Nuno Gonçalves, The Gift.

Nuno Miguel Cândido Gonçalves, better known as Nuno Gonçalves, is a Portuguese musician, composer and pianist-keyboardist, founder and band member of the Portuguese band The Gift. Some of the band's biggest hits were created by him, including Music, Driving You Slow, Fácil de Entender, Primavera and Clássico.[1]

Career

Nuno Gonçalves, The Gift.

Originally from Alcobaça,[2] Nuno Gonçalves founded in 1994[3] the Alcobaça-based band The Gift which became a nationwide success with some international recognition.[4][5][6] He also did the remix of Rodrigo Leão's A Casa which was released as a single and on the reissue of the album. He participated with Sónia Tavares (voice of The Gift) in several live performances of Rodrigo Leão's 2000 album Alma Mater, where they performed the theme A Casa, originally performed by Adriana Calcanhoto. He has produced works by Loto and Jel, among others. He did the soundtrack for the theatre play "Scum Show" by Inestética. He was also one of the founders of the disco club Clinic in Alcobaça.[7]

Hoje (Amália Hoje) live at Fnac, Porto, 2009. Gonçalves is playing the piano.

In 2009, he led the project Hoje,[8] a Portuguese pop project created for the release of a record - the album Amália Hoje - with the reinterpretation of Amália Rodrigues' fados through a pop sound point of view. Nuno Gonçalves was responsible for the choice of the line-up, the arrangements and the musical direction of the group.[9][10][11][12] In 2022, the Amália Hoje show was performed again in two concerts at Culturgest in Lisbon and in the Alcobaça Monastery square in Alcobaça.[13][14] Nuno Gonçalves appears on the weekly RTP programme Trio D'Ataque (with Miguel Guedes and others) where he talks about football and expresses his point of view as a lover of football[15] and a supporter of Sporting Clube de Portugal.[16][17]

Personal life

Nuno Gonçalves lives in Madrid, Alcobaça and Porto, and has a daughter called Mia Alexandrina. He is a DJ outside of his band and his acclaimed activity as a musician and composer of The Gift. Throughout his life, there was a time when he played roller hockey, worked in porcelain factories, wrote for newspapers and established a now defunct online radio (Rádio Clinic) and a magazine called Verniz, as well as his disco club Clinic in his hometown Alcobaça. He took a course in journalism.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "MiniBIO: Nuno Gonçalves". Festival da Canção (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  2. ↑ s.r.o, RECO. "The Gift: de Alcobaça para o mundo". Vogue.pt (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  3. ↑ "Made In Região de Leiria: The Gift: 'património' de Alcobaça que alcançou palcos do mundo". Diário de Leiria (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  4. ↑ Porto Editora – The Gift na Infopédia [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora. [consult. 2023-05-19 02:29:55]. Disponível em https://www.infopedia.pt/$the-gift
  5. ↑ s.r.o, RECO. ""Já ou Nunca?" | Sónia Tavares e Nuno Gonçalves, The Gift". gqportugal.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  6. ↑ s.r.o, RECO. "GQ MotY 2016 | Música: The Gift". gqportugal.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  7. ↑ Pereira, Sílvia (2002-10-03). "Nuno Gonçalves, dos Gift, inaugura Clinic". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  8. ↑ Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de. "Amália Hoje - Ao Vivo no Coliseu - Musicais - RTP". www.rtp.pt. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  9. ↑ "Amália Hoje". Culturgest. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  10. ↑ "MiniBIO: Nuno Gonçalves". Festival da Canção (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  11. ↑ Costa, Por Nelson. "[ENTREVISTA] Nuno Gonçalves: A canção do Festival da Canção tem "um cunho épico"". Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  12. ↑ "Nuno Gonçalves, dos The Gift: "Queremos sempre o espectáculo como se fosse o último"". Hoje Macau (in European Portuguese). 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  13. ↑ "Amália Hoje regressam para dois concertos "únicos" em Lisboa". Expresso (in Portuguese). 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  14. ↑ Autarquia 360. "Palco no Rossio :: AMÁLIA HOJE". www.cm-alcobaca.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Comercial, Rádio. "Nuno Gonçalves (The Gift) e o Euro: "desde 2004 que vejo todos os jogos da selecção no estádio"". Rádio Comercial (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  16. ↑ Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de. "Trio d´Ataque - Desporto - RTP". www.rtp.pt. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  17. ↑ "NUNO GONÇALVES: "SPORTING CP PRECISA DE SÓCIOS COM MAIS PACIÊNCIA"". Leonino – Onde o Sporting é notícia (in European Portuguese). 2020-10-05. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  18. ↑ "Nuno Gonçalves". Gira-Discos (in European Portuguese). 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
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