{"id":1717,"date":"2026-05-14T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afirma.pt\/esteves-sem-metafisica-no-nos-alive\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:05:34","slug":"esteves-sem-metafisica-no-nos-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afirma.pt\/en\/esteves-sem-metafisica-no-nos-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteves sem Metaf\u00edsica at NOS Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ESTEVES SEM METAF\u00cdSICA<\/strong> will be presenting her debut album\u00a0de.bu.te. at NOS Alive Festival on july 11th <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esteves sem Metaf\u00edsica was born Teresa in 1991. She grew up in Arruda dos Vinhos, where landscape and silence became the raw material for both her writing and her music. Holding a degree in Arts and Humanities from the Faculdade de Letras of the University of Lisbon, she began her creative path as a literary and music critic, contributing occasionally to the cultural magazine Brot\u00e9ria since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, she independently published the poetry book A Morte n\u00e3o tem P\u00e1tria<\/em> (Death Has No Homeland<\/em>), an exercise in lucidity and fearlessness that marked the emergence of a raw and distinctive voice within the contemporary Portuguese scene. At the end of 2024, she undertook an artistic residency in Cernache, where she composed two of the songs featured on her debut album, de.bu.te.<\/em> \u2014 a work that intertwines word, sound, and texture in a gesture of liberation from excess, reconciliation with the ordinary, and recognition of fragility as an unexpected source of strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by \u00c1lvaro de Campos\u2019 character in Tabacaria<\/em>, Esteves sem Metaf\u00edsica embraces unrest as method and doubt as a point of departure. Her longstanding connection to The Beatles, fascination with Irish culture, literature as a companion to silence, and Fado as a secret lover \u2014 an old unrequited love \u2014 all testify to an artistic universe where melancholy, humour, intensity, lightness, and a relentless curiosity about human imperfection coexist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 11th, Esteves sem Metaf\u00edsica will take the Coreto Stage at NOS Alive to present de.bu.te.<\/em>, whose single \u201creden\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d has spent four consecutive weeks in the Top 3 of Antena 3\u2019s A3.30 chart, a ranking determined by public vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom this concert, one may expect: an epic without fantastical heroes, turbulences and apotheoses fighting for the podium, a philharmonic band speaking to the bandstand as an equal, and the energy of someone trembling while knowing they are exactly where they belong.\u201d \u2014 Esteves sem Metaf\u00edsica<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is already white smoke rising from the simmering process of the next album. There is already as much \u2014 or as little \u2014 metaphysics as in the first one. It lies somewhere between the logical next step and a 157-degree turn. On the board, a new game is taking shape: one that preserves its anchors while recalculating the North. The cry remains rough, but now it knows it wants to leave the throat and settle somewhere beyond the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by Francisco Hartley<\/em>
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