Júlio Pereira e os seus sete instrumentos.

Rui Veloso! I rock português nos anos 80...

E o maravilhoso Jorge Palma! Deixa-me rir!

And our marvellous piano player Maria João Pires, at Gilmore Festival in 2024

Fernando Pessoa, another portuguese poet...

Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal
São lágrimas de Portugal!
Por te cruzarmos, quantas mães choraram,
Quantos filhos em vão rezaram!
Quantas noivas ficaram por casar
Para que fosses nosso, ó mar!

Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena
Se a alma não é pequena.
Quem quer passar além do Bojador
Tem que passar além da dor.
Deus ao mar o perigo e o abismo deu,
Mas nele é que espelhou o céu.

Fernando Pessoa

Cante Alentejano is a a different way in which the field workers used to sing to while away the monotony and the effort necessary to deal with their daily work on the fiery fields in the Summer. Then it became a proper form of singing recognized by the Unesco in 2014.

And, in a quantic leap, two of the most aclaimed artists, singing the Blues: Maria João e Mário Laginha!

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This is a wonderful idea from @jcrispimromao

I may just be dreaming awake... but ... what if each one of us would share some art work representative of his/her own country, being either art, poetry, performing arts? Maybe, just maybe, we could make ourselves create a dynamic of approaching cultures... I say this because I belong to a peripheral european country and I sense most people across Europe do not know much about us, appart from the Discovery times.