Cristina Branco (singer)

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Cristina Branco 2007 in Gijón , Asturias

Cristina Branco (* 1972 in Almeirim , Ribatejo ) is a Portuguese fado - singer .

Career

Cristina Branco no longer comes from the unbroken tradition of Fado. According to her own admission, she was brought to fado by records by Amália Rodrigues , which her grandfather gave her for her 18th birthday.

She originally wanted to be a journalist. Musically she was more interested in the work of singers like Billie Holiday , Ella Fitzgerald , Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell . The discovery of Fado under the impression that Amália's voice had left on her then heralded her career as a singer. After a brief appearance on a Portuguese television program, she was invited to the Netherlands , where she gave her first public concert in 1996 in Zaal 1 in Amsterdam . The recordings of her appearance there on days 25. – 27. April 1997, on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the Carnation Revolution , are self-published as CD in 1998. As a result, interest in Cristina Branco increased, also in the context of a general renewed interest in Fado. She goes on concert tours across Europe and North America and records other CDs.

According to her own understanding, she is not a pure fadista , but a singer who also sings fado. For example, with the album Abril she is recording new songs by José Afonso , setting works by Jan Jacob Slauerhoff on O Descobridor , and crosses both styles with Fado Tango .

Again and again she expands her repertoire beyond the traditional boundaries without giving up the connection to the original Fado. One of her numerous projects in January 2019 was the program "Fado & more: Cristina Branco", which she recorded with the hr big band on January 17 and 18, 2019 in the hr broadcasting hall in Frankfurt am Main under the direction of Mário Laginha and which was then repeatedly broadcast on television.

Discography

Cristina Branco in Bochum (March 2014)
  • 1998: Cristina Branco in Holland
  • 1999: Murmúrios
  • 2000: O descobridor - Cristina Branco canta Slauerhoff
  • 2000: Post-Scriptum
  • 2001: Corpo Iluminado
  • 2003: Sensus
  • 2005: Ulisses
  • 2006: Live
  • 2007: April
  • 2009: Kronos
  • 2011: Não há só tangos em Paris ("Fado Tango" is the name of a CD that has all the songs in a different order)
  • 2013: Alegria
  • 2014: idealist
  • 2016: Menina
  • 2018: Branco

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  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ "Fado & more: Cristina Branco" , entry on the dr hr Bigband website, accessed on August 23, 2020
  3. ↑ "Fado & More - with Cristina Branco" , repeat broadcast from June 25, 2020, retrieved from the ARD media library on August 23, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Branco, Cristina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese fado singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Almeirim , Ribatejo