Wolf Manhattan: “Creating an alter ego was a relief, because I thought: I don’t need to expose anything about my private life”

Wolf Manhattan is João Vieira and, at the same time, he is not João Vieira; he is the alter ego he found to bring these songs to life, far from the danceable themes of X-Wife and White Haus and his journey as DJ Kitten, when the focus is on dancing and making people dance. The love, here, is for Lou Reed and David Bowie, it is for the pop format of the song, for the clarity of the story that is narrated in verse. “Real Life Is Overrated” is the title of your second album as Wolf Manhattan and it makes perfect sense: if real life doesn’t excite us, let’s create a parallel life.

Produced and performed with the help of André Tentugal, and with Monday and Jenna-Marie Laine as guest voices on three songs, “Real Life Is Overrated” abandons the aesthetic lo-fi from the first album, the same name, from 2022, in the desire to be “a bigger album”, as the musician explains in a conversation with BLITZ. Next Saturday, the capital’s music lovers will be able to enter, again or for the first time, the Wolf Manhattan universe, with the presentation of the album at CCB. For now, here’s a tip: imagination is a precious asset.

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