Art Sullivan and Hugo's interview published in TV7 Dias ( Portuguese magazine TV)

Art Sullivan and Hugo Sahki are in Portugal to promote their partnership.

At 59 years old, the french singer -which made successin the 70's, with the hit "Petite demoiselle"-IT IS THE RETURN TO THE MUSIC, THIS TIME TO SPONSOR THE YOUNG PORTUGUESE: Hugo Sahki, 19 years old. TV7Dias speaks to them two.

The dream of Hugo Sahki
He is 19 years old, he is the son of an Algerian and a Portuguese, having lived in France, it is four years ago he move to Povoa de Varzim, where his parents manage a tearoom. It is in the city of the North that the young begin to get to like more seriously, using Internet."It has only one year which I began to put my videos on a site. A dream which I always hid even to my parents..."Since he knows Art Sullivan, by a jump pf the fate, today concretizes his dreams: "The disk, Secret Emotions, already went out for two months, and frontires. Essentially, romantic music...I have only a message which is to share the same dream. We believe it! To type in the door of producers is not the solution."

How was Hugo discovered?
A fan discovered that he sang the song 'Petite demoiselle" in a video on Youtube. I saw it, I found nothing special, but, meanwhile seen that it had links for the other songs, I clicked and there I discovered something special in the interpretation, in the gestures of this boy, and it touched me and makes that I wanted to contact him.

Do you see yourself again in the music which he makes?
I was more beautiful than Hugo when I had his age (laughters). Seriously, I see again myself in him in the measure that he sang only in his room, in front of a webcam ans I sang only in the cellar of my house. In my time, there was no Internet, but I managed to find in Hugo this sensibility. I give him a melody and he, in three minutes, he assimilates it and it has many resemblances between us in musical terms, in this sense I see again myself in him.

When you began, were you sponsored, such as maintaining you make it for this young?
Yes. It was more or less the same thing, because Hervé Villard helped me, by composing him the music "Capri, c'est fini".

What assessment do you make of these 30 years of carreer?
The assessment is very good because for a singer to have a music which makes success one or two years, it is already something and I, I am lucky that people always remember my music 30 years later.

What moment reminds you with most emotion these 3 decades bound to the music?
My first disk. However, more than it, it is the first time that I had my disk in hands. Over the moment, I passed by the young which sang in its cellar to the musicain who records a disk. Have it in my hands, to see me in magazines, it was...

But it has had a lot of time remote from albums. Who made you stop and brought you to begin again?
I stopped because in the time, I had stopped feeling this passion which I had for the music. I found that without passion, it was better to stop and it is what I made. However, then, when the producers contacted me to edit my musics in CD, I said yes, thinking that everybody had already forgotten me. And I was very surprised to see that not. Even in Portugal, when the album went out, it was double of platinum in 2000/2002!

Was this success expected?
Not at all! In France and in Belgium the same thing arrived. It was a surprise! I had the notion that people remembered my music, but what arrived, was an enormous surprise. People ran to buy my album and it was an excellent present which brought me to want to return to the world of music. When I took back the shows, I saw that people remembered themselves of a part of their life through my music.

Now has it albums planned?
Never say never! For at once, no. What I want to make now, it is shows and to sing my successes, but another way...The 'Petite demoiselle' in waltz, in tango, in rap... Why not?!

What do you feel when generations and generations remember themselves of your music?
I feel very young, it is clear (laughters)! In 30 years, I thought that every day was the end and that I would be forgotten. For me what arrived is a miracle, incredible!

Do you know some Portuguese singers?
I know a lot, I am going to say to you Amalia Rodrigues because everybody knows her! I like Marco Polo, Tony Carreira, Mariza, and many others...And I think that it has a certain resemblance between the Portuguese and the French popular music.

What message would you like to leave to your Portugueses fans?
That they are in my heart, Portugal is in my heart. It has 35 years ago, upon my arrival at the airport, it was three or four thousands persons whose waited for me! It is a memory which will remain engraved in my heart an d I have to thank them all. Thank you!