Mafalda Arnauth
Mafalda Arnauth ( born October 4, 1974 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese fado singer.
Career
Until 2005
She studied veterinary medicine in Lisbon, singing Fado in their spare time. Gradually, their performances accumulated in fado clubs and on other occasions. Your actual singing career began in 1995 when the Fado singer João Braga invited her to one of his concerts at the Teatro São Luiz in Lisbon.
Her debut album in 1999, she took on the EMI / Valentim de Carvalho produced by João Gil. So you won both the audience ( good sales ) and the criticism ( prize for " Best New Voice" in 1999 by the music magazine BLITZ, nomination for the Globo de Ouro Award as " best performer " in 2000 the television channel SIC). Fado was just beginning to win by a large number of new artists and new varieties of attractiveness, and Mafalda Arnauth was one of the new names that wore these incipient development.
The follow-up album in 2001 was produced by Amélia Muge, among others, and published simultaneously in Portugal and the Netherlands. After the album was the first Portuguese musician, which is represented by Virgin Records internationally. In 2003 she wrote a fado for the film Os Imortais by director António Pedro Vasconcelos, and also appeared in a scene shortly so on.
After their third album, 2003, her performances accumulated in Portugal and other European countries, also in Turkey and in Macau they occurred. Her concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall and the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam ) before 2400 people left in their most impression at this stage, in his own words.
In 2005, she left the EMI / Valentim de Carvalho, in yet a Best Of compilation appeared.
From 2005
In her next album ( " Diário ", " diary " ) brought claims to be a their previous experience, but also influences Amália, Bethânia, Aznavour, Piazzolla and others. She turned to here more from the dark, mystical image of Fado from.
In 2006 she toured the Benelux countries, there appears to present the " Diário ". However, they also appeared on the Ibero-American summit in Uruguay and Costa Rica, in Angola and a full Centro Cultural de Belém. 2007 appeared " Diário " in France and Spain, again accompanied by extensive concert tours, including through the Cité de la musique in Paris.
Under the name " Flor do Fado" ( " Fadoblume " ), she developed a concert program that offers up to Mexico and into the home Teatro da Trindade brought for the first time. In 2008, she took on a matching album to do so.
Now you participated in other, very differently oriented projects part. So she put the theme tune for a telenovela ( the remake of the first Portuguese telenovela " Vila Faia " ), accepted the invitation of Kepa Junkera to a project traditional Basque songs, and came into the bar in São Paulo Barretto on. She sang along with Pablo Milanes Para Vivir be on a Spanish charity concert, and has worked both live and in the studio with the Galician folk band Milladoiro together.
In 2009 she published " Flor do fado " in Italy and in France, where she imagined it at Les Trois Baudets. In the same year she realized together with the singers Susana Félix, Viviane and Luanda Cozetti the tribute project for the late poet and fado lyricists Ary dos Santos, " Rua da Saudade ", where songs here in a contemporary, pop - angelehntem sound reinterpreted were.
In 2010 she gave a concert of classics and standards in the castle walls of the Castelo de São Jorge above the traditional district of Lisbon. On their subsequent concerts she sang, among others, on the HFA Festival in Zimbabwe and the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon. She made it with her selection of songs also the new album. " Fada " ( " fairies " ) appeared in 2010 with Polygram / Universal and dealt with the work of important women in Fado, in addition to a version of a Piazzolla - piece with text by Eladia Blásquez.