The musician José Cid receives this Wednesday the Prize Pedro Osório, which distinguishes the album “child prodigy.” In a statement, the Portuguese Society of Authors justifies the choice of singer, songwriter and musician for the album released in 2015, but also “the great success of his career on stage and in the studio.”
The award was created in 2012, in memory of the conductor and composer Pedro Osório and has monetary value of two thousand euros. The award has previously honored the likes of Pedro Abrunhosa, Ram Kyao, Jorge Palma and Janita Salomé.
“child prodigy” was released in April last year. In March this year, the author José Cid defined the album as “rocker, fighting and intervening.” “It’s an album that enters the area of conscientious objection, but taken to the rock,” he said the musician, told Lusa.
The theme that gives title to the album, ‘Boy Wonder’, takes itself as autobiographical. “The child prodigy died! / And his epitaph me … “sings Cid at some point of the song.
José Cid was born in 1942 in Chamusca. Co-founder of the Quartet in 1111, is a major contributor to the emergence of the Rock Portuguese progressive. He is responsible for several songs that are in popular memory as ‘Cai snow in New York’, ‘On the day that the king years’ or ‘My Music’. Won the Song Festival in 1980 with the theme ‘A great big love’, representing Portugal in Eurovision, where he finished seventh
The prize he lacked -. The Prize Pedro Osorio – distinguishes each year a ” name and relevant work in the Portuguese musical life. ” Will be delivered to the “child prodigy” this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Portuguese Authors Society (SPA), in Lisbon.
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