Rodrigo Leão

“A Estranha Beleza da Vida” is Rodrigo Leão’s new album, released Oct. 2021 by BMG, and featuring guests like Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) & Michelle Gurevich. The new album is also part of the new compilation “A Liberdade”, which includes “O Método”, released just before the Covid-19 pandemic forced the world to lock down; And “Avis 2020”, an EP that Rodrigo recorded alone when he retreated with his family to his country home in Alentejo, in the year and a half since the start of the pandemic. “After” lockdown, Rodrigo presents a new album of original material: “A Estranha Beleza da Vida”. Before embarking on his solo career, Rodrigo Leão was one of the musicians and composers behind Portuguese ensembles Madredeus and Sétima Legião. In his 30-year career he has released several studio albums and has collaborated with Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, Ryuichi Sakamoto, among many others. Over the past few years, he performed in London's Barbican Centre, Paris’ Grand Rex or Washington's Kennedy Center, and did 3 major film soundtracks, including for Lee Daniels' Oscar-nominated “The Butler” starring Forest Whitaker. He was invited to lead the artistic festivities of the 40th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 with a free concert on the steps of the National Parliament in Lisbon and created music for an installation by the late Japanese artist and aquarist Takashi Amano, “Underwater Forests” and for the Lisbon Gulbenkian Museum exhibition “Brain – Vaster than the Sky”.