Little João Simão da Silva, whenever he could, went to the door of his older brother’s school in Mourão, waiting for bread with butter and a glass of milk. “I just liked to sing, whether it was for a glass of milk or candy, what I liked was to sing.” The simple snack, remembered as a pleasant memory that one wants to live so much, is remembered to the Observer by João Simão, today, yesterday and tomorrow, known as Marco Paulo, one of the great Portuguese romantic singers, with millions of records sold. . Now, at 77, he will remember his life through a miniseries about himself on SIC, produced by Coral, with a premiere scheduled for January 1, 2023. “I can’t sleep, I have anxiety,” he says the singer.
The story will be told in three acts, going through Marco Paulo’s childhood, adolescence and adult life, on a journey from the 1940s, when he was born, to his first cancer, going through his military incursion and the difficult relationship with his father, who never accepted that the singer decided to choose this career. It was developed by Fernando Luís and Diogo Martins (among others), Manuel Pureza (“Pôr do Sol”) directed it, Vera Sacramento, Susana Tavares and Sara Rodi (Coral) wrote the script. Marco Paulo, who saw some scenes recorded in his house in Sintra, only asked for one thing: “I didn’t want to invent things, or anything that wasn’t true. I didn’t want them to change anything I told them”, says the interpreter of hits like “Eu Tem Dois Amores”.
Despite his already long career, Marco Paulo “never imagined” that his life could become a series. In this exercise, sometimes joyful, sometimes hard, the singer is not sure how he will react next Sunday when he is a spectator of his own life on the small screen. Especially if the subject is your parents. Your first cancer. Going through military service. Basically everything. “The discussions I had with my father, who did not want artists in the house, he preferred to get into finance like him. But he didn’t want to know, he did mini concerts for employees in the places where he worked. I don’t know how it’s going to be. My mother saved me from drowning in Arcos de Valdevez. I don’t know how I’m going to react when I’m ‘checking’ for my first cancer. At my mother’s funeral. Or when she was in Guinea. It’s going to be very difficult,” he says.
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Source: Observadora
