Exquisite vocalist Ana Moura possesses a sound unlike any other in fado. Her voice strolls freely through the Portuguese tradition, flirting elegantly with pop and broadening the soul-bearing genre to stunning results. The BBC raves, “her melancholic intimacy dominates the moment it sashays out of the speakers… setting a mood of mesmerizing sorrow.” The Examiner describes her as, “a torch singer with Mediterranean qualities, Moura has a voice made for melodrama… aesthetically thrilling and emotionally heartbreaking.” Her stage presence embodies the spirit of the iconic fadista, capturing the attention of Caetano Veloso, Mick Jagger, and Prince, which gave rise to inspired crossover collaborations and performances with these musical giants in rock, pop, and jazz. Moura released her seventh full-length album, Desfado, in 2013 to quadruple platinum sales and her 2016 release, Moura, went platinum in her native Portugal.
From RTL Today
Portuguese fado musician, Ana Moura
“With the depth of history and tone of the Portuguese genre of ‘fado,’ the form is certainly represented by fado singer, Ana Moura.
Influenced at a young age through her family’s singing, Ana’s fondness for fado brought her into a career full of experience, allowing her top billboard charts, win multiple awards...
From Minneapolis StarTribune
In Minneapolis, Portuguese star Ana Moura offers world premiere of song she wrote with Prince
By: Jon Bream
As a fado singer, Portugal’s Ana Moura has an innate sense of drama. So when she returned to the sold-out Dakota Jazz Club on Monday for the first time in five years, she waited until the middle of her...
From Billboard
Portuguese Artists to Honor and Aid Forest Fire Victims With Solidarity Concert
By: Judy Cantor-Navas
Lisbon concert to raise funds for areas affected by tragic blaze in Central Portugal
Ana Moura, Rui Veloso, David Fonseca, Camané, Amor Electro and Carlos de Carmo are among the 25 artists representing multiple genres set to perform at a concert in Lisbon...
From The Guardian
By: Robin Denselow
Ana Moura review ‘” Portuguese blues get chance to dance
Cadogan Hall, London
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, in Lisbon. Mixing traditional forms with so-called ‘musical fado’,...
The Daily Mail
By JJ Natrass
The Rolling Stone’s Mick Jagger looks cheery after watching his stunning protege Ana Moura perform at her London concert
He’s as famous for his romantic conquests as he is his musical abilities.
But Sir Mick Jagger was content to enjoy an evening in the wings in London, on Tuesday, as the Rolling Stones frontman...
From NPR
By Anastasia Tsioulcas
Latitudes: Our Favorite Global Music Right Now
Oh, February. It’s the month that feels like it will never end, leap year or not. The air is cold and damp, the sky is gray, the sidewalks are slushy and I just want to be transported far, far away.
So for this month’s edition of Latitudes, I...
From sons em transito
‘Desfado’ Reaches Five Platinum and Becomes the Best Seller Portugese Album of the Decade
The news that Desfado reached, this week, the award of Quintuple Platinum is an auspicious starting point for the new album of Ana Moura. An important milestone for a record and an artist that continue to make history: it is the best-selling...
From Global Post
Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva commended five fado stars on Tuesday at the Fado Museum here with the “Henry the Navigator” award.
The five Fado stars are singers Ana Moura, Carminho, Katia Guerreiro and Ricardo Ribeiro, as well as composer and guitarist Mario Pacheco. The 35-year-old Moura is known as Fado Princess among fans.
“The richness of...
From Sons em Transito
“Desfado”, the latest Ana Moura’s release, was honored with the Amalia Rodrigues Award for “Best Album”. This prize was given to the double CD version of the album, entitled “Desfado / Caixa Alfama “, which hit stores in December 2013, one year after the release of the standard version. Joining Desfado’s most popular songs, like the...
From Todays Zaman
Fado singer Ana Moura says she loves to experience the difference
By: Cenk Erdem
Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura is going to present her fifth album, ‘Desfado,’ to a Turkish audience on Wednesday at İstanbul’s Cemal ReÅŸit Rey (CRR) Concert Hall as part of her most recent Europe concert tour to promote ‘Desfado.’
Considered to be one...
From Publico
Ana Moura tem o melhor disco World Music de 2013 para o Sunday Times
Desfado foi eleito o melhor disco do ano na categoria World Music (Música do Mundo).
Foram vários os momentos este ano em que Ana Moura brilhou no Reino Unido. Concertos esgotados e uma passagem pelo Later… with Jools Holland , na BBC, são exemplos...
From Songlines
Ana Moura: Desfado
By the time Ana Moura released her fourth album in 2009, Leva-me aos Fados, she had gone as far as she could down a particular road. If nothing else changed in her music, she would have been cursed to repeat the same record over and over again. Not that there would have been any harm...
From the Boston Globe
Singer Ana Moura explores the possibilities of fado
By: Siddhartha Mitter
Fado, the elegant Portuguese song form that is enjoying a great renewal, was never quite as rigid as it appears. Its austere setup, with a singer backed only by acoustic guitars, and its constant reverence for fadistas of the past conceal its openness to new...
Her lush alto voice can be smoky and hesitant or clear and pointed, working up to a tremulous insistence that hints at fado’s Arabic connections… Ms. Moura’s fado never forgets about the music’s past, but it lives in the moment The New York Times
Her melancholic intimacy dominates the moment it sashays out of the speakers… setting a mood of mesmerizing sorrow BBC
A torch singer with Mediterranean qualities, Moura has a voice made for melodrama. Ranging from full and round to husky, it is unusually low-pitched and richly sensual, in performance aesthetically thrilling and emotionally heartbreaking Examiner
Ana Moura can reach out to a broader audience without compromising her art. Songs about longing (what the Portuguese call saudade) speak in all languages The Times of London
An internationally-renowned Fado star who’s sung with both Prince and Mick Jagger – the Adele of Portugal The Independent