Rodrigo Leão, one of the most prominent Portuguese musicians with a sound international career, has just launched “Songs”, a record featuring all his songs in English and recorded with the collaboration on vocals of interatinal stars such as Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon, Portishead’s Beth Gibbons and Scott Mathew. To mark the occasion, Rodrigo Leão invited these three musicians and other guests to take to the stage with him and his band in Lisbon and Oporto of which we give you one video with the king of coll Neil Hannon.
This founding member of the iconic Portuguese band Sétima Legião would later be also one of the founding members of Madredeus, having embarked on a solo careers and released a dozen of remarkable records mixing electronica with classical music influences and tones and tunes from different parts of the world, e.g. Brazil or Argentina.
Aside from the collaboration with the three aforementioned artists, Rodrigo Leão worked together with Ryuchi Sakamoto, in “Cinema”, an album considered by the magazine Billboards as one of the best of 2004.
Listen to “Songs” to listen to “Cathy” with Neil Hannon and other songs in this album and check his bio and work at www.rodrigoleao.pt to have a clearer picture of the work by this composer.
Antonio Navas wins Best Model Award at the Madrid Fashion Week
Antonio Navas, a model from Barcelona, has just one the award for best model at the L’Oreal Awards here at the Mercedes-Benz Madrid Fashion Week. Despite his good looks and cool presence on the catwalk this award comes somehow as a surprise, considering it goes usually to female models. Antonio thanked for the award, referred to the current difficult economic situation of the country and said the money received as part of the L’Oreal award would go to a Barcelona based charity.
The ceremony was presented by former Spanish model Laura Sanchez, by Cuca Solana, director of the Mercedes-Benz Madrid Fashion Week and by the Portuguese Inês Caldeira, director of L’Oreal Spain.
This ceremony was there also to award the prize for best collection won by Juan Duyos, a designer from Madrid and one of the regulars at this fashion week who presented yesterday his collectin “Reserva”.
