Mario Pacheco

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Mário Pacheco’s assured guitar playing and captivating musical composition have not come about by chance. They are the result of dedication, hard work and a special love of music and fado in particular, rooted in a family tradition. The son of guitarist António Pacheco who accompanied some of the most celebrated fadistas, Mário Pacheco began at an early age to master the mysteries of making the guitar sing and the melodic patterns of fado composition. This early apprenticeship was to be deepened and extended in his study of solfeggio and the classical guitar at the Lisbon Academy of Music. However, it is the cittern-like guitarra portuguesa that beguiles him, the instrument that he says “most expressively defines fado”. He industriously studied the great guitarists: Armandinho, Artur Paredes, Carlos Paredes (to whom he dedicates a piece on this CD), Pedro Caldeira Cabral and Fontes Rocha (to whom he also pays homage on this album). The foundations were thus laid for him to create his own style, both as a performer, accompanying such great singers as Amália Rodrigues, Alfredo Marceneiro, Hermínia Silva, Tristão da Silva, Max, Fernando Maurício and Maria da Fé, names that his father had also accompanied, and later as a composer. With the musical upbringing that he had from the cradle, it was inevitable that this desire and inspiration to compose should emerge from his comprehensive grasp of the forms and harmonies of fado. Carlos Zel, Paulo Bragança, Paulo de Carvalho, Joana

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Clube De Fado A Musica e a Guitarra

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A Musica E A Guitarra - Clube De Fado

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Um outro olhar

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A Musica e a Guitarra

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Noitadas

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Clube de Fado a Musica e a Guitarra (Live)

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Clube Do Fado

Fados d'alma

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Música e a Guitarra

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VA AMDI Guitarra Portuguesa

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Guitarras Do Fado, Ao Viva Na Aula Magna Disc 2

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Livre

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