[Trending News] Paulo Raimundo praises Carlos Paredes as “genius musician and generous man”

“In the 100 years of Carlos Paredes we celebrate the genius musician, the generous man, the communist militant of all life, the man of the thousand fingers and the thousand convictions, who left us a work without parallel, who continues to mobilize new generations to change Life and build a better world to which they are entitled, ”said Paulo Raimundo through a video sent to the newsrooms.

For the communist leader, “the genius and mastery” of Carlos Paredes “cannot be separated from his militant option, his option of commitment and connection to the life and reality of the people”.

“The people and a guitar is also all that has been and continues to be Carlos Paredes,” he praised.

The PCP, according to Paulo Raimundo, “prides itself on having among its one of the great interpreters of Portuguese music”, considering the guitarist “so sublime to the point” of becoming “in his symbol and that was and is a symbol odd from Portuguese culture ”.

Guitarist Carlos Paredes would today be 100 years old and to celebrate it there is a set of initiatives that have begun at the beginning of the month and will extend over the coming months, including two concerts today.

Carlos Paredes was born in Coimbra on February 16, 1925, and died in Lisbon on July 23, 2004, where the family had moved as early as 1931.

Son of guitarist Artur Paredes, another larger name of the Portuguese guitar, Carlos Paredes continued a family line of generations of musicians, remaining loyal to tradition and style of origin, touching the Coimbra guitar, with the tuning of fado de Coimbra. However, he printed a personal approach that led him to the main stages and to joint work with other great interpreters, such as the American Jazz Bassist Charlie Haden, with whom he edited the album “Dialogues”. Kronos Quartet adopted “green years” for their repertoire.

Carlos Paredes lived, above all, in Lisbon and the city inspired many of its compositions. “Green Years”, one of the best known of his work, was composed for the homonymous film of Paulo Rocha, milestone of the new Portuguese cinema of the 1960s.

Anti-fascist combatant, opposed the dictatorship and was arrested by PIDE in the late 1950s, having been imprisoned in the Aljube jail and the Caxias Fort.