We want to evolve without ever forgetting our identity. We want to celebrate the culture that characterises us and take it further. The art of improvised rhyming is not exclusive to one artistic expression. We challenged MC Dyabetik and Comissão Bordeirense de Charolas to a duel of wit and verbal puns about Faro's culture.
DYABETIK
João Pedro Martins Neves a.k.a Dyabetik was born in Faro. He started his journey in the hip-hop universe in 2004 under the artistic name Prioritário. He created the group Soldados do Rap a.k.a SDR together with MC's h2o, PP and producer Rateres. Several years of concerts and studio recordings followed where the following projects stand out:
- E.P | From nothing everything is born | 2007
- Rap Farense Mixtape | 2008
- Mixtape | Flow'nética | 2010
- Album | Sabre | 2012
- Zero Tolerance Mixtape | 2013
- E.P | BeatOteca | 2013
In the following years he focused his activity on partnerships with other creators, of which we highlight: Frontal, Common, Flexa, Okin, Rabica, Miztah by, Chester, Kabula, Peter Parker and Don Pini. In 2020 he signs solo the Dyabetik project, releasing several singles and reaching the final stage of RedBull Francamente, the biggest improvisation competition in Portugal. He is currently working on his first solo album.
- E.P | From nothing everything is born | 2007
- Rap Farense Mixtape | 2008
- Mixtape | Flow'nética | 2010
- Album | Sabre | 2012
- Zero Tolerance Mixtape | 2013
- E.P | BeatOteca | 2013
In the following years he focused his activity on partnerships with other creators, of which we highlight: Frontal, Common, Flexa, Okin, Rabica, Miztah by, Chester, Kabula, Peter Parker and Don Pini. In 2020 he signs solo the Dyabetik project, releasing several singles and reaching the final stage of RedBull Francamente, the biggest improvisation competition in Portugal. He is currently working on his first solo album.
BORDEIRENSE CHAROLAS COMMISSION
Bordeira is small in geographical area, but huge in culture, customs and traditions. It is the birthplace of numerous accordionists and poets.
At the beginning of each year, particularly on the 1st and 6th of January, Bordeira takes to the streets with its greatest tradition - the charolas - groups that sing and recite improvised verses to the sound of accordions, tambourines, castanets and trinkets. The charolas of Bordeira are profane, not religious in nature.
They sing of nostalgia, friendship, criticism, mockery, honour of the past, pride in the present, embracing the distant emigrant... they sing of Bordeira, the beloved land.
This tradition, as we know it, is a hundred years old and started with the end of the First World War and with the return of the people from Bordeira, who were received with festivity in their homeland.
The charolas are a tradition which comes in the DNA of the people of Bordeira, a hereditary tradition, which passes from generation to generation and which involves people of all ages.
At the beginning of each year, particularly on the 1st and 6th of January, Bordeira takes to the streets with its greatest tradition - the charolas - groups that sing and recite improvised verses to the sound of accordions, tambourines, castanets and trinkets. The charolas of Bordeira are profane, not religious in nature.
They sing of nostalgia, friendship, criticism, mockery, honour of the past, pride in the present, embracing the distant emigrant... they sing of Bordeira, the beloved land.
This tradition, as we know it, is a hundred years old and started with the end of the First World War and with the return of the people from Bordeira, who were received with festivity in their homeland.
The charolas are a tradition which comes in the DNA of the people of Bordeira, a hereditary tradition, which passes from generation to generation and which involves people of all ages.
In Bordeira, there are 6 active groups: A Democrata, Juvenil Bordeirense, Juventude União Bordeirense, Mocidade União Bordeirense, Sociedade Recreativa Bordeirense and União Bordeirense. Each charola gathers in the last months of the year to prepare its presentation for the year to come; songs and lyrics have to be rehearsed to enter the new year with the lesson known.
When the new year arrives, January 1st dawns with a special glow and the charolas take to the streets.
Each group usually performs in four parts: the entrance march - which can be played or played and sung -, the style - where the leader sings an improvised song, followed by the rest of the group singing the chorus and playing -, the waltz of the vivas - where any member of the group or any person from the audience can talk about anything they want - and finally the exit march - played and sung by the whole group.
This year 2020 started in Bordeira with the celebrations of the 100 years of Charolas history, and the "Centenary March" was also created, sung and played in unison by all the charolas.
Every year, on January 1st and 6th, all roads lead to Bordeira. The streets, the cafes, the Sociedade Recreativa Bordeirense,...all the places where the charolas perform fill up with people. Bordeira receives many visitors from neighbouring towns and municipalities, who have visited once to see what charolas are, and have become regular visitors, becoming also fans of this tradition. The groups themselves have also performed outside Bordeira, spreading the tradition and taking it further, having already performed in places like Santa Bárbara de Nexe, Faro, Algoz, Paderne, Estoi, Pechão, Olhão, São Brás de Alportel, Vilamoura and even in Lisbon, in the Assembly of the Republic.
This tradition greatly ennobles the people of Bordeira, who, with pride, try each year to surpass themselves and always do more and better.
Every year, on January 1st and 6th, all roads lead to Bordeira. The streets, the cafes, the Sociedade Recreativa Bordeirense,...all the places where the charolas perform fill up with people. Bordeira receives many visitors from neighbouring towns and municipalities, who have visited once to see what charolas are, and have become regular visitors, becoming also fans of this tradition. The groups themselves have also performed outside Bordeira, spreading the tradition and taking it further, having already performed in places like Santa Bárbara de Nexe, Faro, Algoz, Paderne, Estoi, Pechão, Olhão, São Brás de Alportel, Vilamoura and even in Lisbon, in the Assembly of the Republic.
This tradition greatly ennobles the people of Bordeira, who, with pride, try each year to surpass themselves and always do more and better.
