Portugal's DJ-priest uses big beats to spread 'hope and faith'
Armed with big beats and a clerical collar, Father Guilherme has become an unlikely rising star in Portugese electronic music, a medium he uses to transmit "a message of hope and faith" to young people, many of whom are not at all religious. N°364U4K2
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00:00They are at festivals, they are at clubs,
00:29many of whom are completely out of the Church,
00:32so how to reach them with a message of hope,
00:36a message of faith, a message of tolerance,
00:41a message of harmony and peace in their lives.
00:44And electronic music ends up being this personal touch
00:49that allows you to get where it was not easy to get.
00:59I'm not afraid to speak to anyone,
01:03I'm the master of life, yes, of eternal life.
01:20I really like electronic music,
01:22it's the kind of music I like to listen to
01:25and it's fantastic to see the parallelism of the Church,
01:29of being a priest who makes sound and is good at what he does.
01:32It's this, it's bringing together two supposedly different and opposite worlds
01:36and he speaks very well, with a lot of quality, that's it.