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CLEMENTE MACHADO ALVES |
Clemente Machado Alves was born on Sao Jorge, Acores. He has lived in Portugal and France, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. Clemente is a writer, actor, playwright and musician, having appeared on several television programmes and stage plays. In 1997, he released a CD of original songs with Toronto's favourite cowpunk band The Yeehaa Cowboys. He is also a founding member of VoxNova and the Luso-Can Tuna. Clemente is currently working in advertising and is about to return to the studio with his new band SomaLove -- described as "Rhythms & Melodies From Iberia and Beyond" -- to record his next album. Outras páginas sobre o autor: My name is Clemente Manuel Machado Alves and I am Portuguese. I am a Settler of Atlantis, born on the Island of São Jorge in the Azores, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, somewhere between the Old World and the New. I am Portuguese from a nation of immigrants. I am a conquistador and I am a peasant. I am Celt and I am Roman. I am Goth, Jew, Christian and Moor. I am a Crusader. I am the Inquisition. For centuries I have fled my homeland on the edge of Europe to foreign lands at the far edges of the world. I have fled in search of adventure, in search of fortune, in search of destiny. I am Portuguese. I have built nations, and I have destroyed nations. I have discovered continents only to become lost in them. And wherever I go, I bring Portugal with me. I bring her beauty, I bring her history, I bring her tragedy. I bring her deep in my soul, in my eyes, in my songs. Portugal is a spirit, a phantom. She is a ghost that haunts my memories and my dreams. She cries to me from across the sea. She is my lost love, my infinite sadness… and I call her saudade. Her name is saudade. By: Clemente Machado Alves Copyright © C. Alves, 1998 Toronto, Ontario cleox@hotmail.com Se Portugal fosse uma flor, Então seria azul, pintada num azulejo, Ou verde e vermelho a enfeitar um lençol folclorico Que então enfeita a cabeça duma linda moça. Se Portugal fosse uma emoção, Então seria a saudade… O esteriótipo dos Portugueses Mas bem deles porque só os Portugueses podem entendê-lo. Se Portugal fosse uma canção, Então, sem dúvida seria “Ó Malhão Malhão”… A canção popular mais popular. Ou talvez, com dúvida, aqui no fim do século, Portugal seja o Pimba – popular sim mas sem mérito artistico, Sem coração e sem paixão. Se Portugal fosse um sabor, Então seria – porque para mim sempre foi – O feijão com chouriço, pão fresco do forno, queijo de São Jorge um pouco picante, E vinho da vinha da Fajã de São João. Se Portugal fosse uma memória, Então seria o meu avô, Alegre, rodeado pelos filhos e netos, Cabelo branco por baixo do seu chapéu preto, E na mão…um copo de vinho tinto… Vinho da vinha da Fajã de São João. Se Portugal fosse… By: Clemente Machado Alves Copyright © C. Alves, 1999 Coimbra, Portugal cleox@hotmail.com |
