Lucky Duckies celebrates 35 years of career at the Lisbon and Porto coliseums
Marco António, from the Lucky Duckies, says that the Personality of the Year award given by O MIRANTE was a great help for the band’s growth
Music has the power to defibrillate the memory and that is why it has never been so important to leave the house and go to concert halls as it is now. The idea is defended by Marco António, vocalist and founder of the band Lucky Duckies, from Póvoa de Santa Iria, which on the 23rd and 29th of April will take to the stages of the Coliseums in Porto and Lisbon in two concerts to mark the 35-year career. . By way of anticipation, the musician from Póvoa de Santa Iria tells O MIRANTE about the charm of performing in two of the most emblematic concert halls in the country and many vintage, swing and rock and roll themes.
“The coliseums are of central importance to us. These are mythical rooms. We have always been very much loved in the north of the country and in Lisbon we are playing at home, so we will do our best”, she promises. From the vain go unpublished themes and memorable songs from other times that continue to snatch from other times that continue to snatch from other times of Lucky Doubts. “It will be a show unlike anything they’ve seen so far, with a vintage stage decor and an intimate feel, because the digital pyrotechnics are very beautiful but can take over half an hour. We want an organic, distraction-free concert so that the audience can focus on our music,” she says.
The Lucky Duckies took their first steps in the late 80s in a rehearsal room at Grémio Dramático Povoense and on April 25, 1987 – Marco António’s birthday – they performed in an intimate concert for friends that was a success. Since then, the group has never stopped and has established itself in Portugal in the revivalist genre, inspired by artists of the 50s and 60s such as Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davies Jr. They began by paying tribute to the great classics of rock and roll and immersing themselves in a whole musical nostalgia inspired by swing jazz, blues, bossa nova and classics of Portuguese music.
The Importance of Being Personality of the Year
The Lucky Duckies were O MIRANTE’s Personality of the Year, in the area of Culture, in 2013. “It was very important and a moment of great pride, artistic, personal and from Ribatejo. MIRANTE is the regional newspaper that has the most impact in Portugal and when we shared the news that we had been disrespected Personality of the Year, our project started even more and put us on new stages”, he confesses. The musician says that despite the band’s 35 years being so young, the group has never felt young like it is now. “Good music enters through our senses and remains a classic, even if other trends emerge. Fashions passing the classics will always be classics,” he concludes.