Carminho

Carminho ( born August 20, 1984 in Lisbon; actually Maria do Carmo de Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade ) is a Portuguese fado singer.

Career

She grew up in the Algarve. After she moved back to Lisbon with her ​​parents, she appeared at an event at the Coliseu dos Recreios at the age of 12 years. As a result, she sang regularly in fado clubs of the Alfama, including in Beatriz da Conceição. She finished her studies ( advertising and marketing), but then turned completely to the fado. Now was, as the daughter of the known in fado singer Teresa Siqueira circles, as the new hope of fado. In 2003, she had already taken as part of the Fado Fado Tradicional de - grouping Tertúlia 4 pieces for an album called Saudades do Fado.

This was followed by concerts in Argentina and Switzerland, and she sang in Malta to the EU accession of the country, 2004. Amália Rodrigues Foundation awarded her the 2005 award for best female newcomer.

To win both distance to the increasing public interest in their person as well as to new impressions, she went in 2006 for a charity for a year in countries such as Cambodia, Peru, India, and East Timor. Back in Lisbon, she resumed her career in 2007 Fado again.

They participated in Carlos Saura's film Fado in the same year. 2008 Carminho occurred in the Casa da Música in Porto and at the gala for 45.ten stage anniversary of Carlos do Carmo on, and sang at the World Exhibition Expo 2008 in Zaragoza.

In 2009 they released their debut album, with two self-penned tracks alongside traditional fado. The simply -titled CD Fado was 39 weeks long in the Portuguese charts and came to number 2 questions why she had waited so long for an album, she answered with the high expectations of them as the "new voice of Fado". You 've only long experience and reflection needed to live up to expectations.

2011 their album in the UK has been published and evaluated there by the trade magazine Songlines as one of the 10 best albums of the year. She gave concerts in Mozambique and on the rarely visited Azores island of Graciosa, in Amsterdam and Madrid, and on the Songlines Festival in London. In March of this year she sang as part of the exhibition on the history of Fado in the Paris UNESCO headquarters, upon grant of Fado as World Heritage Site.

In May 2011, she gave a concert in Lisbon Lux Frágil, in which inter alia was accompanied by three well-known musicians of the Portuguese guitar ( Ângelo Freire, Luis Guerreiro and Zé Manuel Neto ). In Fado accompaniment is usually only by a Portuguese guitar, among other instruments. This concept was filmed by director João Botelho and released as a DVD. Still in 2011, she performed at the biggest world music trade fair in Copenhagen, WOMEX. After the good reviews the international tour offerings continued to grow. In March 2012 they released their second album, Alma ( "Soul ").

Discography

• 2009: Fado
• 2012: Alma