Waldemar Matuška, KTO | es

La vida de Waldemar Bastos en Angola soportó tres guerras: la lucha de su país por la independencia de Portugal, una batalla que duró desde el comienzo de los sesenta hasta la caída del dictador Salazar en 1974; la terrible guerra civil que a partir de ese momento se desencadenó y que se prolongó en el tiempo, y la propia guerra que el gobierno entabló contra los cantantes y otros artistas "contrarios" al régimen. En este contexto Waldemar comenzó su carrera musical. Su certificado de nacimiento indica que Waldemar Bastos nació en la provincia de São Salvador do Congo en...

Waldemar Matuška ['valdɛmar 'matʊʃka] (July 2, 1932 - May 30, 2009) was a Czech singer who became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1986, he emigrated to the United States. Since the Velvet Revolution he has lived in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Waldemar Matuška was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia, and spent his whole childhood in Prague. His mother was a singer in the Vienna operetta theatres. He worked as a glassmaker and performed on various musical instruments with many different bands. In 1960 he recorded his first song Suvenýr (Souvenir). Later he became an actor in the theatre Semafor. On...

Torgeir Waldemar took the Norwegian people and music press by surprise with his eponymous debut album in 2014. Who had thought that the black-clad, longhaired and bearded man would deliver an album that captivated and moved us as much as it did. An acoustic masterpiece that sounded like it came straight from the rehearsal room of a young troubadour from Laurel Canyon in the seventies. While his previous album cultivated a pure, acoustic sound, we get more rock music this time, and for Torgeir Waldemar nothing is more natural. With his background as a guitar hero in various rock bands,...