Article published in "Fundamental" on April 18th, 2009.

Art Sullivan in "Fundamental Café"

The Belgian singer of middle-of-the-road popular songs of the 70's had lunch in "Fundamental Café" on March 25th, 2009. Art Sullivan is the protagonist of a fantastic story, American dreams style, it sponsored the young Hugo Sahki.
The story of Hugo Sahki's novice career would deserve to appear in a film which would redraw an episode of American Dream, here adapted in a sort of "European Dream" based in Portugal. The young person Hugo Sahki lives with his parents to Povoa de Varzim, after 16 years of life in France. The only contact which Hugo had with the music amounted to the CD which he listened to in his bedroom at his parents or in the discotheque among which these are owners. So although it doesn't seem like it, he sang secretly to the webcam, his parents were not there when he sang, what would have made him be ashamed with shyness. The fact of taking advantage of the guarantee of its private life ally in a méga exposure which internet can offer, Hugo Sahki thus downloaded his videos on YouTube.
It did not put itself for a long time so that his version of " Petite demoiselle " arrives on the computer of... Art Sullivan. Who so liked what he heard, he contacts Hugo by e-mail, which will have put several days to believe in the luck which had chosen him. The Belgian singer liked this shape of voice and Hugo Sahki's interpretation that he offered him tickets to go to record a disk in Belgium, which is produced in the studio ICP in Brussels, one of the biggest of the kind in Europe. As if the kindness of Art Sullivan was not more than evident, the artist is always inclined to come to Portugal and to accompany Hugo Sahki in "digression" for regional radios in all the country, making value of credits which will extend in the years to come to open doors on his discovery.
Everything in depends on Art Sullivan, amazed, without the other interest evident than to see Hugo on this place where Art Sullivan includes that the voice of the young singer the merit. Art and Hugo has a relation looking like that between a father and his son sometimes it happens that they seem to be 2 brothers and the American dream was transformed, for Hugo Sahki - in a very real opportunity.

Exceptional character. Art Sullivan is an exceptional man of character and Hugo Sahki's story does not leave doubts on the unlimitedness of the spirit of the Belgian singer, the famous depiction in Portugal with songs as " Petite demoiselle ", " Donnes,donnes-moi " or " Vivre d'amour, besoin d'amour ".
His passage in Fundamental Café made understand that in spite of years crossed Art is always in the collective memory, it will pass unnoticed practically by none of the customers of the restaurant of Fundamental Café.
Hugo Sahki is happy and radiant, he makes the promotion of his album " Secret Emotions " with a weighty godfather who opens him the door of the success it Hugo deserves him for his talent and Art Sullivan even more for the nobility of his initiative.