Ana Moura
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PRINCE SPOTTED AT LE CIGALE CONCERT IN PARIS
Pop star Prince made an appearance at fado singer Ana Moura's concert at Le Cigale in Paris! He reportedly applauded enthusiastically and declared that he'd like her to record with him on his album "Stones World". He is quoted in Le Parisien as saying "I just came here to touch the train of her dress." Click image to see article in Expresso (in Portuguese):
PARA ALEM DA SAUDADE IS TOM SCHNABEL'S #2 BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Tom Schnabel of KCRW's Cafe L.A. names Para Alem da Saudade #2 on his Top Ten Albums of 2008.
ANA MOURA TRACK PLAYED ON NPR'S MORNING EDITION
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ANA MOURA ON CYLOOP!
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PORTUGUESE FADO SINGER ANA MOURA TOURS US IN SUPPORT OF PARA ALEM DA SAUDADE
BIO
Ana was born in Santarem, the bustling capital of the Ribatejo province in the center of Portugal's heartland on the Tejo River northeast of Lisbon. The city of half a million souls is also one of Portugal's most historic cities -- an ideal place to develop an appreciation for fado. "I've been singing fado since I was little, because grew up listening to it at home," she recalls of her early home life. "My parents sang well, and at family gatherings we all would sing."
Like young people everywhere, she soon developed an appreciation for other styles of music. The lure of singing fado, however, never waned. In her late teens, while sing pop and rock music with a local band, Ana always included at least one fado in each performance. Then, one night on a whim, about five years ago, she and some friends went to one of Lisbon's storied fado houses -- small performance venues where singers, guitarists and aficionados gather to worship the affecting style that's become Portugal's most important music export.
At the urging of her companions, she sang. "People liked me," she recalls of her first foray into a venerated bastion of the fado culture. Later that year, at a Christmas party that was attended by a lot of fadistas (fado singers) and guitarists, she sang again and, as fate would have it, noted fado vocalist Maria de Fe was in the audience and was duly impressed. "She asked me to sing at her fado house," Ana recalls of the fortuitous moment that launched her career.
"My life changed when I began going to the fado houses," Ana states today. "There's no microphone -- it's very intimate. New singers learn through a kind of apprenticeship, learning the intricacies of the style from the older, more established singers."
Before long, word of Ana's rich contralto, stunning looks and innate affinity for the demanding style spread, winning airtime on local television programs devoted to fado and rave reviews in Lisbon newspapers. Music critic Miguel Esteves Cardoso captured her essence when he wrote of her "rare and primitive quality" and her "natural truth, without effort or premeditation."
Ana has emerged as a leading voice of traditional fado just as the venerable idiom is enjoying a renaissance of popularity. The singer's association with composer, producer, arranger and guitarist Jorge Fernando, the former guitar player of Amalia Rodrigues (the undisputed queen of fado, who died at the age of 79 in 1999) has helped stimulate her artistic development and has provided her with an alluring repertoire. "Today," she explains, "there's a new generation that sings lyrics related to our time. There are some older fado songs that we, the younger singers, cannot perform, because the lyrics are about a time and themes we don't identify with. We don't feel it, and fado is all about feelings. We must feel what we sing, and there are many older fados that don't belong to our generation. Younger singers use lyrics that speak of today, so young people have begun to get more interested in the music again."
As with jazz and country music in the U.S., tango in Argentina, samba in Brazil, fado sprang from the culture of working class people. And, as with the aforementioned examples, over the years the style evolved from humble origins to win broad appeal. Today, as Ana proudly proclaims, "In Portugal, fado is for everyone."
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PRINCE spotted at Ana Moura's Le Cigale concert! May 15
Pop star Prince made an appearance at fado singer Ana Moura's concert at Le Cigale in Paris! Click image to see article (in Portuguese):
#2 in KCRW Tom Schnabel's Top 10 CDs of 2008! Nov 26, 2008
Ana Moura's Para Alem da Saudade is #2 on KCRW's Tom Schnabel's Top 10 Albums of 2008!
Three Shows @ Jazz Standard with Rolling Stones Project II Oct 27, 2008
Ana Moura performs three special concerts this week with The Rolling Stones Project II at Jazz Standard in New York. The dates are 10/28-10/30, with two performances each night, one at 7:30pm and one at 9:30pm. Tickets and further info available here:
Ana Moura on All About Jazz w/ The Stones Project II Oct 22, 2008
Award-Winning Jazz Saxophonist Tim Ries Releases "Stones World: The Rolling Stones Project II"
Saxophonist/composer Tim Ries an extraordinary jazz musician and member of the Rolling Stones touring band since 1999 translates the Stones immortal songbook into …
VIDEOS
NEW! ANA MOURA INTERVIEW ON RADIO E TELEVISAO DE PORTUGAL
ROLLING STONES DISCUSS PERFORMING WITH ANA MOURA
ANA MOURA: OS BUZIOS
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loved your track on NPR the other day.
posted Jul 06, 2008
uau ana ! nem consigo imaginar o que sentiste naquele palco. porra! os rolling stones!! parabéns e continua a boa divulgação do que é nosso e é bom. bjinhos da serra da estrela. e um queijo também, ahah. ;)
posted Jun 11, 2008
Olá Ana! Obrigada por procurar nosso espaco! Um abraco grande e muito sucesso por EUA!!! Keep it up! Beijinhos, Marce O A : - )))) PSFB
posted Mar 27, 2008
Thanks for the add! Welcoming you to Modesto. Blessings, lydgmz
posted Mar 25, 2008
thanks 4 that add! have fun un savannah - the weather will be awesome!
posted Mar 12, 2008
thanks for the add :D...nice to have someone from South America, I feel closer to my home
posted Feb 06, 2008
"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov) Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany! Feel free to download my music!
posted Dec 18, 2007
ana moura... bem, se é a pagina oficial, que prazer receber este convite de amizade!! parece que esta coisa do Virb começa a ficar habitavel!
posted Dec 07, 2007
boa tarde!!!! Love the music!!!!!!
posted Dec 04, 2007
griffoso says:
Hello Ana, I am honored to be added to your friends list and have grown to enjoy your music. The style of your music is refreshingly beautiful and I just can't seem to get enough of it, even though I can't understand the words it is great. I will be listening to you soon.
posted Nov 15, 2008