My name is Plácido Vaz,
but everyone knows me as Plax. I'm twenty-nine years old.
I'm from São Miguel, Santiago Island, in Cape Verde.
I've been living in in Porto for ten years.
I like the city a lot. It's a very quiet city
and it identifies itself with me.
I'm a musician, I have a job
and I'm also a student.
It's a lot to do!
My day usually starts around six, six-thirty.
I have to get up really early to go to work.
I pack my bag, I have breakfast
And I'm on my way to Casa da Música station
to catch the bus.
When I come back from work,
I rest for a while, have a bath,
and then sometimes I sit down and play,
practice a bit, and think about Cape Verde,
because of homesickness and all the rest.
On weekends, I rehearse with my guys.
We are trying to promote our passion
here in the city.
So, we formed a band
and we started rehearsing roughly a month ago.
I left Cape Verde in 2006
and came to Portugal with the intention to study.
Back then, I was eighteen years old
and I was basically going through that age transformation.
I arrived here in the heart of Winter,
it was very rainy. I remember it well.
So, I came to Porto.
At that time, I didn't know anyone in Porto.
It was quite a shock for me
getting into this gloomy place.
So, that was the first impression I had of Porto.
I stayed here for seven years without visiting Cape Verde.
Can you imagine that?
In the beginning, I was quite fortunate
because I had the chance to live with
other compatriots.
Even so, that doesn't fill the void of being away from home.
So, one thing led to another because it's only
when you're away from home that you start thinking about
all those things you used to have.
That feeling made my homesickness worst.
Back then, I was living in a house where
people played guitar.
So, I got the music bug.
And as time went by, I felt an increasing
need to learn about music from Cape Verde.
Being far away from home and wanting to go back
and not being able to,
led me to get in touch with my roots.
Roots that I was basically unaware of
In 2012, I started writing. I still have that notebook.
I started writing about my feelings.
After a while, I started noticing that most
of my writings were about homesickness,
about being away from home
From 2012 to 2013, things got worst.
I couldn't bear being away from home any longer.
In that period, I wrote a lot about
this feeling of being away.
At that time, I got a job
and I told myself that I was going
to work with the unique purpose of saving
money to go to Cape Verde.
The future?
I have dreams.
Dreams that sometimes seem too big
For me, the future will be all about music
From that point on, I have many ideas
I want to change some things about the world
If music provides me with a platform
to express myself and set a good example,
then I believe that music will be
the best way for me to contribute to the Future.
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