The Legendary Tigerman
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Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
performer in a one-man-band style. With a singular style, Furtado plays guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, harmonica
Harmonica
The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
and drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
alone on stage.
Paulo Furtado is also the leading vocalist and primary songwriter of the Portuguese rock band Wraygunn
Wraygunn
Wraygunn are a Portuguese band formed in Coimbra, in early 1999. Their music is a mix of rock, soul, gospel and blues. Paulo Furtado says their sound is something like Elvis singing in a space shuttle...
and played in the also Portuguese rockabilly
Rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development...
group Tédio Boys... In 2009, Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
invited Paulo Furtado to open for him as The Legendary Tigerman. He has played all over the world, from Japan to the United States of America, but mostly in Europe, since 1999.
Biography
He was born in MozambiqueMozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
, in September of 1970, where he lived until age one. He then moved to Coimbra
Coimbra
Coimbra is a city in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, it is better-known for its university, the University of Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
with his parents.
Discography
He has released 5 albums:- 2002: Naked BluesNaked Blues- Track listing :# Gonna Shoot My Woman# Naked Blues# Break My Bone# I'll Make You Mine# Sauselito 1PM# Mannish Boy# Lust# I'm Just a Man# Sometimes I Miss You- References :Rate Your Music...
- Subotnick Enterprises - 2003: Fuck Christmas, I Got the BluesFuck Christmas, I Got the BluesFuck Christmas, I Got The Blues is the second studio album by the artist The Legendary Tigerman, released in 2003.- Track listing :# In Cold Blood# Fuck Christmas, I Got The Blues# Don't You Murder Me# Crawdad Hole...
- Subotnick Enterprises - 2004: In Cold Blood - Subotnick Enterprises
- 2006: Masquerade - Nortesul/BMG
- 2009: Femina - Metrodiscos