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Cristina Branco
World Renown
Portuguese Fado (Fate)
Recording Artist On Her Debut American Tour
Suffering, melancholy
and impotence in the face of fate are the tragic emotions
that people expect when listening to traditional fado
music. The long tradition of the fado has brought forth
several fixed formulas to express these feelings. Their
faithful repetition does, however, wear down this wealth
of expression and flatten emotions, eclipsing the singers'
lyrics.
Cristina Branco has chosen a different
path. She has not sought a naive break with tradition
but, in preserving the best of it (just listen to some
of the classics she sings), she uses her authentic interpretation
to breathe new life into the fado tradition. With her
beautiful voice and sensitive rendition, she aims to merge
the lyrics with the fado music, to make someone experiencing
them hear them as inseparable.
Cristina Branco (1972) grew up far
from the fado houses of Lisbon and nothing suggested that
she was predestined for the fado. Like almost all young
Portuguese born after the revolution of 1974, she was
interested in folk music, jazz, blues, bossa nova but
not in fado. She regarded it as a genre for a different
generation. This lasted until her 18th birthday, when
her grandfather gave her the album Rara e Iné
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