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Artist
Emilio Cao
12+ albums
galizaprog galegoRock Progressivo Galegofolk progfolk galego
about
Emilio Cao’s first steps in music, as a teenager, are linked to pop music in his hometown, taking part in different musical groups (Brétema, NHU…). Shortly after that, he was called to play with them by the members of the group “Voces ceibes” (Benedicto, Bibiano) who, in the seventies, sang social and political songs in Galician against Franco’s dictatorship, reflecting this way a reality quite different from the official one. At that time he started to compose his first songs. He became a member of a group called “Movimento popular da canción galega”, formed by people who tried to make folk music more dynamic. In the early seventies he left Galiza and visited and lived in many European countries: he was a busker in Paris underground, a dishwasher in restaurants in Barcelona, a learner of different psychodelic realities in Amsterdam, a gardener in Copenhaguen… In one of his visits back in Galiza he saw, just by chance, a harp in a shop of secondhand instruments. One year later he recorded his first album FONTE DO ARAÑO, 1977, which was received with excellent reviews by the media. This album, the first of the called Celtic music in Galiza, was a turning point in the music of his country, and opened new roads that were later followed by many artists. It should also be stressed that Emilio Cao was the first musician who recovered the harp as an instrument for Galician folk music (there are records of its use in the Middle Age). This instrument is now often used by a number
