Gonçalo Tocha found Dina sandwiched between Julio Iglesias and Tintarella di Luna a collection of Reader’s Digest . And we write that found because that Dina rocker was not the singer that anyone born in the 1970s knows by heart the heydays of the Song Festival. Torch, a passionate assumed and prospector from unknown singers albums, enthusiast of a B-side in the history of popular music, was fascinated with the song crazy bird and a Dina facet which referred, after all, this alternative story that did not work.
the enthusiasm was so great that his duo popular Tochapestana music sought Dina to ask you a blessing to the version of crazy bird they wanted to include in the album Modern Music . “I had never imagined that would meet Dina one day,” confesses torch in a conversation with three PUBLIC and singer in a cafe in Alfornelos, close to the voice home fresh water Love . “I called him to talk with her and had hoped that our meeting went well we could be lucky enough to her to participate in the song.”
Dina (Ondina Veloso of his name) was not exactly count on singing on his side, it was before “superencantada for malta this age know the crazy bird and want to rerecord it.” “I inchadinha, proud and liked their logo by the way I approached.” But before the intention of Tochapestana to take her to the studio, had to warn torch to their physical limitations resulting from pulmonary fibrosis that away from the stage. “It’s screwed up for speaking, let alone singing,” laughs Dina. But the ease with the duo was so instantaneous that pulled their best rock female voice and recorded the theme at first, surprising himself up with his performance. “I was very grateful,” recalls the singer. “For three days I breathed so well …”
Dina would later pass to Gonçalo Tocha album Dynamite – single successor Zany Bird / Love without warning . Again, Torch there heard only a proportional grandeur injustice of his off place in the pantheon of Portuguese music, and coming into contact with the work of the singer beyond firmed songs in the popular imagination, the musician and filmmaker was realizing that Dina had withdrawn the stage without a well-deserved moment of celebration and honor. Deprived of his voice on stage the great protagonist, Torch joined a mob of singers – Ana Bacalhau (Deolinda), Marcia Samuel Úria, B Facade, Alex d’Alva, Da Chick, Catherine Salinas (Best Youth), Mitó ( a Naifa) and Tochapestana own – in concert this Tuesday in Lisbon (São Luiz Theatre) and Thursday in Porto (Rivoli) mark the closure of Dina career
not by chance. the show is entitled Dynamite . The self-titled album, released in 1982, had the task of presenting Dina beyond the “girl in blue jeans, vest and guitar” like herself describes, that the country had surrendered two years before by winning the festival with Saved me . “ Dynamite would be my statement as a singer and songwriter,” recalls Dina. “But it was even a painful thing. Did not want to festivals, I wanted to dedicate myself to the album, and suddenly, without being taken or found, I see three songs submitted to the Song Festival, they qualify two and killed the album. I could not mix things up and my first album could not go there. “ Dynamite would be reduced, the ears of the public, the I like your taste, to lose festival for the duel between the (winning) Sweet with Well good , and Cândida Branca Flor, with Exchanges and baldrocas .
“ I like your taste , “says Dina,” was a fresh fruit, a very light song “he had composed in Bulgaria and only by António Pinho’s insistence earned a letter, as the author imagined as instrumental . “On top is a song turns but tiring as everything,” he says. “But does not reveal the disc.” Rather than draw attention to the different records that Dynamite explored and wanted to shed new light, more comprehensive, on the nature of Dina as composer and performer, the song that the radio course laid his hand was limited to confirm it as the singer of the festivals, voting the rest of the album to oblivion and leaving Dina deeply hurt by the whole process. “And it’s worth it,” said torch. “I think if the album had been heard at the time, it had been a landmark of the time, because she was a woman composer to do everything, the great rock to funk. It is a very powerful album, with attitude. “
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