Helder Moutinho is one of the most charismatic and genuine fadistas of today.

Interpreter, composer and poet, profoundly aware of the secrets, codes and mysteries of Fado, Helder Moutinho has more than twenty years of career dedicated to the inheritance he received from his family and the great masters who crossed his life, thus making him a Worshiper. A heritage that cherishes, preserves and amplifies for an increasingly contemporary fado. In “Writing in Destiny”, the new show sings love and longing, past and future, life and travel - musical, poetic, metaphorical, temporal, geographical… The stories that have been made, (re ) done and (dis) done your destiny to sing to Fado…

After some albums in which he was overwhelmingly devoted to interpreting traditional fados with his founding poems or new poems (some of his own), to which some original compositions have always been added - Helder Moutinho publishes in 2013 the album “ 1987 ”and affirms itself before the critic as one of the most important interpreters of the new century. In 2016 launches “The Heart Manual”, in which all poems are signed by João Monge - one of the most famous Portuguese poets - and the music is also in charge of some of the most important Portuguese composers: Mário Laginha, Vitorino, João Gil , Zeca Medeiros, Manuel Paulo, Marco Oliveira, Pedro da Silva Martins or Ricardo Parreira. An album unanimously praised by fado lovers and critics, I guess in many of these new fados… future traditional fados. Which is another way of saying: inheritance received, inheritance (re) transmitted.

Born in Oeiras, in a family where fado was and is always present - great-grandson, son and brother of fado singers - Helder Moutinho soon contacted the great songs of fado. And soon he was thrilled with the words he heard and fell in love with the puzzling and changing things he guessed in this beautiful, mysterious, circumspect and deep song.

It was there, where the Tagus meets the Atlantic, that Helder Moutinho began writing fado poems. And it was later, at the end of adolescence, that came the revelation: when singing one of her poems to Beatriz da Conceição, the great fado singer asks her: "The boy sings too?".

Sings, then. And never stopped. In the early 1990s, Helder Moutinho was at the forefront of a new bottom wave, which contributed decisively to the resurgence and revival of fado. He made the circuit of the fado houses, where he eagerly drank the teachings transmitted to him by Beatriz da Conceição, Celeste Rodrigues, Fernando Mauricio, Argentina Santos or António Rocha). Teachings that are part of this inheritance (immaterial, but precious) that carries forever. And only then came the albums and concerts, written poems and composed songs, in a process of constant and consistent maturation and evolution.

While preparing to release a new album for early 2020, Helder Moutinho's new show could only be called… “Written on Destiny” .Cort Maltese, according to its creator Hugo Pratt, was born without a lifeline. The sailor then took a knife and traced his own destiny in the palm of his hand…

The word fado, it is known, comes from the Latin term “fatum”, which means destiny. Destiny understood as luck, future, fatality, fortune, fate… But also as direction and direction, path and creation, will and utopia. A destiny that can be written in lines drawn on hands or stars, but can also be invented and reinvented at any time by each of us, agents of (our own) destiny. Fate is not written - it is rather a blank book where we choose to write - but it can be sung.

Helder Moutinho is a fado singer who has fado as his destiny, but who has also written so many times what fate he wants in his fado. In “Writing in Destiny”, the new show sings love and longing, past and future, life and travel - musical, poetic, metaphorical, temporal, geographical… The stories that have been made, (re ) done and (dis) done your destiny to sing to Fado…