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Text:<\/strong>\u00a0Miguel Ars\u00e9nio |\u00a0Illustration<\/strong>: Margarida Batista\u00a0|\u00a0Translator:<\/strong>\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Diogo Rocha Pereira<\/p>\n

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It was by believing, since the beginning, that most of AZUL\u2019s<\/a> contents would share a common passion for Ericeira that I accepted the invitation of taking the role as this column\u2019s writer. After all, was there really any other option for someone who has loved the village for over thirty years and is now able to write about it for such an energetic publication? During a zealous brainstorm session focused on AZUL, it ended being my fellow writer Rui Miguel Abreu who chose \u201cBlue Note\u201d as the name for this chronicle. And so was assembled a machinery that would only require ideas and guidance to function properly onwards. Although those assembled ideas might be the most diverse, they are guaranteed to deal with all the subjects that make us feel Ericeira in a more intense way.<\/p>\n

With that being said, it seemed only logical that the first sample of this sentiment would focus in one of the many legends the village holds. And it is precisely here that Jo\u00e3o Braza appears, wearing a proud moustache and with a body structure much similar to those roguish old Western sheriffs. For those who don\u2019t know, Jo\u00e3o Braza is also a remarkable Fado singer known for his impromptu abilities. Furthermore, it was his\u2019 name written in big letters in a Fado night that made the Feast of Our Lady of Good Voyage (Ericeira\u2019s patron saint) an unforgettable event that year. The people that gathered around the Ribas Square would only expect Jo\u00e3o Braza to provide just another Fado show, but what took place that night was history itself.<\/p>\n

And, as happened in the legendary first concerts of the Sex Pistols or Joy Division, few were those who remained to tell what happened in that magical occasion. That\u2019s why even today I feel that I was extremely lucky to have been present to see Jo\u00e3o Braza. After having dinner at the tavern known as \u201cMulher do Homem\u201d with a meal that must’ve surely had its fair share of wine, our artist comes on stage and then explores a fancy repertoire of Fado songs. The audience responds enthusiastically to Jo\u00e3o Braza\u2019s versatility and passion \u2013 who, from one point, outperforms the role of a simple singer and now looks like a boxer unwilling to admit defeat. There it was, on the stage next to Saint Anthony\u2019s Chapel, a representation of all the struggles of men: a middle-aged gentleman clinging the front stage ropes to avoid falling and determined to keep singing, no matter what happened.<\/p>\n

The Legend then takes place as the singer descends from the stage and starts walking through its audience, formulating improvised lyrics concerning what he considered to be everyone\u2019s personal stories. As an enlightened observer who travels down the big road of being Portuguese, Jo\u00e3o Braza was particularly incisive: he saw lonely women as they were, sang the life of little boys and girls and counselled a few men to return home and cherish their wives and children. During those twenty minutes, the Fado singer stood alongside Jos\u00e9 Mario Branco and his epic song \u201cFMI\u201d or the rapper Halloween with his not less grand \u201cDia de um dread de 16 anos\u201d. Even with his drunken stagger, which only makes it more real, Jo\u00e3o Braza narrated life as few are able to do and proved that the sublime might surprise and occur anywhere, and not only where we expect to find it. And so he fully deserves the highest Blue Note.<\/p>\n

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