Adriano Correia de Oliveira
Adriano Correia Maria Gomes de Oliveira ( born April 9, 1942 in Porto, † October 16, 1982 in Avintes ) was a Portuguese composer and singer of protest song and Fado de Coimbra.
Biography
He grew up in a traditional Catholic and Vine and Baker family. In 1959, he began studying law at the University of Coimbra. He developed there distinct sports activities, especially in volleyball, where he was appointed to the national team. He also became involved in various cultural music and theater groups at the university, and increasingly political. Influenced by his roommate República, the traditional student housing community houses Coimbra, he began Fado de Coimbra to sing.
In 1960 he recorded his first record. In 1961 he discovered the poetry of Manuel Alegre. After a year at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, he returned to Coimbra, where he moved in the Rás República -Te Parta, lived in the already political activists. In 1963, he joined the banned Students ' Union ( Movimento Sindical Estudantil ). Dissatisfied with the conformity of student traditions, he began to sing about current social problems with the traditional song forms. In the same year he published the EP Trova do Vento que Passa ( " way of the rushing wind" ), with texts by Manuel Alegre and music by António Portugal. Especially the title track had developed after the first student crisis 1961/1962 an anthem of the student movement. The record was the first that could be assigned to the protest song in repressive Portugal of António de Oliveira Salazar 's dictatorship, and it marked a new development in Fado de Coimbra, which is now assumed critical tones.
Oliveira now adapted traditional folk songs, and 1964-1970 he sang ballads student accompanied only by a guitar, what separated him from the traditional Fado de Coimbra. In 1966 he married and moved to Lisbon, where he began his study of law again. From 1967 to 1970, he had to interrupt his studies again to comply with the compulsory military service of his country, which is increasingly embroiled since 1961 in the Portuguese Colonial War. He was stationed in a cavalry regiment in Santarém, where a later main character of the Carnation Revolution, Captain Salgueiro Maia, his instructor was. After his military service he resumed his law studies on again, but broke it off for good, to accept a job in the press office of the Lisbon exhibition Feira Internacional de Lisboa. There he remained employed until the Carnation Revolution on 25 April 1974, to devote himself exclusively to music afterwards, now freed from censorship and repression. His album Que nunca mais ( " On that never again " ) recorded in 1975 by a new Oliveira variety of styles from. Created by more musicians like Júlio Pereira, Carlos Paredes or Vitorino, and with influences of blues, rock and traditional Portuguese and African music, the album was a commercial success and received by the British music magazine Music Week 1975 Award Artist of the Year.
In his next shots he turned to the most popular songs and reinterpreted them. He was joined as a student of the Communist Party of Portugal ( Partido Comunista Português). After the bourgeois camp had prevailed within the revolution since November 1975, the disappointment took over the development of Portuguese society in Oliveira. It was in 1979 at the founding of the artists ' cooperative Cantar Abril ( " sing of April ," meaning the revolution is ) involved, but was with only two dissenting votes excluded ( the singer Carlos do Carmo and the poet Manuel Branco) 1981. One of the reasons was his non-paid tenth part of the fees, as statutes which provided for the cooperative. He joined as a result of the cooperative Era Nova ( " New Era " ) by José Mário Branco, Sérgio Godinho, inter alia, of. Reinforced with private and family problems, he fell increasingly alcoholism. Also, he failed to adapt to the requirements of a professional professional singer. In 1982, he died in his mother's house on a bleeding esophagus.