The “messy” pop of Beato will be presented in Lisbon this Thursday at the Carlos Paredes Auditorium, in Benfica, Lisbon. In a conversation with DN, the musician explains this stage in his career with the new work Bonança.
Before other questions: why the name Beato and the need for an alter ego?
Blessed, beyond the inevitable association with a person from the Church, comes from the Latin beatus and means blessed, a happy person. It is in this meaning that I intend to be. But before that there is the path that brought me to the word which was the fact that I settled in Beato, in Lisbon, which also represented a very important moment in my life and coincided with the beginning of my solo career. This made me research about its meaning. The two reasons seemed to be related and made sense together, almost like a chance that was asking to exist, to mark my path.
As a musician and composer, I have always had an appetite to explore within pop, and this is reflected in the bands I co-founded such as Pinto Ferreira and Ultraleve. I now realize that it was all a necessary journey to get here to “Beato” which is like getting to the physical house where I establish my haven and that from an artistic point of view it also has that meaning: to get home, to my creative comfort zone, where I reveal myself, without filters, without constraints.
