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Ary dos Santos was also an active political campaigner. Ran the length and breadth of the country, sometimes alone before thrilled audiences with his unique way of saying poetry, sometimes in organized sessions for popular structures in which also participated in the intervention singers who, like him, through music and words, tried to interpret the feel of an entire people.
Too often these sessions were interrupted by the arrival of the repressive forces, but next week or next month were all there, again, available for another session, another journey.
Political commitment Ary was already since the 1960s, and takes with particular emphasis since 1969. At this point, part of the campaign of the Democratic Electoral Commission and is affiliated with the Portuguese Communist Party ( PCP ).
My word said in the light of the setting sun
His spoken word was also sung. Ary dos Santos was the author of poems for some of the most memorable songs ever presented to the Eurovision Song Contest, to the point that some of them have survived the test of time and still emerge as true icons of a generation, by how fearless dared in time of dictatorship, addressing issues taken by taboo, or inconvenient, or even provocative.
Everything always anchored in a sensitive lyrical but powerful. Competes, pseudonymous, the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the poem "Desfolhada" (http://youtu.be/abTyMNrWfs4). The music is by Nuno Nazareth Fernandes and interpretation was done by Simone de Oliveira.
No, mainly because of the provocation of current morality contained in the verse "Quem Faz Um Filho Fá-lo Por Gosto" without some scandal to the mix. The "Desfolhada" reaches the top spot.
Music, edited disk, appears on radio, television and in shows throughout the country. Ary return to place winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971, again with Nuno Nazareth Fernandes, with Tonicha interpret "Menina"(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chh-lPnPvf0).
Returns in 1973 and 1977, with musical compositions and interpretations of Fernando Tordo, first with "Tourada" (http://youtu.be/LbZLQjrB0No), again a provocation, and then with "Portugal no Coração".
Throughout his life he wrote over 600 poems to songs and collaborated with many composers, like Nuno Nazareth Fernandes, Fernando Tordo, who made one of the most creative double the Portuguese song, but Alain Oulman, José Mário Branco, Paulo de Carvalho or António Victorino de Almeida.
Ary not despised fado and wrote some great poems, later interpreted by most relevant Portuguese fado singers.
Began with "Desespero", played by José Manuel Osorio. From an invitation of Alain Oulman writes in 1968 the poem "Meu Amor, Meu Amor" will be played by Amalia Rodrigues. Followed by songs like "Amendoa Amarga", "Alfama", "Rosa Vermelha", "O Meu é Teu" and "O Meu Amigo Está Longe"
Themes such as "Estrela da Tarde", "Lisboa, Menina e Moça" or "Os Putos" played by Carlos do Carmo, with music by Fernando Tordo and Paulo de Carvalho, are examples of the degree of popularity of poems Ary dos Santos together the public.
Your name is attached to a disc, also the singer Carlos do Carmo, which marked the history of fado. This is " A man in the city," 1977, designed entirely with poems by Ary dos Santos.
The same format is applied to the album "Um Homem no País", published in 1984, with the letters of the poet music by various composers.
The music of Ary dos Santos passed from generation to generation as a valuable family heritage and today, artists like Mariza, Camané, Pedro Moutinho and Mayra Andrade, singing poet.
In 2009, they passed 25 years of his death, the project "Rua da Saudade", Mafalda Arnauth, Susana Félix, Viviane and Luanda Cozetti, revived some of the songs Ary. The name evokes the place on the walls of Castelo São Jorge, where Ary dos Santos resided.
Lived almost all his life in Nr 23 Rua da Saudade, where there is a tombstone evocative poet. Died January 18, 1984, a victim of cirrhosis.
His name was given to a wide of the Alfama district. Ary dos Santos lived for that, "because we are equal, let us not forget."
Ary dos Santos, a name, a figure that will never be erased from the collective memory.
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Ary dos Santos was also an active political campaigner. Ran the length and breadth of the country, sometimes alone before thrilled audiences with his unique way of saying poetry, sometimes in organized sessions for popular structures in which also participated in the intervention singers who, like him, through music and words, tried to interpret the feel of an entire people.
Too often these sessions were interrupted by the arrival of the repressive forces, but next week or next month were all there, again, available for another session, another journey.
Political commitment Ary was already since the 1960s, and takes with particular emphasis since 1969. At this point, part of the campaign of the Democratic Electoral Commission and is affiliated with the Portuguese Communist Party ( PCP ).
My word said in the light of the setting sun
His spoken word was also sung. Ary dos Santos was the author of poems for some of the most memorable songs ever presented to the Eurovision Song Contest, to the point that some of them have survived the test of time and still emerge as true icons of a generation, by how fearless dared in time of dictatorship, addressing issues taken by taboo, or inconvenient, or even provocative.
Everything always anchored in a sensitive lyrical but powerful. Competes, pseudonymous, the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the poem "Desfolhada" (http://youtu.be/abTyMNrWfs4). The music is by Nuno Nazareth Fernandes and interpretation was done by Simone de Oliveira.
No, mainly because of the provocation of current morality contained in the verse "Quem Faz Um Filho Fá-lo Por Gosto" without some scandal to the mix. The "Desfolhada" reaches the top spot.
Music, edited disk, appears on radio, television and in shows throughout the country. Ary return to place winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971, again with Nuno Nazareth Fernandes, with Tonicha interpret "Menina"(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chh-lPnPvf0).
Returns in 1973 and 1977, with musical compositions and interpretations of Fernando Tordo, first with "Tourada" (http://youtu.be/LbZLQjrB0No), again a provocation, and then with "Portugal no Coração".
Throughout his life he wrote over 600 poems to songs and collaborated with many composers, like Nuno Nazareth Fernandes, Fernando Tordo, who made one of the most creative double the Portuguese song, but Alain Oulman, José Mário Branco, Paulo de Carvalho or António Victorino de Almeida.
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| Ary dos Santos - portuguese poet |
Ary not despised fado and wrote some great poems, later interpreted by most relevant Portuguese fado singers.
Began with "Desespero", played by José Manuel Osorio. From an invitation of Alain Oulman writes in 1968 the poem "Meu Amor, Meu Amor" will be played by Amalia Rodrigues. Followed by songs like "Amendoa Amarga", "Alfama", "Rosa Vermelha", "O Meu é Teu" and "O Meu Amigo Está Longe"
Themes such as "Estrela da Tarde", "Lisboa, Menina e Moça" or "Os Putos" played by Carlos do Carmo, with music by Fernando Tordo and Paulo de Carvalho, are examples of the degree of popularity of poems Ary dos Santos together the public.
Your name is attached to a disc, also the singer Carlos do Carmo, which marked the history of fado. This is " A man in the city," 1977, designed entirely with poems by Ary dos Santos.
The same format is applied to the album "Um Homem no País", published in 1984, with the letters of the poet music by various composers.
The music of Ary dos Santos passed from generation to generation as a valuable family heritage and today, artists like Mariza, Camané, Pedro Moutinho and Mayra Andrade, singing poet.
In 2009, they passed 25 years of his death, the project "Rua da Saudade", Mafalda Arnauth, Susana Félix, Viviane and Luanda Cozetti, revived some of the songs Ary. The name evokes the place on the walls of Castelo São Jorge, where Ary dos Santos resided.
Lived almost all his life in Nr 23 Rua da Saudade, where there is a tombstone evocative poet. Died January 18, 1984, a victim of cirrhosis.
His name was given to a wide of the Alfama district. Ary dos Santos lived for that, "because we are equal, let us not forget."
Ary dos Santos, a name, a figure that will never be erased from the collective memory.
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