Bernardo Moreira

Sexteto Bernardo Moreira: Entre Paredes

by Pedro Keul
August 8, 2023

Very few outside the Portuguese-speaking world are familiar with the music of Carlos Paredes. The guitar virtuoso, born in 1925, started learning to play the Portuguese guitar when he was four years old, with his father, Artur Paredes, who was a master of the instrument. But throughout the years he developed a unique style, very different from his father. In 1958, Paredes was arrested by the political police (PIDE) of the Portuguese fascist regime and accused of being ...