Songs
Music Fernando Tordo and Lyrics Ary dos Santos
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Videos
Fernando Tordo and Pianist in Teatro Municipal da Guarda
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- country:Portugal
- region:Lisboa
- label:not signed
- type:Solo, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male
- instrumentation:vocal
- artist posted by:Stardust Produções/Fernando Tordo
Line up
- Fernando Tordo (Voice, guitar)
- Fernando Tordo (Voice, Guitars)
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Fernando Tordo is a fundamental singer and composer in the history of Portuguese music. He is an outstanding performer who has recorded with the orchestrator Francois Rauber, Jacques Brel's musical director, with Josep Mas (Kitfluz) and with NYJO - National Youth Jazz Orchestra at Abbey Road studios. Fernando Tordo had a major role as an artist and composer during the Revolution of April 24th, 1974 due to his songs of social intervention. With a career of almost 50 years, he never stopped innovating, studying and composing new music.
We may consider Fernando Tordo a singer of Urban Music influenced by big names as Tony Bennett, Jacques Brel or Gilbert Becaud. He has composed around 400 songs and has written for several Portuguese singers as Mariza, Carlos do Carmo, Carminho among others.
Tordo plays several string instruments as guitar, ukulele, harp, traditional Portuguese "viola Beiroa" and "viola Campanica". However, the Voice is his main instrument.
Jose Saramago, Literature Nobel awarded, once said about Fernando Tordo:
"... he is a craftsman of words... in his maturity as a man and as an artist we find he has a chamber orchestra on his throat. Listen to him again and again: the pleasure of listening shall increase with the repetition"
FERNANDO TORDO e um cantor e compositor fundamental da historia da musica portuguesa. Interprete de excepcao, gravou com orquestradores como Francois Rauber director musical de Jacques Brel com o Catalao Josep Mas (Kitfluz) e com a NYJO National Youth Jazz Orquestra nos estudios Abbey Road. Teve um papel de grande relevancia enquanto artista e compositor na Revolucao do 25 de Abril de 1974 gracas as suas cancoes com cariz de intervencao social. Quase com 50 anos de carreira, nunca deixou de inovar, estudar e compor musica nova.
Pode-se considerar um cantor de Musica Urbana com referencias musicais tao importantes como Tony Bennett, Jacques Brel ou Gilbert Becaud.
Tem cerca de 400 cancoes de sua autoria. Compos musicas para cantores portugueses como Mariza, Carlos do Carmo, Carminho entre outros.
Toca diversos instrumentos de corda, como Guitarra, Ukulele, Harpa, Viola Campanica, Viola Beiroa, etc., embora a Voz seja "O" instrumento privilegiado. Sobre Fernando Tordo, Jose Saramago, Premio Nobel da Literatura, disse:
"... Ele mesmo e um artesao das palavras ... na sua maturidade como homem e como artista descobre-se que tem uma orquestra de camara na garganta. Oicam-no, uma e outra vez. O prazer de escutar crescera com a repeticao."