José Camilo

José Camilo

José Camilo is an artist who likes to position himself between the careful lyrics and refined diction of some of the noblest singers and the fast beat accompanied by the distorted guitar of punk-rockers. Born in Queluz, with "24 Horas no Subúrbio" from 2013, he created a concept album about what it was like to grow up in a city on the Sintra Line, in the shadow of the capital, the big city. They had melancholic songs, but at the same time strongly rooted in rock, with intense guitars, in a sound inspired by the 90s, but far from being anchored in this decade. In 2016, with his second album called “Obra Camiliana”, melancholy turned into anger and suburbia in the immense Portugal, with José Camilo offering us an album of dirty guitars and dizzying speed drums. In 2018, it was time for José Camilo to show himself less as a rocker and more as a song writer. With the four-song EP “Sem Rei nem Rock”, the artist appeared more naked and the powerful rock drums from previous albums gave way to acoustic guitar. He thus earned the nickname “Punkauthor”. In 2019, he once again surrounded himself with his Cúmplices (the band that accompanies him live) to return to energetic rock with the album “Subterrâneo”. In 2021, guitars gave way to keyboards, song lyrics to poems without rhyme or chorus and the singing voice was replaced by spoken word. A spoken word album with the electronics of Cláudia Correia who also produces the music and a book of poems by José Camilo entitled “Poets must not be boring, but readers cannot be stupid”. Now, José Camilo invites Cúmplices to go from live band to recording partners and responsible for arranging the songs he composes. Unlike what happened before, this is an album recorded together, with the arrangements to be created on the spot by the musicians and will have the appropriate name “José Camilo and His Cúmplices”.