Last week, he gave me a very interesting interview surrounded of honesty and a very cool afternoon in the middle of a park.
Fuck Yeah Music Stories: How did you start into the music world?
Bernardo: Around my 13 years, when I received my first electric guitar at Christmas. After I started to have classes.
FYMS: How do you think your music formation is?
B: I think it's not that good. Anybody that really loves music thinks their formation is already good enough and I think there's never going to be a moment that I'll say that I'm done learning.
FYMS: Tell me some artists that really inspire you.
B: Probably, first is Eric Clapton, than is Slash, AC/DC and The Doors.
FYMS: What do you think about the importance given to music, in Portugal?
B: I think we still don't give much importance here and it's not a world that is very explored. There are a lot of underrated artists in Portugal exactly because there's no one to discover them.
FYMS: Would you bet on Portuguese music?
B: Nowadays I wouldn't bet in Portugal. Maybe one day I will but not from the past or present.
FYMS: Which are your biggest dreams?
B: In terms of career my dream is to have a successful career and explore the maximum number of areas and instruments and absolutely a solid music formation.
Personally, be happy. That's all I want.
FYMS: The hardest moment in your life?
B: My father's death.
FYMS: How did that influenced you as a person and as a musician?
B: As a person, I think it made me enjoy every happy moment I have, without underestimating it nor having my happiness for guaranteed, made me realize it's the most precious thing I have.
As a musician, I give much more value to music with a greater emotional message and written with more feeling.
FYMS: How would you describe yourself as an artist?
B: Probably I would describe me as a Dreamer, Confident, Obsessive and Passionate.
FYMS: Did your formation in Visual Arts changed your vision of the world, in any way?
B: Yes. Made me realize that the music area is the one that really pulls for me, what gives me more pleasure and the one I really want to explore.
FYMS: What's the maddest thing you've ever done?
B: I'm more crazy than mad, those are very different things. My maddest moment is yet to happen.
FYMS: Which is your next step in the music world?
B: My next step is the Hot Club Jazz, in Lisbon, that's what I'm going to do the next years.
FYMS: I know you have some live experiences. What did you feel the first time you went to stage?
B: I think there's really nothing we can think about. Everything erases from your memory, you stop seeing things, you just feel them. If you love what you do, you feel that is real and true.
FYMS: Do you prefer to be a solo artist or be part of a band?
B: The best is to start in a band and end up with a solo career. I think that a band it's the best beginning there is, at least, that's what history has shown us.
FYMS: An artist you would give everything to trade with?
B: Eric Clapton, absolutely. I would trade right away.
FYMS: An artist that had surprised you recently?
B: Led Zeppelin - It's one of my biggest inspirations. They have a very uncommon geniality that I didn't know or at least I did underestimated. It's one of those things that really surprised me. I had to listen Led Zeppelin with all my attention to understand it.
FYMS: The best show you've ever been to?
B: Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck in London.
FYMS: And the one you regret to have missed?
B: Every time I see a show that I want to go, I buy the ticket. When I like, I never regret because I know what I'm going to. It's money well spent.
FYMS: Artists that have disappointed you.
B: I'm going to say Pink Floyd and Dire Straits. Pink Floyd because they're too valued for something they aren't that good and Dire Straits for not being as much successful as Mark Knopler's solo career.
FYMS: Do you associate music to moments of your life?
B: Yes, but I associate to phases not moments. At some phase of my life I would only listen to Metal just for revolt, that's the best example.
FYMS: A song that will never be out of fashion.
B: Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton- it's a timeless classic. Back In Black by AC/DC it's one of my bases as a musician.
FYMS: Complete this sentences...
a) One Day...
B: ... I'll be playing for millions of people, that's kind of my dream
b) The best thing people can say about me...
B: ...Is about my effort, passion and hard work about what I do, it's good when people notice it.
c) And the worst...
B: ...To give up my dreams.
d) In ten years...
B: ... I don't think about my future very much, I love to live day by day. Sometimes, it's hard for me to think what to do on the next day. This exercise is hard for me, absolutely useless.
FYMS: What would you tell to FYMS readers?
B: Always believe in yourself because everyone has its value.
Special thanks to Carolina Seabra (photography), Jorge Antunes (live video excerpt) and Teresa Agudo.
I'm a music man, or at least trying to be, and I must admit that after I read your seventh answer, I started to see you and this interview with different eyes. And all I got to say is that I share your feelings, more than you imagine.
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