The second edition of Som no Coreto is back, after a mandatory stop due to Covide, the music is back at Restelo, where Bernardo Lobo, responsible for the project, opens his house, for intimate concerts, where the artist can be heard. and its music among many stories.
Bernardo Lobo introduced Antonio Villeroy and the project to the audience present “he is passing through Europe, he is on tour, and one of the goals of Som no Coreto is to bring artists who are on tour in Europe and invite them to a very more intimate …” and adds “… when I started in 2020, already with the pandemic, the artists who made the first year were the ones who live here, Portuguese and Brazilians“.
Antonio Villeroy, partner of artists such as Ana Carolina, Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa and Ivan Lins, who composed with Luísa Sobral and John Legend, made a stop in Portugal for two concerts at Avenew and Som no Coreto and also a participation in Rua das Pretas, in Recreation Coliseum.
Antonio Villeroy with a career spanning 40 years, thanked those who came on Saturday afternoon to hear him, “today is my last day in this first phase of the tour in Lisbon, I’m going to Holland, then France, Austria and Spain and I’ll be back on the 29th of April for the last show…” and confesses that he follows the Som do Coreto project and that it was he who asked to play at this mini-festival in Restelo.
Villeroy also says that “the basis of the concert he has presented is from the most recent album “Luz acesa”, which was recorded in audio and video, and available on Youtube and digital platforms, but I keep changing, for example, at the Avenew concert, at In the middle of the sevens, a group of French people arrived, and I played a French song…” and it was with the song that gives the name to the one that Antonio started the concert “Luz lit”, a concert that was well worth it, if you can day 29 don’t miss it.
The author has collaborated with several Portuguese artists, and confesses his admiration for Portuguese artists such as Maria João and Mário Laginha, Carminho and António Zambujo, Portuguese music that has only gained from this exchange with music from Portuguese-speaking countries, but also from other geographical points, that has turned Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, among other cities, into boiling nests of culture and modernity.
Lyrics, arrangements, compositions are part of Villeroy’s daily life, with numerous hits in partnership with Gal Costa, Ivan Lins, João Donato, Maria Bethânia, Maria Gadú, Mart’nália, Moska, Preta Gil, Seu Jorge and Zizi Possi, the Italians Chiara Civello and Mario Biondi, the North Americans Don Grusin and Jesse Harris, among other artists around the world.
Villeroy with two Latin Grammy nominations in 2005 and 2007 and more than 25 songs on film and soap opera soundtracks and with his album “Totonho Villeroy” on the soundtrack of a documentary by chef Anthony Bourdain for television, he has a full road ahead. of successes behind him, and with many more to come.
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