Teresa de Noronha and Amalia,” he tells PUBLIC, adding that it is one of his references: “It was one of the people you would most learned because deprived lot from her, including at an early stage of my career, there 30 years. He was a person who almost taught me everything. “it considers” an incredible figure, great performer with a very unique style and a fantastic journey. “” Beatriz da Conceição is the fado, “he added.
She is a strong reference for the new generations. Aldina Duarte revealed on several occasions that it was after listening to sing it wanted to be singer. Mafalda Arnauth honored to interpreting the theme of Max White dove, white dove, and Ana Moura invited her to the stage the Opera House in 2008 to play My body, in a show that was subsequently released on DVD.
There are many successes that created, particularly in revues, such as Lisbon Bridge Color or Three Holy Cards Popular . He sang in several fado houses, as The Alley, Machado Cellar, Ninth, the Ferreiras, Tavern Embuçado and Senhor Vinho. For 50 years, he recorded his first record, an EP for RCA label, titled I went through Alfama , the subject of Guilherme Pereira da Rosa with music by Francisco Carvalhinho.
In the text of the cover of this disk could be read in a text editor, which “was young, boisterous and irreverent, like a gust of air fresh among national singer. ” Belonging to the so-called new wave of fate, this time played with the same conviction gay gender or dramatic, although it was the latter that emotion was more uplifting.
The conductor Paul Van Nevel, founder of the Huelgas Ensemble, who recorded Tears of Lisbon with her in 1996, highlighted in the text of this album, “the force contained “the singer, claiming that its interpretation is such an emotional sadness that can print poetry” even the silences between words and verses. “
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