Portugal has two healthy cultural obsessions: soccer and the music called fado, the latter of which has attracted fans and practitioners from Lisbon to Brisbane and beyond. Its latest star, fadista ...

Where Fado is concerned, I’m very much a traditionalist. I first heard Fado in 1963 in Lorenço Marques (now Maputo), capital of the then-Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Inquiring of a Portuguese ...

Ana Moura recorded Mitchell’s “A Case of You” on Desfado, the first album Klein produced for her, back in 2012. She’s also worked with the Rolling Stones, singing “No Expectations” and “Brown Sugar” ...

Internationally recognised Portuguese singer Ana Moura is considered to be one of the most popular contemporary fado singers since the day she caught the ear of renowned fado singer Maria da Fé. Fado, ...

Ana Moura says she didn't decide to become a fadista, a singer of the fervent, longing-filled Portuguese music called fado, or fate. "Fado chose me," says the lush-voiced Portuguese singer, who brings ...

The fado star is reinventing the ‘Portuguese blues’ again, this time mixing its emotional intensity with kizomba, samba and trap Ana Moura is not a breaking artist by any stretch, but she continues to ...

and by phone at 216-421-7350 and 1-888-CMA-0033 (888-262-0033). Happy, happy stuff. "I started because I grew up listening to my parents singing," said Moura, who was born in Santarem and was calling ...

For a Fadista, Ana Moura can sound surprisingly sunny: after the slow opening burn of “Moura Encantada”, “Fado Dançado” has a peppy bounce, and “Dia De Folga” a trotting stop-start county beat and ...

Ana Moura knows how to suffer. It is an underrated, deceptively difficult element of vocal artistry: to tap into that deep well of melancholy and anguish each of us possesses to varying degrees, and ...

Ana Moura is one of Portugal's finest fado singers, celebrated for her passionate style and her exploration of both traditional and so-called musical fado, in which a wider set of songs are treated to ...