Portugal has two healthy cultural obsessions: soccer and the music called fado, the latter of which has attracted fans and practitioners from Lisbon to Brisbane and beyond. Its latest star, fadista ...

Moura’s tremendous fado has gone upbeat, electric and pop, but she reverts to acoustic for her most poignant, intimate numbers Ana Moura started out singing fado, the Portuguese answer to the blues, ...

Ana Moura says she didn't decide to become a fadista, a singer of the fervent, longing-filled Portuguese music called fado, or fate. "Fado chose me," says the lush-voiced Portuguese singer, who brings ...

Internationally recognised Portuguese singer Ana Moura is considered to be one of the most popular contemporary fado singers since the day she caught the ear of renowned fado singer Maria da Fé. Fado, ...

Ana Moura has already won over discriminating fans such as Prince and the Rolling Stones. With her fifth studio album, "Desfado," the 31-year-old Portuguese singer who is leading the popular ...

Ana Moura sits in a restaurant in downtown Lisbon explaining how she was always destined to be a fado singer, she just hadn't always realised it. "We have this saying in Portugal: you have to be born ...

Of the wave of new-breed fadistas to emerge from Portugal in recent years, Ana Moura may be the one who puts the greatest emphasis on fado itself. While Mariza has allowed her dramatic persona to ...

Ana Moura recorded Mitchell’s “A Case of You” on Desfado, the first album Klein produced for her, back in 2012. She’s also worked with the Rolling Stones, singing “No Expectations” and “Brown Sugar” ...

For a Fadista, Ana Moura can sound surprisingly sunny: after the slow opening burn of “Moura Encantada”, “Fado Dançado” has a peppy bounce, and “Dia De Folga” a trotting stop-start county beat and ...