Heróis do Mar (band)
Heróis do Mar (English: heroes of the sea ) was a Portuguese avant-garde pop band from Lisbon.
- 2.1 albums
- 2.2 Singles
History
1979-1980 (creation )
After the dissolution of the in 1977 punk rock band Os ( Fabulosos ) Faiscas (English: the ( fabulous ) flashes ) Pedro Ayres Magalhães and others founded bandmate 1979, the New Wave / post-punk band Corpo diplomático (German: Diplomatic Corps ). After the end of 1980, she founded the pop band Heróis do Mar. The name is the first words of the national anthem of Portugal (A Portuguesa ) is taken. The conscious about increased use of national symbols and concepts was henceforth a hallmark of the group, the music was characterized by avant-garde pop music. Your dazzling, well-styled appearance was essential part of her elaborate marketing concept, along with their nationalistic provocations few years after the Carnation Revolution and the fall of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime.
1981-1990 (resolution)
Your modern, New Wave, New Romantic and Portuguese musical traditions influenced pop music was growing attention, first among musicians, with performances, among others at the Rock Rendez -Vous, then the general public, thanks to their polemical band performances in videos and at concerts. 1982 reached their single Cupid platinum status and the band generated enormous publicity. They were the first Portuguese band that received a gold record, and also played international concerts, as with Roxy Music in Paris in 1982 after the release of the single Paixão (German: passion ). Called 1983 the British magazine The Face and the French Actuel they are the best band in Europe.
After several more successful releases, the band walked through a creative crisis they triggered by a subsequent longer stay there during a trip to Macau from which they came back with a new album produced. In 1988 she finally released their last album, and after a last concert in October 1989, the band released their activity 1990.
Since 1990
Except for the drummer Tozé Almeida, who founded the television film and commercial film production company Panavídeo, pursued all the band members then further musicians careers. The singer Rui Pregal da Cunha and guitarist Pedro Paulo Gonçalves formed the dance / pop project LX 90 and after moving to London, the band kick out the jams. Gonçalves founded the fashion label Pavement recycling to its customers, among other things David Bowie and Blur counted, and participated in the cloakroom of the film Velvet Goldmine. Later he returned to Lisbon, where he opened the Loja Crucifixo store. Pedro Ayres Magalhães and Carlos Maria Trindade later were the defining members of Madredeus, the most successful Portuguese music group.
2007 turned the director José Francisco Pinheira a documentary about the band ( Dança Brava, dt: Wild Dance ), and in 2011 appeared in a box with five CDs, (with all recordings ), a DVD ( with video clips and performances) and a accompanying book ( with text, images and information), the total output of the work of the band.