José Melo Music Productions & Management is a booking agency based in Amsterdam, working since 1998 at artistic and cultural music development all over the world.
We look for a good relationship with theatres and festivals worldwide. Our acts can be found spread from clubs, to great halls and festivals.
We also work as advisors on current trends in music from Portugal and the Portuguese diaspora.
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The continued livelyhood of a song, that represents like few others the way of feeling, acting and being deeply and profoundly Portuguese, motivated Helder Moutinho, songwriter and Fado interpreter, to create a show that represents simultaneously his immense tradition and the way it is recreated by does that are reached by him.
Above all, it is about creating a journey through sound, taking Fado as a musical basis, but designing it with new forms, wih the baldness of bringing new sounds to its sound and its way of being.
Helder Moutinho voice, already known by its solo acts, demonstrates an inquestionable versatility when living side by side so well with the careful musical production and work of Manuel D’Olieira, guitar player from Fado’s distant universes, yet so many times called upon to contribute to this cause.
In “Maldito Fado’s” line-up one will travel through Fado’s historic classics, joined by original songs written intentionally for this show, with all themes centered in Fado’s language. The typical and “castiços” “bairros de Lisbos”, the “amores e desamores” that tell their stories, the emotion of “saudade” and sadness, the difficult “fadista” livelihood, are all recreated as they were and as they will be, in accordance to changing times that not even Fado’s emotion can ignore.
Conducted by it’s native interpreters - voice, guitar and portuguese guitar - hosts of a gathering of outher instruments such as the acordeon, bass or percussion, “Maldito Fado” results (…) in a show where Fado is at the same time main character and climax of everything that is a part of it, reinforcing and contaminated by all the influences that surround it.
Helder Moutinho
Helder Moutinho werd geboren in 1969, in Oeiras. Zijn familie was verbonden met Fadomuziek en Helder Moutinho kreeg de kans vele grootheden van de Fado te leren kennen en, bovenal, met hen samen de Fado te beleven. In zijn jeugd experimenteert hij met andere muziekstijlen, maar later keert hij terug naar de Fado, rijper en wijzer en met een enorme drang om teksten te schrijven. In het begin zingt hij slechts voor vrienden en bekenden, maar in 1994 wordt hij uitgenodigd toe te treden tot het vaste gezelschap van een Fadohuis in Bairro Alto, Lissabon. Vanaf dat moment heeft de jonge Fadozanger vele mogelijkheden gehad om zijn talent te tonen tijdens ontelbare concerten in Portugal en daarbuiten.
Daarnaast zong hij voor films en internationale documentaires. Momenteel is hij bezig aan zijn volgende album, dat ook traditionele Fado-stukken bevat die hij zelf heeft geschreven. Helder Moutinho kan gezien worden als een van sterkste / bestendigste mannelijke stemmen van de Fado de Lisboa.
