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.

Noite Estrelada
António Zambujo Lyrics

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Como eu não sei rezar
Um dia pus-me a contar
Quantas estrelas há no céu
Comecei na tua rua
Naquela estrela que é tua
A estrela que deus te deu

Quanto mais estrelas contava

Mais o céu se iluminava
Mais luzinhas se acendiam
Nem o astro se cansava
Eram tantas que eu cegava
E era por ti que nasciam

Quando o coração da gente
Tem uma estrela cadente
Morre para nascer depois
Inventei uma oração
Que uma tivesse o condão
De nascer para nós os dois

Adormeci com a esperança
Até onde a vista alcança
Quando o céu é mais estrelado
Acordei à luz do sol

Afastei o meu lençol
E tu estavas a meu lado

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of António Zambujo's song "Noite Estrelada" convey a sense of longing and hope for love. The singer, who admits to not knowing how to pray, decides to count the stars in the sky. Starting on the street of his beloved, he selects her star - the one that God gave her - and begins to count. As he counts, more stars begin to appear, lighting up the sky. The singer becomes overwhelmed by their number and feels as though he is going blind from their brightness. However, he believes that these stars are all born for his beloved.

The lyrics take a turn when the singer states that when one's heart has a shooting star, it dies only to be reborn later. This idea prompts him to create a prayer that a star would be born for the two of them. The prayer encapsulates the singer's desire to be with his beloved and have a star that is born for both of them.

Towards the end of the song, the singer wakes up to find the sun shining, implying that the night has passed. As he looks around, he realizes that his beloved is lying next to him. The lyrics convey a sense of hope and a belief that love can conquer all obstacles, and that the beauty of the universe is connected to the love shared between the two people.

Line by Line Meaning

Como eu não sei rezar
As I am not able to pray

Um dia pus-me a contar
One day I started to count

Quantas estrelas há no céu
Just how many stars are there in the sky?

Comecei na tua rua
I started on your street

Naquela estrela que é tua
On that star that belongs to you

A estrela que deus te deu
The star that God has given to you

Quanto mais estrelas contava
As I counted more and more stars

Mais o céu se iluminava
The sky would become brighter

Mais luzinhas se acendiam
More little lights would light up

Nem o astro se cansava
Even the celestial body did not tire

Eram tantas que eu cegava
There were so many that I was blinded

E era por ti que nasciam
And they were born for you

Quando o coração da gente
When a person's heart

Tem uma estrela cadente
Has a shooting star

Morre para nascer depois
Dies, only to be reborn again

Inventei uma oração
I created a prayer

Que uma tivesse o condão
So that one star would have the power

De nascer para nós os dois
To be born for the both of us

Adormeci com a esperança
I fell asleep with hope

Até onde a vista alcança
As far as the eye could see

Quando o céu é mais estrelado
When the sky is filled with more stars

Acordei à luz do sol
I woke up to the sunlight

Afastei o meu lençol
I moved my covers away

E tu estavas a meu lado
And you were by my side

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Como eu não sei rezar
Um dia pus-me a contar
Quantas estrelas há no céu
Comecei na tua rua
Naquela estrela que é tua
A estrela que deus te deu
Quanto mais estrelas contava
Mais o céu se iluminava
Mais luzinhas se acendiam
Nem o astro se cansava
Eram tantas que eu cegava
E era por ti que nasciam
Quando o coração da gente
Tem uma estrela cadente
Morre para nascer depois
Inventei uma oração
Que uma tivesse o condão
De nascer para nós os dois
Adormeci com a esperança
Até onde a vista alcança
Quando o céu é mais estrelado
Acordei à luz do sol
Afastei o meu lençol
E tu estavas a meu lado