António Zambujo was born in Beja, Alentejo (South of Portugal) in 1975. He … Read Full Bio ↴António Zambujo was born in Beja, Alentejo (South of Portugal) in 1975. He grew up listening to the traditional male chant called ‘Cante Alentejano’ that became one of his strongest influences. Around the age of 8, Zambujo started studying clarinet but soon he fell in love with Fado when listening to Amália Rodrigues, Alfredo Marceneiro, Maria Teresa de Noronha and João Ferreira Rosa. And it was singing, when he was 16 years old, that he won a regional Fado contest. His professional carreer started when Mário Pacheco, the renowned Portuguese guitarist and composer, invited him to sing in his Clube de Fado, in Lisbon. Not for a long time though… After an audition, António was chosen to take the role of Francisco da Cruz, Amalia’s first husband, in the blockbuster Musical ‘Amália’. He performed continuously during 4 years in Lisbon and after that he toured all around Portugal achieving enormous success. ‘It was a unique experience that taught me the stage «feeling» plus the strict working discipline of a theatre company’. In 2002 his first record ‘O mesmo Fado’ was released. Though you can find in it, as in all Zambujo’s records, some influences of ..Cante Alentejano’, the record achieved great recognition in the “Fado world’. Several songs were chosen to be part of major Fado anthologies and António Zambujo won the prestigious ‘Radio Nova FM’ prize for the ‘Best new Fado voice’ that was previously addressed to Mariza, Camané and Mafalda Arnauth. The 2004’s ‘Por meu cante’ gave us some clues about Zambujo’s future artistic path. His homeland influences were clearer, the merge between ‘Cante Alentejano’ and Fado was always present and, though it happened to be somehow controversial, no impeachment was called. António Zambujo won the Amália Rodrigues Foundation’s prize for the Best Fado Male Singer. 2007 is a significant year in Zambujo’s career. His third record ‘Outro sentido’ is a statement from a mature artist that has found his own particular way. Also the remarkable Lisbon’s festival closing concert and the duet with Luís Represas, a top pop singer, have shown that Zambujo and his music are really difficult to label.

A casa fechada
António Zambujo Lyrics

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Aquela casa fechada
Não tem vasos na entrada
Nem se vê luz d'uma vela
Aquela casa fechada
Não tem vasos na entrada
Nem se vê luz d'uma vela

Dizem que a casa está morta

Já ninguém lhe bate à porta
Nem se assoma na janela

Dizem que a casa está morta
Já ninguém lhe bate à porta
Nem se assoma na janela

Às vezes passam rapazes
Pra mostrar que são capazes
Jogam pedras ao telhado
Esse lar que ninguém quer
Já foi de homem e mulher
Antes de ser condenado

Esse lar que ninguém quer
Já foi de homem e mulher
Antes de ser condenado

Aquela casa fechada
Onde o sol tinha a morada
E entrava sem bater
Já foi estimada por ti
Noutros tempos que eu vivi
E não consigo esquecer

Já foi estimada por ti
Noutros tempos que eu vivi
E não consigo esquecer

No dia em que tu partiste
A casa ficou tão triste
Desde aí que não a vejo

No dia em que tu partiste
A casa ficou tão triste
Desde aí que não a vejo

Fechei a porta da escada
Fiz uma cruz na entrada
E mandei a chave ao Tejo

Fechei a porta da escada

Fiz uma cruz na entrada
E mandei a chave ao Tejo

Overall Meaning

The song "A casa fechada" by António Zambujo is about a closed house that appears abandoned and forgotten. The lyrics describe a house with no vases at the entrance and no signs of life such as a light from a candle or someone at the window. People say that the house is dead since no one visits or knocks on the door, and it has been condemned. The song mentions how some boys occasionally throw stones at the roof to prove themselves capable, disregarding the fact that the house was once a home to a man and a woman.

The second half of the song refers to someone who used to cherish the house in the past, but since they left, the house has become lonely and desolate. The singer says how the house was once filled with sunshine and fond memories, but now it is a place of sorrow and loneliness. The singer reminisces about the past and how they cannot forget how the house once was. The song ends on a note of finality, as the singer closed the entrance of the house, made a cross, and threw away the key, emphasizing that the house is no longer accessible.

The song's melancholic tone, combined with the simple guitar and piano melody, adds to the song's overall emotional impact. The lyrics evoke a sense of nostalgia and longing for a home that once held cherished memories, but is now forgotten and condemned.

Line by Line Meaning

Aquela casa fechada
The closed house

Não tem vasos na entrada
Has no pots on the entrance

Nem se vê luz d'uma vela
Neither can a candle be seen

Dizem que a casa está morta
They say the house is dead

Já ninguém lhe bate à porta
No one knocks its door anymore

Nem se assoma na janela
Nor peeps through the window

Às vezes passam rapazes
Sometimes boys pass by

Pra mostrar que são capazes
To show they're capable

Jogam pedras ao telhado
They throw rocks at the roof

Esse lar que ninguém quer
The home no one wants

Já foi de homem e mulher
It used to belong to a man and a woman

Antes de ser condenado
Before it was condemned

Onde o sol tinha a morada
Where the sun had its dwelling

E entrava sem bater
And came in without knocking

Já foi estimada por ti
You once valued it

Noutros tempos que eu vivi
In other times I lived through

E não consigo esquecer
And I can't forget

No dia em que tu partiste
The day you left

A casa ficou tão triste
The house became so sad

Desde aí que não a vejo
Since then, I haven't seen it

Fechei a porta da escada
I closed the stair door

Fiz uma cruz na entrada
I made a cross on the entrance

E mandei a chave ao Tejo
And threw the key to the Tejo river

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Comments from YouTube:

Eugénia da Luz

4y↑1

Não me canso de ouvir esta música. Linda!

Amalia Navarro

Está canção me dá umas Saudades Eternas 😢❤️

villelami

7y↑3

Este tema é lindo demais hoje tive saudades de o ouvir.

rosângela maluf

8y↑2

adoro o zambujo como a máxima expressão masculina do fado contemporâneo - letras, músicas, arranjos, repertório ( muita música brasileira) e uma simpatia sem par - o conhecei no show da ana moura, em são paulo!