The singer Simone de Oliveira was awarded this Friday, in a ceremony at the Belém Palace, in Lisbon, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, announced the Presidency of the Republic.
Simone de Oliveira, who ended her career in March with a concert at the Coliseu dos Recreios, in Lisbon, he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousaaccording to a note published on the official website of the Presidency.
Simone de Oliveira says goodbye to the stage after 65 years of career
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had announced on March 29, on the sidelines of the closing concert of the 65th anniversary of Simone de Oliveira’s career, that he would award the singer, without revealing when he would do so.
In an interview in March, Simone de Oliveira acknowledged being, at 84, “very tired”. On the same occasion, she admitted to being a “little different old woman”, who likes to have a whiskey with friends or a beer with pussy, but she assumes that she is “old, old”.
“I can’t be young at 84,” she said, sharing how sorry it makes her to see people her age “being abused, ignored, often by their own children.” “Remember the old. Old things have yesterday”appealed.
Simone sang how she wanted, when she wanted: the last time on stage, she left a blank verse waiting for the future
In 2020, after an absence from the stages due to the confinement to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, Simone de Oliveira performed in Lisbon and, at the time, said: “this never happened to me. I’ve already lost my voice, I’ve got it back, I’ve already been to the Algarve with some health problems, but right now this confinement is very complicated.”
In 1969, Simone de Oliveira won the RTP Song Contest for the second time with “Desfolhada Portuguesa”, with which she represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest in Madrid.
Although she has a repertoire of more than 400 songs, Simone de Oliveira will always be remembered as the woman who, in 1969, during the Estado Novo, sang on television that “whoever makes a child does it for pleasure”.
At the end of that year he lost his voice. Simone de Oliveira then did journalism, radio, broadcasting and presented the Miss Portugal contest and shows at the Peninsular Casino in Figueira da Foz.
The interpreter of “Sol de Verão”, meanwhile, recovered her voice, recorded an album with songs written by José Cid, and in 1973 she returned to the RTP Festival with “Apenas o meu povo”, winning the Interpretation Award.
Source: Observadora
