Rodrigo Lourenço (“The Voice Portugal”): “I ran because I didn’t lose anything. Now I want to start a career”
Rodrigo Lourenço, winner of the contest “The Voice Portugal”
At the age of 17, Rodrigo Lourenço was crowned, last Sunday, the winner of “The Voice Portugal”. Before participating in the talent contest, where he had António Zambujo as a mentor, Lourenço fed his YouTube channel with versions of songs by other artists, such as Rui Veloso, Sia, Harry Styles or Carlos do Carmo.
Despite having attended guitar lessons since the age of 6, vocation would take after Canto do Conservatory of Castelo Branco, the young albicastrist Cursos Secundário that the Secondary course his first television experience in the program of his first television experience at the end of last year. Now, in February 2022, he comes out with the scepter of winner of the ninth edition of “The Voice Portugal”, a contract with the Universal publisher awaiting him.
In an interview with the site Sapo Magg, Rodrigo Lourenço confesses that he decided to “apply for the program because there was nothing to lose in doing it”. “It was also to get to know myself, to understand what my value was and if I was really good at singing. He never thought he would make it this far or win.”
“I am a more confident person and I believe in myself much more”, declares the young man who, throughout the competition, played songs by Amália Rodrigues, Queen or Adelaide Ferreira, having in the final the artist performed a duet with Gisela João in ‘Louca’, song from the Barcelos fado singer’s repertoire. “Now what I want is to start a career, to start releasing originals,” he promises.