Katia Guerreiro

Kátia d' Almeida d' Oliveira Rosado Guerreiro Ochoa ( aka Kátia Guerreiro, born February 23, 1976 in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa) is a Portuguese fado singer and doctor.

Career

My life is divided in two passions, music and medicine. She is now one of the most internationally well-known fado singers; her Fado is characterized by the richness of his lyrics, which are derived from contemporary Portuguese writers, especially by António Lobo Antunes.

Your resume proved geographically eventful. She was born in South Africa, grew up in the Azores, where she joined a Folkoregruppe, and then went to Lisbon to enroll for medicine. She began working in the district hospital of Évora, but later returned to the capital in order to specialize in ophthalmology. During this training, she discovered her artery for Fado, first in a private environment with colleagues, and later in a more serious form in concerts, at which they performed together with the Guitarristas Paulo Parreira and João Veiga.

Together with these and bassist Armando Figueiredo, and with the support of the fado singer João Braga, Katia Guerreiro played in 2001 the album Fado Maior one. The album, which was distributed by the label Ocarina, achieved great international attention and was even sold in Japan and South Korea. Among other pieces it contained Fado, which had been made ​​known by Amália Rodrigues, which Guerreiro significantly influenced and had died the year before, also settings of poems by Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and António Lobo Antunes.

2003 also appeared on the album Ocarina Nas Mãos do Fado ( In the hands of Fado ). The title represents a reference to Guerreiro's characteristic stage poses, in which she sings with closed on the back of hands. She wears again before texts by António Lobo Antunes and dedicated to the first time her second great role model, Dulce Pontes.

The presence of Dulce Pontes strengthened wrote on the following album from 2005, Tudo ou Nada, for the Pontes specifically a piece, Dulce Caravela. The album was released by Som Livre and there was the most successful of Kátia Guerreiro. It contained a version of Saudades do Brasil em Portugal by Antônio Carlos Jobim, and a version of Menina do Alto da Serra, with the Tonicha the Festival RTP da had won Canção 1971. Also on this plate, in the piece Minha Senhora das Dores, the jazz pianist Bernardo Sassetti was heard. Once again sang Guerreiro texts by António Lobo Antunes and paid homage to the poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.

In the same year she was named by Aníbal Cavaco Silva during its successful candidacy for the office of President of Portugal, as a youth representative.

In 2006, a CD box with their first record. From the album Tudo Ou Nada a new recording with bonus tracks was carried out with the participation of the Brazilian Ney Matogrosso.

Their album " Fado" also received good international reviews, and came in late 2008 to 20th place of the Portuguese charts.

Kátia Guerreiro has given concerts all over the world, including in Egypt, Azores ( Port. ), Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Goa (India ), Greece, Japan, New Caledonia, Macao, Morocco, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Turkey. She also sang duets, for example, with Maria Bethânia, and was more common on television.

Discography

  • 2010: 10 Anos - Nas Asas do Fado
  • 2008: Fado
  • 2005: Tudo ou nada
  • 2003: Nas Mãos do Fado
  • 2001: Fado Maior

Documentation

  • Katia Guerreiro - Entre les mains du Fado. Portrait, France / Portugal, 2006; German: Fado - the soul of Portugal: the singer Katia Guerreiro. ( Auspicious Art). Original Air Date: SF DRS, 2007.

Weblink

  • Official web presence
  • Kátia Guerreiro in Fadomuseum
  • Kátia Guerreiro at Allmusic
  • Kátia Guerreiro at Discogs
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