Cláudia Pascoal’s ‘Quase Dança’ named best Portuguese song
The award of the prize to Cláudia Pascoal and to the singer Gaudí Galego, winner in the category of best Galician song, with ‘Cólico’, will take place in October, added the organization of the event.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he more than five thousand public votes cast in the ‘aRi[t]mar Galiza and Portugal‘ event, promoted by the Official Language School of Santiago de Compostela, determined that the winners for the best musical theme published in Galicia and Portugal in 2018 are, respectively, Gaudi Galego, with ‘Cólico’ and Cláudia Pascoal with ‘Quase Dança’.
These prizes, together with those for poetry, and the one for the Galician-Lusophone Friendship Embassy, will be presented to the winning artists and poets in the sixth edition of the Gala aRi[t]mar 2021, to be held in October.
In previous years, the winning Portuguese artists were Capicua, Quinta do Bill, Salvador Sobral, Os Azeitonas and António Zambujo, who went to Santiago de Compostela to receive the prize and interpret the winning songs and others from their repertoires.
In this year’s edition, the following most voted themes were those of the Galicians Xoana (‘Anceios’) and Bárbara Tinoco (‘Outras línguas’), the Galicians D’Abaixo, ‘Pasei pola túa porta’, and Miguel Araújo, with ‘A incrível história de Gabriela de Jesus’.
On the 24th of April, the eve of the celebration of the Carnation Revolution, the special jury prize will be announced to the Galician-Lusophone Friendship Embassy, created to distinguish people, initiatives or institutions that have stood out for building bridges of friendship between Galicia and Lusophony.
aRi[t]mar Galicia and Portugal is a didactic-cultural project initially developed by the Official Language School of Santiago de Compostela, belonging to the Council of Culture, Education and University of the Junta of Galicia, which aims to disseminate Galician music and poetry – current Portuguese women, bringing the culture and language of the two countries closer together, within the framework of the development of the Valentim Paz-Andrade Law to take advantage of the teaching of Portuguese and the links with Lusophony.
This initiative is part of the GaliLusofonia Network, with the objectives of joining efforts, coordinating and cooperating in the dissemination of initiatives aimed at promoting our common language and culture in its natural space, the Lusophony, with great potential in other fields such as the economic and the institutional.
