Dear Shaded Viewers,
Over he weekend I went to see Maria de Medeiros perform A Little More Blue with her musicians, Pascal Salmon on the piano, Emek Evci, contrebasse, Edmundo Carneiro, percussions. Her album A little more blue will be out the beginning of February. Maria is a director, an actress and a singer. She played with Isabella Rosselini in a beautiful film, The Saddest Music in the World by Guy Maddin. Imagine Isabella Rossellini as Lady Helen Port-Huntley the head of a beer empire. All I’ll tell you is glass legs filled with beer.
Maria and Sophie Caille
Carlos Torres showed his paintings and I asked him to stand in front of one of them. Years ago I was working on a tv pilot called Exotic Breed and interviewed him. The idea was to interview people that had left their countries and to see if there were similar characteristics between them. I don’t know the statistics but I think it is something like 90% of the people never live more than I forget how many miles from where they were born. I never managed to sell it. I still think that it is a good idea, Maria was one of my subjects too.
The concert was pure delight full of warmth and simplicity. A beautiful woman with a beautiful voice. Sitting a few seats away from me was a young man that kept smiling at me. When the concert was over he asked me if I was who he thought I was. I told him my name was Diane. He had been sure that I was Martiria, an iconic Spanish singer from the 80’s. I’ve heard it so much over the past few years that I knew immediately who he was speaking about. One day I will meet her and do a video interview with her and at a certain point I would ask some one to turn the camera on the two of us to answer the quetion, do we really look alike?
Later,
Diane
Photos by Carlos Torres
