Died Hugo Ribeiro, the sound technician who recorded Amália – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

he also Worked with Alfredo Marceneiro, Simone de Oliveira and António Variations. Had 91 years. Valentim de Carvalho was your home

The sound technician Hugo Ribeiro, who recorded some of the most prominent names in Portuguese music of Amália Rodrigues, died on Saturday in Lisbon, at the age of 91, said to the Lusa source close to the family.

Hugo Ribeiro always worked in the studios of the sound of the label Valentim de Carvalho, having recorded the most varied names of Portuguese music, including Amália Rodrigues, the artist whom he greatly admired.

“Like Amália rodrigues [Rodrigues] there is no one, not only by the voice and personality, as by the artistic endeavour,” said the sound technician in an interview to Lusa.

Hugo Ribeiro, in a cycle dedicated to the singer, organized by the Portuguese Association of Friends of Fado, in 2009, in Lisbon, revealed the stories of the recordings, since the dinner, organised by the singer to the recording sessions at Teatro Taborda in Lisbon, as in the Valentim de Carvalho studios, Paço de Arcos, on the outskirts of the capital.

One of the stories that he told was the microphone fake that placed front of the Amalia, doing the singer believe that this was who recorded his voice when he was a the other more distant to grasp, the one that justified “given the strength and extension of voice”.

in This cycle, “Amália to sing 70 years ago”, Hugo Ribeiro had also recorded many of the trials of her “on the sly, but because of its quality and interest, it was inevitable,” he said.

Amália Rodrigues in several interviews pointed to the work of Hugo ribeiro, having stated that “in no part of the world recorded better than in Portugal”.

Ribeiro recorded also, the album The fabulous Marceneiro (1961), considered by critics as a musical of the best albums of Alfredo Marceneiro.

The singer, told Hugo Ribeiro, took time to accept the challenge of writing in Paço de Arcos, justifying that “the ares were other”, and not from Lisbon, but the technician had already exceeded the whim of the singer who did not want to write of day because “there was a lot of light.”

“I came me to him, and asked him for license to the cachené which he had always, and with him, hsin tien city her eyes, and said to him: ‘now already is the night, everything is dark’”, she told us in one of the many interviews that he gave.

In 2014 Hugo Ribeiro received the Special Prize of the Jury, the Amália Rodrigues Foundation. The jury then chaired by Fernando Machado Soares, explained the distinction, stating that at various times Amália Rodrigues stated that “no one shot better,” the voice of the Hugo Ribeiro.

“sound Technician, professional, knowledgeable, committed, has the respect of all who with it worked, and all he wanted to write… Hugo Ribeiro was the man who brought to us the wonderful sound and only that voice that enchants us, makes us dream and feel the Portuguese: Amália,” said the jury.

in Addition to Amalia, Hugo Ribeiro recorded a significant number of Portuguese voices such as Simone de Oliveira, Fernando Farinha, Max, Maria Teresa de Noronha, António Calvário, Carlos Ramos, Celeste Rodrigues, Fernanda Maria, Lucilia do Carmo, Madalena Iglésias, Tony de Matos, Rui de Mascarenhas, António Variations, Paulo de Carvalho, Artur Ribeiro, Marco Paulo, among many others.