Fernando Machado Soares

Fernando Machado Soares ( born September 3, 1930 in São Roque do Pico, Azores ) is a Portuguese fado artist ( fadista ).

Life

Machado Soares studied in the 1950 Law at the University of Coimbra. During his studies he performed as a singer of the classic Fado de Coimbra and took in this time also several records on. He gave concerts in Portugal, but also in Brazil and in the former African colonies of Portugal. In 1957, he took along with guitarist Jorge Godinho and António Portugal and Manuel Pepe and Levi Baptista to the Viola (bass guitar ) in Madrid on a plate as Coimbra Quintet. Machado Soares was as a singer, but also as a composer and lyricist, together with Luís Afonso Zeca Goes and the most important innovators of Fado de Coimbra.

After graduating, Machado Soares withdrew from the music scene, only in 1961, he joined as part of a tour to the United States. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, he returned to the stage and went several times also on an international tour. His most famous song and one of the most famous Fado from Coimbra is the Balada da Despedida, his farewell song to the student life.

Discography

  • Coimbra Tem corn Encanto, 1976
  • Le Fado de Coimbra, 1988
  • O Melhor De 2 - Fernando Machado Soares / Luís Goes, 2001
  • Fernando Machado Soares, 2006
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