"Very enthusiastic". This is how Tatanka, from The Black Mamba, feels about joining the Algarve Ana Newton in a concert for two, today, Sunday, at 17 pm, at the Cine-Teatro Louletano.
The Portuguese musician, who even has a rib louletana, wins from her grandmother, returns to work in this city, where she has already been to the MED Festival, and says she is happy to have company. “I'm an apologist for partnerships and that artists should come together to exchange ideas, songs, sing with each other. When that happens, they enrich each other. I think the initiative is commendable and I was immediately excited to take it forward» reveals Pedro Taborda (Tatanka) to Musical - South Informationo.
Tatanka and Ana Newton work at Cineteatro Louletano as part of the cycle “O Longe é Aqui”, which promotes unprecedented encounters between local talents from Loulet and renowned figures in the national music scene.
The musicians didn't know each other and, after a long-distance preparation, the first rehearsal together took place this week. Nothing that worries Tatanka, since, he says, “Ana is a singer with a lot of experience. We exchanged ideas about the songs we are going to play together, because 80% of the concert is really together».
For now, only two songs from Takanta's solo career are known – “Alfaiate” and “Alma Despida”-, which are admittedly part of the concert. It is also certain that the song “Darkest Hour”, originally sung with António Zabujo, will be part of the line-up, as “it is a fado that fits more into the repertoire of Tatanka than of Black Mamba”. The musician also reveals that «in the concert some classics will be revisited with Ana».
“Alfaite” is Tatanka's most successful solo theme and “it talks about love and how people sometimes have chemistry with each other and even seem to know each other in another life, hence the “… I was a piece in another life of you…”», reveals the musician.
Born in Sintra, Tatanka became known as the lead singer of The Black Mamba. In 2016, he began his solo career, in a more personal way and returning to his roots, and confesses that he was surprised by the public's reaction. «I released both songs in an unpretentious way, to see what happens. I knew they were well done, those I showed them to liked it a lot, but when they go to the radio there starts to be a much more impartial judgment. They ended up having a lot airplay, people liked it and this catapulted itself into the national artistic space», he considered.
Ana Newton, on the other hand, is from Faro, but has lived for some years in the municipality of Loulé. For her, music is almost a family heirloom, as she is the daughter and granddaughter of artists who were dedicated to this art. He began his academic musical career at the age of 7 at the Maria Campina Conservatory, in Faro. As a teenager, she made her debut as a self-taught singer and, later, embraced the world of Jazz and Bossa Nova, with the quartet The Jazztrix and with her own project Ana Newton Quartet.
Tickets for this concert cost 12 euros for the general public and 10 euros for people over 65 and under 30.
The interview with Tatanka, can be heard in full on Musicália #84.
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