Samuel Úria is the artist who follows at Serões da Primavera, in Santo Estêvão, Tavira. In this second concert of the cycle, the musician brings “Carga de Ombro”, to perform on the stage of the Casa do Povo of Santo Estêvão, this Friday, April 28, at 22 pm.
It's a long-awaited return to a territory where, despite having given few concerts around here, he claims to have already made friends and that there are guys he believes he'll see again. «These are people who take the trouble to see me and insist on having my records, how can I not consider them as friends?», reveals Samuel Úria, in an interview with Musical|Sul Informação.
The artist, who has already come to the Algarve in different formats – with band and solo – is this time performing in duo with Miguel Ferreira, clan keyboardist and producer of “Carga de Ombro”, and promises a festive concert. «Despite being just another person, Miguel has the genius and the technical resources to turn a duo concert into almost a band concert».
The acting will not be based only on the last work, since, being the 7th of a career that started in 2003, there are already themes that have become classics. But this album has had a greater projection, which the author attributes to a certain freshness that may have been lacking in the previous ones.
“I'm still playing this record in a way that doesn't seem to run out, like other records, in a year. I think it has to do with the discovery that people have made of different songs, which makes the record continue to be revived by this interest», comments Samuel Úria.
The former drawing teacher, now converted to another art, saw his name gain a little more prominence in the last year. Samuel Úria is now much better known, but, for the musician, it is not something that can be attributed only to the promotion and impact of the themes of “Carga de Ombro”.
His participation in the song festival «much more publicized than in previous years» and even a «somewhat strange name», which at one time may have brought him some unhappiness, help him to be more easily retained in people's memories.
Samuel Úria's music is not made only in his own name. There are several colleagues with whom he has worked and who will go up with him, next month, to the stage of the Tivoli, in Lisbon, in what can be considered as a celebration of the achievements so far.
Manuela Azevedo, Ana Moura or even the Golden Slambers, for whom she wrote the theme for the Song Festival, are some of the guests at this special concert.
“I have had work and challenges and some have come from other people. This friendship between musicians, more than a cheesy concept, professionally has its advantages. The moment of Portuguese music is peculiarly healthy, because these friendships have been consolidated in records, songs and collaborations, which is good for artists and for Portuguese music».
The musician feels lucky, because these interactions with other people of greater or better importance who help each other expand his career.
Samuel Úria is one of the faces of the publisher Flor Caveira, one of the promoters who, at the beginning of the century, made known some of the new national talents, helping to breathe new life into Portuguese music and to recognize what is done in Portugal.
For those who were part of the movement, it is not always easy to understand. “The time I had to start agreeing with the idea that we had contributed to that change was when a generation immediately following ours started quoting and referencing us as a key role in the music they are making. . There are many who are today “giving cards” and who, for example, in the matter of singing in Portuguese, refer to Flor Caveira or other small labels of the time, and who, in some way, reformulated the panorama of Portuguese music», recognizes the composer .
At the beginning of his musical career, Samuel Úria walked around punk, ska and trip-hop, but he let himself go in the wake of the songs and, in the last ten years, he has always thought of them in a disco context, which makes them appear «clad to each other» and, despite maintaining different styles, «there are a conceptual consolidation that has to make sense”.
The writing often dictates the path to which the melody goes, but the author guarantees that he can deliberately contract what the lyrics are suggesting, «and a song that has more difficult lyrics is the one that has to be more sugary to that people can accept it and not find it strange."
Saying that he wanted to come to the Algarve, bringing friendship and integration as watchwords, Samuel Úria left a suggestion to end his interview with Musical|Sul Informação: the theme “Repression”, presented by the author as a “complaint” song, about “a certain Lisbon centralization”…
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