Ricardo Parreira

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• Ricardo Parreira (Vocals and Guitar)

• country:
  Portugal
• label:
  HM Música MWF
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  vocal
• artist submitted by:
  HM Música MWF

Ricardo Parreira is currently the youngest Portuguese guitar soloist.

He was born in Paço de Arcos, within a family that was deeply connected to the Portuguese guitar. His father is António Parreira and his brother is Paulo Parreira. Both are renowned instrumentalists. At the age of 25, he has had quite an eclectic career, both in fado and in the Portuguese music industry.

When he was 13, he performed for the first time with Argentina Santos, a fado singer, and was immediately invited to give a solo performance in the Porto de Fado festival, one of the events comprising Porto 2001, European Capital of Culture. His main influences are split between Lisbon's greatest guitar players, from Armandinho to José Nunes via Francisco Carvalhinho and Jaime Santos, and, in a more universal genre, Artur and Carlos Paredes, Pedro Caldeira Cabral and, more recently, Ricardo Rocha.

His discography contains two albums: Nas Veias de Uma Guitarra (2007), a tribute to the greatest Portuguese guitarist - the master Fernando Alvim - the only one who managed to perform with Carlos Paredes over the course of a lifetime. And in this case, the selected repertoire would include not only a series of tunes by composers with whom the guitarist had played but also an appearance by the master himself, who, at the age of 72, plays alongside Ricardo on this album, which critics and opinion makers have regarded as one of the most important documents of the greatest composers in the history of the Portuguese guitar over the last few years.

By 2010, he had already embarked on an experimental phase and released Cancionário, an approach to traditional and popular Portuguese music. Taking charge of the production of the album, he invited Yami (acoustic bass), Joaquim Teles (percussion), Micaela Vaz and Vânia Conde (vocals), as well as Marco Oliveira (classical guitar and vocals), who also served as musical director. This album was presented live for the first time in Casa da Música's grand auditorium and later on in the Praça de Armas in Castelo de São Jorge, as part of the 2010 Festa do Fado. On Cancionário, Ricardo Pereira reveals his talent once again, not only as an instrumentalist but also as a composer.

Among the concerts he has played throughout his short career, those most worthy of note include the performances he gave at the Casa da Música (Porto) and his participation in the Ibero-American Guitar Festival in Washington and in the awards ceremony for the three great musicians who worked with Amália Rodrigues (Raul Nery, José Fontes Rocha and Joel Pina). In 2010 he was also a guest soloist with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra for a series of concerts that took place between September and November and an album entitled Música para Lisboa.

Até ao amanhecer (Until dawn) is the name of his new show, a recital in which virtuosity and creativity are part of the original compositions and some of the versions performed by Ricardo Parreira's Portuguese guitar, this time with the participation of Marco Oliveira, one of the youngest guitarists on the current scene. Together, they invite us to embark on a journey that begins as a late afternoon, presenting the instrument's musical universe, performing songs that reveal their own roots, travelling though all of their creation and development. The Lisbon guitar, the Coimbra guitar and the Portuguese guitar... A gathering of sounds that reflect the soul and spirit of a musical genre that brings time to a halt, because the music we're about to listen to is timeless, and that is why this journey is just... "Until dawn"

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