Born in Ribeira Quente, São Miguel, Azores, Liberto Medeiros began playing music in the mid-seventies in the local rock and roll clubs of Montréal, performing original material on the stages of Foufounes Electriques, Concordia University, and elsewhere.
In the late seventies, Liberto, then known as Joe Liberty, embarked on his music career with the punk rock band Landed Immigrant, whose record called “It Was You” hit the music charts of Radio McGill, predecessor of CKUT-FM. In 1980, he collaborated with filmmaker Donald Rennick for the score of the National Film Board documentary Boys Will Be Men, in which he also made an appearance.
Liberto moved to Toronto in the early eighties where he performed with the New Wave band Cheeze Wiz and the Wafers for a number of years, after which he returned to Montréal. Back in town, he carried on with Landed Immigrant, inaugurated another project, the New-Wave/Punk band, Joe Liberty and the Incurable Dream, and kept a foot in the local scene.
A decade later, Liberto begins to study the Portuguese twelve-string guitar with maestro Arturo Gaipo, and starts to play his guitarra portuguesa in the city's fado scene, on the stages of the Festival International des Rythmes du Monde and the Festival Portugal International de Montréal.
Looking to sharpen his compositional skills, he enrolled in the McGill conservatory, the schulich school of music, and completed the program in 2017. His efforts at the conservatory resulted in his first record, O Estudante, a collection of classical, followed by A Melodia Tras o Vento. His third record is called Farto da Guerra.
As he returns more and more to his homeland, Liberto … interprets the natural landscape and sounds of the Azores into musical patterns and melodies.
"Simonized"
"Scatterbrain"