Biography Fábio Machado, born in 1985 in Quarteira, a small fishing village in the south of Portugal. The son of parents who returned from the war in Angola (Africa), he had a difficult childhood marked by hardship and significant struggles with verbal communication, particularly when it came to expressing feelings and his view of the world. At the age of 12, he was gifted a book by Vasily Kandinsky by a teacher, and gradually discovered in art a way to express his voice, emotions, and his perspective on the world. In 1998, he began a journey that would change his life forever. Fábio Machado