Pedro Abrunhosa
Pedro Machado Abrunhosa ( born December 20, 1960 in Porto ) is a Portuguese jazz and pop musician, and author.
- 2.1 albums
- 2.2 Singles and EPs
Life
Until 1988
Abrunhosa comes from a family of amateur musicians; In 1971 he received organ lessons at the music school founded in 1917 known trading house music Ruvina in Porto. From 1976 he studied at the Escola de Música do Porto music analysis, composition and music history (with Álvaro Salazar and Jorge Peixinho ), and from 1978 double bass (with Adriano Aguiar ). From 1981 to 1984 he taught himself, and was also the meantime music lessons at primary schools. Meanwhile, he continued studying double bass with Alejandro Oliva and studied at the Conservatoire de Música do Porto Conservatória composition ( completion 1984).
Subsequently, he accepted an invitation of the Spanish orchestra Grupo de Musica Contemporanea de Madrid, which occurred on the Iberian Peninsula. In parallel, he devoted himself since the early 1980s, jazz. He participated in workshops of many players including Billy Hart, David Liebman, Todd Coolman, Jack Walrath and played in various bands, including a self-assembled quintet and septet then. He accompanied several musicians on their European tours, including Boulou Ferre, Elios Ferré, Ramon Cardo, Frankie Rose, Vicent Penasse, Tommy Halferty. He taught double bass at the Hot Clube de Portugal in Lisbon, and in 1985 he co-founded the Jazz School Escola de Jazz do Porto, where he also taught and for their jazz orchestra he composed.
Since 1988
From 1988 to 1991 he headed the Cool Jazz Orchestra, which he founded and for which he arranged. The group interpreted Rhythm and blues standards and newly gained so some notoriety in the Greater Porto as a live band. The experience thus gained moving Abrunhosa, 1989 to form his first group with his own compositions, under the name Pedro Abrunhosa ea Máquina do Som ( Portuguese for Pedro Abrunhosa and the sound machine ). They recorded a demo, which caught the attention of Carlos Maria Trindade, the former A & R of the Portuguese PolyGram.
After the recording sessions in 1993, with former James Brown saxophonist Maceo Parker as guest musicians, formed Abrunhosa his new group, and the album Viagens (Portuguese: Travel ) appeared in 1994 already under the name Pedro Abrunhosa e os Bandemónio (pun with the words Banda, port. for band and pandemonio, port. for chaos). Abrunhosa came from then wearing sunglasses, often idiosyncratic headgear, and its own stage gesturing on, and cultivated a cool - rebellious attitude, which was directed against the political climate of government Cavaco Silva. The album was bringing his pop sound with strong influences from acid jazz, funk, hip -hop and trip-hop considerable attention in Portugal, and the American Billboard magazine released in December 1994 Abrunhosa on the front page. The second album tempo ( Portuguese: time) was released in 1996 already with English and Spanish versions and in a remix version, and gained some attention especially in Brazil, where, inter alia, Elba Ramalho and Zeca Baleiro in the sequence of songs in Abrunhosa their repertoire recordings.
In 1999 appeared with Silêncio ( Portuguese: silence) the third album, with increasing weighting of the lyrics, and with influences of House and other emerging dance music styles. Also this album was very successful in Portugal. Abrunhosa 1999 also played the male lead in Manoel de Oliveira's film The Letter ( orig.: A Carta ), on the side of Chiara Mastroianni. The film won an award at the Cannes Film Festival, but Abrunhosa remained an international breakthrough still denied. In Portugal, however, strengthened its position as the size of the music industry. Further albums followed, who penetrated usually up to the top ranks of the sales charts, so in 2007 his last album recorded in previous formation Luz (English: Light).
End of 2009, Abrunhosa separated from his long-time backing band Bandemónio. He played from now on with new musicians, the Comité Caviar (German: Caviar Committee ), which should support him in his change of direction to a more rock style of music. His subsequent releases and concerts were henceforth less soul and jazz influences, and in turn greater proportions traditional rock styles. The 2010 published by the Comité Caviar album Longe (German: Remote ) reached # 1 on the Portuguese sales charts, where the album stayed 70 weeks.
Abrunhosa composed music for plays and films. He also writes columns and comments for various magazines in Portugal. 2012 published a collection of these self-deprecating to satirical and critical articles on topics of everyday life, politics and society as a book, under the title Crónicas (German: Chronicles ).
Discography
Albums
Singles and EPs
Videography
- 2005: Intimidade DVD
- 2011: DVD Coliseu
Bibliography
- Pedro Abrunhosa: Pedro Abrunhosa & Os Bandemónio. Civilização Editora, Porto 1995 ( ISBN 978-972-261-180-0 )
- Pedro Abrunhosa: Canções. Quasi Edições, Vila Nova de Famalicão 2003 ( ISBN 978-989-552-042-8 )
- Pedro Abrunhosa: Crónicas. Arcádia Editora, Lisbon 2012 ( ISBN 978-989-280-066-0 )