Manu Chao returns to Portugal for a free concert at the Maio Festival – Music

Manu Chao performs in Portugal next month as part of the fifth edition of the May Festival. The news was announced by the president of Seixal City Council, Paulo Silva, at the beginning of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April in the municipality, in Parque da Quinta dos Franceses, on the evening of last Wednesday, April 24th.

Without indicating a date or location, the mayor confirmed the next edition of the event and also that of the Seixal World Music festival, which will take place at Parque Urbano José Afonso, in Miratejo, from May 31st to June 2nd.

The fourth edition of the May Festival took place in May last year at Parque Urbano do Seixal and featured Gabriel, the Thinker, Peaches, Sam The Kid with Orelha Negra, Moullinex and Prétu. The artistic direction was in charge of the musician Luís Varatojo.

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In addition to performing at the Maio Festival, Manu Chao will perform acoustically at the Contrasta Festival, which returns to Valença on the 12th and 13th of July.

Born in Paris into an exiled Spanish family, the singer and musician adopts several languages ​​in his artistic work, which has a marked political component, since the days of the band Mano Negra.

His rise to fame came with the album “Clandestino”, from 1998, in which he sang, in free translation: “Alone I go with my pen, alone goes my condemnation / Running is my destiny to avoid the law / Lost in the heart of the great Babylon / They call me ‘the clandestine’ for not having papers.”

In 2020, in a text entitled “Manu Chao: chronicle of the star who turned his back on the system”, the Spanish newspaper El País wrote that “there is certainly no musician in recent years like him, capable of turning his back on the system when he could take so many things about him.”