The singer and composer from Pará Márcio Moreira is about to release his first career album, REpartir, and promises to surprise with strong partnerships. Among the highlights, the album features an unreleased track in collaboration with the renowned Michael Sullivan, in addition to guest appearances by artists such as Roberto Menescal, Lia Sophia, Laila Garin and Renato Torres. With release scheduled for November 11th on all music platforms, the project brings an engaging mix of Brazilian rhythms with a special touch of Amazonian culture.
Composed of 10 tracks, 9 of which are original, REpartir is a poetic journey through the experiences, emotions and experiences of Márcio Moreira throughout his career. The album reflects the artistic maturity of the singer, who allowed himself to assume his position in music after a period of reflection and maturity. The project also features the participation of other great artists, such as Luiz Lopez, the record’s music producer, and Laila Garin, who shines not only as a singer, but also as an actress in the track “O que é pra ser”, ending the album with a special touch.
To bring out the essence of his Pará roots, Márcio Moreira invited Luiz Lopez, a carioca in love with the rhythms of Pará, to produce REpartir. The result is a work that carries the aroma of Pará, but without losing the connection with Brazilian music in its most universal essence. With songs that speak to the heart of the masses, the album promises to be a remarkable and moving experience for the public.
How was the experience of releasing your first career album?
It really is a different experience than simply releasing a single or an EP. It is the opportunity to present a broader work, a narrative that, in fact, has a beginning, middle and end and, at the same time, becomes a kind of outline of the composer and artist that he is today. A definitive record of what I felt and experienced at the time of recording
Could you tell us a little about the partnerships present on the album “REpartir”?
Repartir is an album of very symbolic partnerships in my trajectory. From Renato Torres, in the title song, who was my teacher at school and became a friend for life, passing through friends in my age group such as Daiane Gasparetto, Gabriel Andrade, Arthur Silveira and Alessandro Bachini, sensitive soul artists who unite with me in thought and affection. There is also Luiz Lopez, who is responsible for producing the album and has been developing my musicality hand in hand with me and, of course, the huge honor of having a dancing ballad with Michael Sullivan, that unique hitmaker in our country, and a bossa with Roberto Menescal, the father of the genre and the most generous soul I’ve ever met in the industry. It is, without a doubt, an album of great affection.
What is the story behind the track “As Cores das Flores” and your relationship with Roberto Menescal?
*I met this giant of Brazilian music while producing another project, which he was recording with Leila Pinheiro and Rodrigo Santos. We had an immediate connection when it came to music and poetry. We quickly began exchanging experiences and, one day, I found an article in the newspaper that told that Menesca was going up the Petrópolis mountain range to participate in a bromeliad contest. It was then that I discovered this amazing hobby of this genius. He grows beautiful flowers. This touched me in such a way that I wrote the poem As Cores das Flores and sent it to him. With his kindness and his immense soul, he answered me with the poem set to music and I invited him to record with me and together we could immortalize this meeting, which fills me with pride and joy.”
What was it like working with renowned hitmaker Michael Sullivan on the track “Vá Idade”?
Sullivan is a rare human being, he manages to balance talent and humility like few others in the music industry. He was the first big name who heard my compositions and said he could stand up. Composing with him is something very natural, for an artist like him who has more than 1500 hits, sitting down, picking up a guitar and creating a melody is almost like breathing, and I took the opportunity to breathe with him lol compositions that we made together and that, little by little, we reveal around. It is worth remembering that this song also features the partnership of Anayle, his wife, who is also a unique talent and always contributes with brilliant poetic and melodic solutions.
The album has a strong influence of Pará culture. How did you balance regional identity with a more universal approach?
*How cool that you caught that! This was perhaps one of my greatest desires with this work. As I am, above all, a composer, the musical genre of my songs has always been very free. Sometimes a pop ballad, sometimes a bossa, sometimes a samba and talking to my music producer Luiz Lopez, I came to the conclusion that the amalgam that would unite this diversity of styles in my work would be the Latin-Amazonian influence that has accompanied me since the cradle. As a good person from Pará, this sound of guitars and atabaques has always been a big part of my poetry. Luiz was essential in this search and in the result we found.”
What was Lia Sophia’s participation in the track “Te Quis de Cara” and how did that contribute to the project?
Te Quis de Cara had another letter lol… Completely different. I gave it to Luiz (Lopez) to compose the music and he came up with such a tropical melody, with such an Amazonian essence that I immediately rewrote the lyrics from scratch and, with each verse, I imagined Lia Sophia’s voice singing with me. She is a most wonderful artist with a unique voice and a power of interpretation that has always touched me, since I was a boy, still in Belém. When she agreed to sing with me, a beginner artist, I couldn’t believe it. Her generosity was embarrassing and more… She not only put her voice to the lyrics, but also proposed vocalizations and solfeggio that gave the song an even more special dimension… I owe a lot to Lia’s affection and generosity on this track.. I will be forever grateful
Explain the choice of Laila Garin as an actress on the track “O que é pra ser” and how she adds a special element to the album.
I worked with Laila for about 2 years at the label, when she was launching the brilliant musical project she has with Roda. This woman’s talent and soul crossed me in such a special way that I started to follow her wherever she went. New series, new part was always there. One day, still unsure whether or not my work would be released, I watched Clarice Lispector’s “A Hora da Estrela” (The Hour of the Star) and she, playing an incredible Macabéa, came to the backstage and began to recite a text about the reason for our existence and the apathy of those who just exist. I took that scene as a call, so I found in the Bible verses that allude to the prodigal son, the synthesis of what this work represented: “Behold my beloved son who was lost, and now he is found, he was dead and now he lives”, as if it were art itself welcoming me back to its home and nothing better than the woman who gave me that call on stage to represent that same moment… how lucky for me to accept it and her affection for me in recording these words. Definitively mark my career
Of the 10 tracks on the album, 9 are original. What is the meaning of these compositions for you?
I believe an artist’s first album is an important part of his life. Everything he has seen and experienced up to this point is trying to be represented in this set of tracks that are there. It’s no different with me. Repartir has tracks I defended at the school festival, still pre-teen and discovering love. It has tracks from the pandemic experience as an adult in crisis. It has partnerships from yesterday and now. It is in fact a Departure towards my artistic self in its power.
Could you tell us about the track “O Próprio Pão” and the connection you feel with this composition?
I don’t consider myself an interpreter of songs as we have so many amazing ones in Brazil. I feel much more like a singer-songwriter. Someone who sincerely defends what he composed and wrote, however, when I was selecting my compositions and partnerships for the album, Gabriel Andrade, who is my partner in a dozen songs, showed me his recording of “O Próprio Pão”, the lyrics spoke so much with the sense of Departir para mim, about this need to look at oneself and be more generous with our own choices. If you’ll forgive me, I saw the poetics of these verses combined with the theme I had outlined for the album, I appropriated it and I think that, in the end, it made the most sense for what I wanted to say with this work.
“REpartir” represents a new beginning for you in music. How would you describe this journey and what do you hope for the future?
I think not only in music, but in art. I’ve always been a plural artist, who acted, danced, sang, wrote… all together and mixed, but the demands of adult life slowed down that momentum in me, unfortunately. Repartir came to set everything on fire again. To show that I am a being of artistic essence and nothing can tell me otherwise. So after this work was recorded and released I went back to what is vital in me: the scene. I have already presented the show, the result of this album, in Rio, in São Paulo, in Brasília, I am going to Belém for the second time, always taking with me this commitment that I have with art. With poetry, with the beauty that brings rest and joy to those who allow themselves to watch.
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