Napoleão Mira e Silly
Castro Verde, June 26th 2022, 11h
Where Basílica Real de Castro Verde
Free entry
In Castro Verde, on the last Saturday of each month, the Constellations take place, which bring together artists and representatives of traditional practices from Baixo Alentejo with contemporary artists and the public. Each Constellation consists of dialogue and experimentation between these three elements. The guests do not know each other, there is no defined script, we do not know what will happen and it is this surprise factor that motivates us all to build an unrepeatable moment in a participatory way.
In this first Constellation of 2022, the Alentejo writer, composer and singer Napoleão Mira, originally from Entradas, and the young rapper Silly, who spent her adolescence in Serpa, participate. Like them, we are also curious about this session.
Moderation: Ana Ademar and Filipe Pratas
Napoleão Mira
Napoleão Mira was born in Entradas, Castro Verde, in 1956. He has lived in the Algarve, in the municipality of Lagoa, since 1983.
He founded and directed, between 1998 and 2000, the magazine «O Trigueirão». He collaborated in the newspapers «O Campo», «Diário do Alentejo», «Correio Alentejo» and in the magazine «30 Dias».
In music, he created “Pratica (mind)” and “Slides — Retratos da Cidade Branca” for the acclaimed album “Pratica (mind)” by his son Sam The Kid.
He participated with the theme “Subúrbio” on the album «Eu e os Meus» by Dino & The Soulmotion. He joined the Hip Hop Pessoa project around the 120th anniversary of the birth of Fernando Pessoa, recreating and saying “Tabacaria”.
In partnership with Sam The Kid, he created and performed, for the first «Festival Silêncio!», the show «Palavras Nossas».
In 2010 he released the book «Ao Sul», a compilation of his best chronicles. He participated in the recording work of the renowned band Orelha Negra and in the long-awaited CD by Sir Scratch, released in 2012, when he edited his first novel entitled FADO, a work that achieved considerable notoriety among the public.
In 2014 he edited the book of chronicles, stories and texts entitled: De Coração D’Interiores.
In 2015 he created with the collective Reflect the spoken word performance: 12 Canções Faladas and 1 Poema Desesperado. He also participated in the albums of the collective Reflect called: Gata, and also in the Grilocks mixtape entitled: Carisma.
In 2016, he released the record in partnership with the collective Reflect: 12 Canções Faladas and 1 Poema Desesperado.
2017 is the year he is invited to join the Grafonola Voadora project.
In 2018 he created the performance: Practical Manual for Strong Emotions. His first travel book entitled: Olhares – Relatos da Índia is launched. In partnership with Luis Salvador, he writes the texts for the photography book: Luz de Santiago. He is part of the ASSESTA collective – participating in the editorial projects of this Alentejo writers association: Água and Alentejo respectively.
2020: Fruit of the partnership with Grafonola Voadora, materializes this complicity with the record work: Lugar Não.
Silly
Silly is the artistic name of Maria Bentes, Azorean, who grew up between albums by Sérgio Godinho, José Mário Branco and MPB, and the racket of five brothers. Afterwards, she came to Serpa's gold and got an accent spoon. What she didn't lose was the calm of arriving and the taste for beauty. Today, she is 22 years old and lives in Lisbon. Music inhabited her space from an early age, but it was not long ago that she decided to pave the way to show us what she has been experiencing.
“Viver Sensimente” brought to Portuguese music the whispered words of Silly, which sound louder than many screams. The fable of a girl enchanted by the verb who ended up working with great people and promising even greater things. One of those cases that happen from time to time and announce a long life like yogurts. She introduced herself to the world with 5 tracks in November last year and, since then, we have been rocked by themes as light as they are intense, full of metaphors that show us the world through the artist's eyes, in a perfect mix of instruments, such as the piano and the guitar, embraced by electronic sounds, in a very organic and experimental way.
