At Sunday night’s concert the audience from Bucharest’s Radio
Hall vibrated on Fado notes under the
spell of Dulce Pontes incredible voice and talent.
Maria Gheorghiu, the only folk singer in Romania who sings Fado was between the spectators of a magical
evening. She made a cover after “Cancao
do Mar” and Dulce Pontes found out about the artistic act, six years ago, through
a friend. Dulce sent her appreciations to Maria by e-mail telling her that she
has a “fatidic and kind voice, with a round Portuguese accent” and that she can
sing Fado with great success. “I am thrilled
that we meet under the same Sun. I thank you for taking a part of me and I’m
ashamed that I could not be the first to offer it to you” she told Maria.
The two singers meet back stage and bounded a unique
friendship sealed with a hug.
“I was waiting for the meeting with Dulce like a lost
traveller in the desert waiting to drink water”, Maria confessed. “I needed to
see her, to hear Dulce sing and look into her eyes. I needed for her to see how
much I appreciate what she offered to me when I first heard her sing. It’s impossible
to listen to Dulce and not wish to become better. It’s impossible not to be
touched in the depth of your soul by the generosity with which she offers her heart,
that generosity that just great spirits still have it”.
It was an evening; it was a meeting that Maria will never
forget. For an hour and a half, she studied Dulce Pontes and she let herself to
enter in a world beyond her imagination.
“I saw her playing on the stage; I saw her transforming at
every song…. For an hour and a half I lived outside the exterior world, fascinated
by hers. The world could have just collapse around me, the walls of the Radio
Hall could have cave in while she was singing and I wouldn’t have seen anything,
because it was no room for anything else to be seen. Dulce Pontes, I thank you
for teaching me how to love the Sea singing Cancao
do Mar, I thank you for teaching me how to love and understand Fado , I thank you for the music of the
world, which now because of you, matches my world too!”
Maria – Cassandra Modoaca
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