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“Poeta Pop” by Tristão de Andrade makes hearts rhyme on the stage of Fundação Oriente

Poetry, music and dance come together next Saturday (18) in Lisbon to create an intimate and engaging show.

Poetry is not (just) what makes words rhyme, but hearts. And it is not just a matter of Camões, Pessoa or other enlightened people, but, if you wish, of all of us. Tristão de Andrade – writer, musician and singer-songwriter – writes, recites and sings it. It gives it another musicality and elevates it on stage, even transforming it into a dance. This is “Poeta Pop”, which is a book, an LP and also a show. Which will take to the stage at the Fundação Oriente Auditorium next Saturday (18th, at 9 pm).

In the “most beautiful form of life” (poetry, of course), as Tristão de Andrade considers it, almost nothing is left out. The artist, who has been writing since he was 14, models the power of words with the plasticity of music to talk about love, heartbreak and other states of mind. But also of social relations, equality between people, wealth, poverty, vices, death, the way we face difficulties, of family, of emigrants and of how we adapt to the world.

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Tristão de Andrade

“My greatest mission as a poet is to include without forgetting anyone,” intones this confessed admirer of the word “we.” And this will be seen once again on stage at the Fundação Oriente show house, in an hour and a half of intimacy and involvement with the audience. Where Tristão de Andrade crosses his multiple facets in an atmosphere full of art. Six other artists work: Daniela Miranda (second voice and one of the revelations of Got Talent Portugal), Pedro de Castro and Luís Roquette (guitar), Francisco Zanatti (Portuguese guitar) and the dancers Inês Figueiredo and Bruno Oliveira.

All together (with a few more, behind the scenes, they bring the number of those who give shape to “Poeta Pop” to 20), as if they were one, they transform the stage into “almost a mirror of life”, as the singer-songwriter emphasizes.

“I bring to the stage the stories of life, the memories of a generation and the events in Portugal in recent decades. It is, at the same time, a tribute to our poets, but also to our people and our emigrants”, highlights Tristão de Andrade.

The project is, for all this and much more, quite comprehensive in time and content, in songs that “have been emerging over the last few years like pieces of a puzzle that is now being completed”. And of which Tristão de Andrade has difficulty in particularizing the importance of one or another theme.

Still, without any kind of squeamishness, he chooses as central to the message of “Poeta Pop”, the songs “Bola de Cristal” – which talks about adolescence and closes one of the most emotional chapters – and the sweet “Aindo faço golo”, one of the public’s most beloved songs. Not to mention “Saudade”, which closes the program.

The show, which has already been to Porto, has sequels in the scheduling phase after Lisbon. With the four corners of the world map on the route, where there are Portuguese communities. From Macau to the United States, Europe and “anywhere where a Portuguese person is willing to listen to us”, adds the writer, with the “certainty that the international public will also revisit Portugal and identify with the show”.

On the agenda:

  • “Pop Poet”, by Tristan de Andrade
  • Auditorium of the Oriente Foundation, Lisbon
  • January 18, 2025, 9:00 p.m.

Technical Data Sheet:

  • Voices: Tristan de Andrade and Daniela Miranda
  • Classical guitars: Pedro de Castro and Luís Roquette
  • Portuguese guitar: Francisco Zanatti
  • Dance: Inês Figueiredo and Bruno Oliveira
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Tristão de Andrade

About Tristan Andrade:

Born in Coimbra in 1979, he demonstrated a passion for writing and music from an early age, especially from the age of 14. He studied Law in Porto but quickly discovered that his path lay in the arts. He is known as a new-generation author, writer, poet, composer and singer-songwriter. He likes to be seen as a provocateur of consciences and an awakener of senses. He uses his art to explore and express the depth of emotions and demand attention to relevant issues in today’s society. Among the best-known works of Tristão de Andrade are the books “What If It Were You?”, “Us”, and “The Seven Deadly Poems”. He has written and composed more than 100 musical songs so far, some of which are now part of his brand new project Poeta Pop, which is explained as a different approach to love. He enjoys creating bridges between traditional poetry, popular poetry, prose, and music and is committed to demystifying poetry so that it can be used as an instrument in modern everyday life.

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