Salvador Sobral presents “The flower of the beginning” on European tour

Dand according to information available on the site and the accounts of the artist's official social networks, in Spain the tour will also pass, in addition to Bilbau, by Palma de Mallorca (26 November), Girona (27 November), Barcelona (18 January) and Seville (23 January).

Among the “first confirmed dates” of the tour “A flor do recommeço”, the name of Salvador Sobral’s album scheduled for October 16, are concerts in Lisbon and Porto.

The singer acts on March 2 at the Grand Auditorium of the Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), in Lisbon, and on March 6 at Sala Suggia da Casa da Música, in Porto. Tickets are already on sale and prices vary between 15 and 40 euros in the CCB and 27 and 35 euros in the Casa da Música.

This year, the European tour also includes concerts in Norway, in Oslo, on 28 October; in the Netherlands, in Tilburg, on 3 December, Rotterdam, on 4 December, Leeuwarden, on 5 December, and Amsterdam, on 6 December; and in Lithuania, Kaunas, on 11 December, and Vilnius, on 12 December.

As early as 2027 and after concerts in Spain and Portugal, Salvador Sobral plays in the United Kingdom on April 21, in Bristol, April 22, in Manchester, April 24, in London, and April 25, in Brighton.

On the tour, the singer will be accompanied by a band composed by Katerina L’Dokova (piano), André Rosinha (contrabass), Eva Fernández (saxofone), Joel Silva (battery and percussion) and Sebastiá Gris (guitars).

“The flower of the beginning” is an album made of novel themes by Brazilian musicians such as Adriana Calcanhotto, Arnaldo Antunes, Chico César, Céu, Marcelo Camel, Mallu Magalhães, Marcos Valle and Tim Bernardes

The one that is Salvador Sobral’s first album with “only Brazilian compositions was recorded in São Paulo and produced by Brazilians Marcus Preto and Tó Brandileone, according to Warner Music Portugal, in a statement released in June.

In addition, the new work was recorded with a band of Brazilian musicians: Tiago Costa (piano), Fábio Sá (contrabass), Conrado Goys (guitar), Sergio Machado (bateria) and Felipe Roseno (percussion).

“ The idea was not to make a ‘Brazilian disc’, but a record of Brazilian composers played by Brazilian musicians and sung by a Portuguese artist. Otherwise, we could fall into the trap of sounding like a caricature of Brazilian music with a strange accent ", said Salvador Sobral, quoted in the statement.

The musician, who is “absolutely convinced that music was born in Brazil”, shared that she grew up listening to Maria Bethânia in her mother’s car and Chico César in her father’s car.

Salvador Sobral also told us that the new album “emerges from the need to go to the supreme origin to deepen and discover the timeless sounds of this other side of the Atlantic”.

Born in Lisbon, 1989, Salvador Sobral edited the debut album, “Excuse me”, in 2016. In his own name, he also edited the albums “Paris, Lisboa” (2019), “BPM” (2021) and Timbre (2023), and the EP “Sal” (2022), to which he joins projects in which he participated with other musicians, namely Alexander Search, with Júlio Resende, in which he sings poems of the semi-heteronym Fernando Pessoa, Alma Nuestra, Noko Woi, which he shares with Leonardo Aldrey, Silvia Pérez Cruz and First Breath After Coma.

In February this year, Salvador Sobral removed all albums from the streaming platform Spotify – “the one that pays the worst to the authors” and promotes music created by AI – aware that the decision can be detrimental to your career.

Ask the platform to remove the albums that it recorded in its own name “it was easy” in the case of “Excuse Me”, the first one that edited, for being the owner of the ‘master’, told Lusa in February.

Already withdrawing others, edited under a licensing contract with a record company, ended up giving more work, but anyone who wants to listen to the Portuguese musician's albums will already have to resort to other platforms.

In addition to the solo albums that he edited, Salvador Sobral also has collaborations with other artists, who remain available at Spotify, but managed to get his sister, Luísa Sobral, to withdraw “Amar for the two”, a theme with which Portugal won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017.

“ There are still several versions available, but not the single version. I wish there weren't any, but I can't control the other contracts and the collaborations I made. I can’t force people to take away the music”, he said.

Anyone who wants to listen online to Salvador Sobral’s creations on the ground can resort to other streaming services, namely Qobuz, “the only ethical and fair platform” that the musician found.

“That’s where my music is. It's also on Apple Music, YouTube, platforms that aren't guilt-free, but so many things at the same time, all these factors, there's no other that brings them all together. And Spotify is the worst paid”, he said.

For Salvador Sobral that platform is “the first enemy to be shot down” and, for this, “I would like more people to join the boycott”.