"Uma Casa Portuguesa" ("A Portuguese House")
In 1953, poet Reinaldo Ferreira, Filho ("Son" or Junior), was hired to write lyrics with Vasco Matos Sequeira for an Artur Fonseca composition for Angolan (white passing, mixed race) singer Sara Chaves during her passage by the other Portuguese African colony of Mozambique. Ferreira, the Barcelona-born son of Reinaldo Ferreira (a reporter, writer and filmmaker who was a sort of 'Portuguese Conan Doyle', who turned an alterego of his, the " Repórter X " into the 'Portuguese Sherlock Holmes') and a presencista ( Portuguese modernism from the Presença , "Presence", magazine ) poet with decadentist and symbolist influences, was living in the then Portuguese colony and leaned to criticism of the contemporary Portuguese dictatorship, so he wrote this song as a playful parody of nostalgic idealisation of Portugal held by Portuguese settler in the colony, and of a certain ideal of «joy in poverty» dominant in the public discourse of the Portuga...