In one of the concerts that Tina Turner gave in Portugal, 33 years ago, at the Estádio de Alvalade, the first part was performed by Delfins. Fernando Cunha, guitarist of the band, remembers that it was a memorable show.
“It was very good on a technical level. There were 50 or 60 thousand people there. I don’t remember exactly, but the old Estádio de Alvalade was completely full. We were very well received by the entire Tina Turner production team, we met the entire band. Curiously, , our dressing room was very well equipped for catering, with a fridge full of alcoholic beverages – beers and so on – something that Tina Turner did not have because she could not drink alcohol – at the door to give them a few beers on the sly. the band. She came, she got on stage and disappeared right away, it was very fast. We just watched her play. She was very good, she was still at the height of her career, but they already called her the grandmother of rock. She was very good, she was brutal for the conditions that existed at that time,” he recalled. TSF Fernando Cunha.
The band’s vocalist, Miguel Ângelo, also did not forget the energy that the queen of rock left on stage.
“It was a great show. Tina Turner is that stage animal that everyone knows, not only for her voice but for her movement, energy and good humor that she contagious. There were 65,000 people in the stadium. There was no one standing. all dancing, with a smile on her face and the big Tina Turner emblem was how she managed to combine all that contagious energy with her career as a performer. she clothes for the encore and then she left again with a police escort, there was no chance of finding her, ”Miguel Ângelo recalled.
Álvaro Ramos, from Ritmos e Blues, remembers the same concert in Alvalade.
“It was fire, what we knew. A woman on stage. She gave a fabulous show that excited more than 50,000 people. It was one of the first concerts in stadiums in Portugal. Until 1990, Portugal had not received an artist at this level , he was one of the first big stars to come to Portugal. That’s why he had an impact on us. Then we repeated it in another stadium, in 1996. It was a success. It also sold out very quickly and showed us that he had a unique position in the music scene of then and now, for everything it represented”, recalled Álvaro Ramos.
In Portugal there are several admirers of this North American legend, as is the case of João Pedro Pais. The composer and musician considers that we are talking about the “best singer in the world”.
“I’ve never seen anything like it, next to Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige. Only after them came Whitney Houston, Beyoncé and company. Tina was something from another world, there is no explanation. She had charisma as a performer. I saw the concert at the Estádio do Restelo, the last time she performed in a stadium in Portugal, and she was almost 60 years old there. She is something from another world. I speak very slow and thoughtful because it is difficult for me. believe. It is very This news is rare. Unacceptable,” said João Pedro Pais.
Source: TSF
