Jorge Palma
Jorge Manuel de Abreu Palma ( born June 4, 1950 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese songwriter and rock musician.
Life
He began playing the piano at the age of six years. At age 13, he took second place in a Youth Music Competition in Palma de Mallorca. In 1964, he turned away from classical music and devoted himself to the pop / rock. On their own initiative, he learned to play the guitar, and played first time in 1967 in a band, the Black Boys, which mainly consisted of musicians from Santarém and tried in the Algarve, to live from their music. In 1969 he was part of the group Sindikato (also Sindicato ), which initially played hard rock, but then progressively moving towards the jazz-rock. They came in 1971 with the first edition of the Festival de Vilar de Mouros on, and took until its dissolution a single and an album of cover versions.
His first record took Palma in 1972 with the single The Nine Billion Names Of God. In the same year he broke his 1969 recorded his engineering studies at the University of Lisbon and went on a journey through Canada, the USA, and the Caribbean. 1973, after he finished the improvement of his lyrics hours at Ary dos Santos, Palma published his first Portuguese-language single, A Última Canção ( Eng.: The last song ).
In order to avoid being drafted into the army and an insert in the Portuguese Colonial War, Palma went in 1973 with his first wife Gisela Branco to Copenhagen, where he worked as an assistant at the local Sheraton hotel. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, he returned to Portugal, where he worked as a reinforced songwriter and arranger for other musicians, including for Amália Rodrigues. In 1975 he released his first album Com Uma Viagem na Palma since Mão (German: With a trip to the palm ). After his second album in 1977 ( ' Té Já, dt: Until the same) he went first as a sideman with Paco Bandeira on Brazil Tour, and after traveling to Spain, where he played as a street musician of his maintenance, so in Marbella and Barcelona, but also Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca.
The 1978 and 79 he spent mainly in Paris, again as a street musician before he went back to Lisbon in 1979 and there began his third album. After another stay in Paris in 1980, with his second wife Graça Lamy, he came back to Lisbon in 1982, for the recording of a new album.
1983 his first son, Vicente was born. With his next album O Lado Errado da Noite ( Eng.: The wrong side of the night) he gained more attention for the first time in Portugal. In 1986, he completed his piano studies at the National Conservatory (now the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa ) from, and recorded his seventh album. There followed a number of other publications, in addition to works for the theater. In the 1990s, he appeared primarily with interpretations of his own pieces. It became popular in the music scene of the country through numerous concerts. He was temporarily by musicians from the Xutos & Pontapés ( Kalu and Zé Pedro ) and Rádio Macau ( Alex and Flak ) as Palma 's accompanied transition, which he published in 1993 a live album. Several new solo albums followed, and he has since also a wide audience as a renowned name in rock music in Portugal.
Reception
Palma is known for its music and live independently away from all trends in Portugal. He gained so attention and recognition from the music scene. In this context, projects such as Palma 's Gang are.
With his album Voo Nocturno (German: Night Flight ), which stayed 46 weeks in the Portuguese sales charts, it reached 2004 for the first time the top of the country charts
Discography
Albums
Singles and EPs
Bibliography
- Jorge Palma: Terra dos Sonhos Na. Quasi Edições, Vila Nova de Famalicão 2005, ISBN 978-989-5520879 (lyrics )
- Pedro Teixeira: Na Palma da Mão - Jorge Palma Biografia Oficial. Prime Books, S. João do Estoril 2008, ISBN 978-989-6550073