The Estate of António Variações | Auction

by P4 in 2009-09-22

Sale: 12 November 2009 | Lisbon

 


Antório Variações. Photography by Alexandre Carvalho, 1982.

P4Liveauctions is pleased to announce that Luís Trindade, the auction house’s founder, has reached an agreement with the heirs of Portuguese pop singer António Variações which will enable the sale in auction of his personal estate. The auction that will include song lyrics, photographs, clothes, posters, costume jewellery and other personal items will take place in Lisbon in 12 November 2009.

  Head. Photography by Jorge Nabais, 2009.

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António Variações is one of the greatest icons of Portuguese Pop music. The authenticity and emotion he conveyed to his creations has inspired, and goes on inspiring, several generations of Portuguese artists.
      António Variações was born António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro in December 1944, near the city of Braga. Music was a constant presence in his life. At the age of 12 he goes to Lisbon where he lives and works for a few years until he departs for Angola in 1965. In 1970 he travels to London; later he declares that he did not benefit from this contact with a different country as fully as he did later when he journeyed firstly to Italy in 1973 and soon after to Holland in 1974.
      By this time António was already dedicating himself to learning and practicing the craft of barber for the specific reason that, as he made a point of clarifying, it was the haircut not the style that interested him the most. And it is also the idea of ‘cutting out’ that is present in his personality in a most significant way, as he would not have anything to do with prejudice or with anything regarded as common or consensual. He opens the “É pró Menino e prá Menina” barbershop and becomes immediately noticed for the combination resulting from his unusual clothes and his apparent barber poise.
      Keeping faithful to his lifelong ambition of becoming a musician, in 1978 he finally signed a contract with record label Valentim de Carvalho, and four years of travels, concerts and performances go by before he recorded his first album. The lyrics of his songs, deep-rooted in his motherland, speak about that journey “between Braga and NY”, about his longing for change in a country that is changing slowly, and about his personal worries. Between 1982 and 1984 he recorded two singles and two albums, the latter of which came out days before his death on 13 June 1984, Saint Anthony of Lisbon’s feast day. Sofia P. Trindade

António Variações at the Youtube:
Music | O corpo é que paga; RTP TV; RTP Arquives 1984;
News | SIC TV; RTP TV; Público Newspaper;

Portuguese (original version):

António Variações é um dos ícones maiores da música Pop portuguesa; marcou e continua a marcar diversas gerações de artistas portugueses, pela genuinidade e emoção que emprestava às suas criações.
      Nascido António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, em Dezembro de 1944, perto de Braga, sempre viveu com a música. Com 12 anos vai para Lisboa onde vive e trabalha durante alguns anos, até ir para Angola, em 1965. Em 1970, parte para Londres e conforme afirma mais tarde, não retira ainda deste contacto com outro país, o pleno proveito, ao contrário do que sucede em seguida, quando viaja, primeiro para Itália, em 1973 e depois, em 1974, para a Holanda.
       Já nesta altura, António se dedicava a aprender e exercer a profissão de barbeiro, como fazia questão de marcar, porque o que lhe interessava mais era o corte e não o penteado. E é também o corte que marca a sua personalidade, o corte com os preconceitos, com o que é comum e consensual. Assim, abre a Barbearia “É pró Menino e prá Menina”, onde a sua imagem é notada pelas roupas invulgares, associadas à aparente serenidade do barbeiro.
      Sem perder o rumo que norteava as suas ambições mais profundas de ser músico, em 1978 assina finalmente contrato com a Editora Valentim de Carvalho, mas passam 4 anos, algumas viagens mais, vários concertos e apresentações, até gravar o primeiro disco. As letras das suas músicas, com raízes na sua terra natal, contam essa viagem, “entre Braga e NY”, a sua vontade de mudança, num país a mudar devagar e as suas interrogações pessoais. Entre 1982 e 1984, grava dois singles e dois LPs, tendo o último saído nos dias anteriores à sua morte, em 13 de Junho de 1984, dia de Santo António. Sofia P. Trindade

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