Gisela João

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Gisela João (2013)
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Gisela João
  PT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 27/2013 (55 weeks)
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  PT 2 46/2016 (38 weeks)

Gisela João (born November 6, 1983 in Barcelos ) is a Portuguese Fado singer. She writes many of her songs herself and has occasionally appeared as an actress, mostly as a fado singer.

Career

She was born in the northern Portuguese city of Barcelos. At the age of 16 she was already singing in the Adega Lusitana bar in Barcelos Fados. She later moved to Porto to study design. She lived in the city for six years, where she appeared regularly in a fado bar in the historic Ribeira district. As a result, she decided entirely on a singing career and moved to Lisbon in 2011 . She moved into a small apartment in the fadotypical Mouraria district and tried to make herself heard in the capital's music shop. She eventually got appearances in traditional fado bars like Senhor Vinho , Tasca da Bela and Mesa de Frades , which got her first attention. Other appearances followed, for example in the culture factory Fábrica do Braço de Prata or the Disco Lux , where they u. a. Guest singer at a guest performance by the avant-garde trip-hop musician Nicolas Jaar .

In the meantime, the fado scene in Lisbon had become aware of her dark voice and her reserved and surprisingly lively interpretation. In particular, through invitations to guest appearances with Camané , it finally achieved growing popularity. A first highlight was a concert in the small hall of the renowned Centro Cultural de Belém , which had been sold out two weeks earlier.

The attention and rising expectations led to the recording of their first regular album in early 2013. It was simply titled Gisela João , appeared in the 27th week of 2013, and went straight to number three in the Portuguese charts. It was presented by the public radio station Antena 1 and reached number one on the Portuguese charts in week 28, where the album remained listed for 52 weeks. It was also published internationally, and briefly reached the charts there in 2015.

The album was voted album of the year by the main media in the country and achieved gold status . Joss Stone sang with her in a fado bar in Lisbon, and the renowned London world music magazine Songlines awarded the album the highest rating with five stars and the title Top of the World as the world's best release of the month in June 2013 . A large number of different guest performances followed, for example in the traditional Teatro São Luiz in Lisbon, in London's Kings Place , at the popular world music festival FMM Festival das Musicas do Mundo 2014, or in the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. In March 2014, the music magazine Blitz included a CD with seven of her songs. In the same year she received the Amália Best New Artist Award, which is reminiscent of Amália Rodrigues , and was honored with a Globo de Ouro as the best single artist of the year.

Her guest tours have now increasingly taken her abroad, to the USA for the first time in 2014 and to Germany for the first time in 2015, for example at the 40th Bardentreffen in Nuremberg in summer 2015 , where she was celebrated as "the new Portuguese Fado star [...] [ becomes]."

Discography

  • 2013: Gisela João ( Valentim de Carvalho )
  • 2014: Sem Filtro (Valentim de Carvalho, 7-song CD, free supplement in March 2014 of the music newspaper Blitz )
  • 2015: Gisela João - Ao Vivo (Live, Valentim de Carvalho)
  • 2016: Gisela João - Nua ( Valentim de Carvalho )

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Gisela João  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gisela João's albums in the Portuguese charts
  2. ^ Biography of Gisela Joãos in the Museu do Fado , accessed on October 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Stickers on the CD
  4. ↑ Video recording of the meeting between Joss Stone and Gisela João , 4-minute clip on YouTube , accessed on October 3, 2015
  5. ↑ Article from May 19, 2014 on the winners of the Globo de Ouro awards , website of the music magazine Blitz, accessed on October 3, 2015
  6. ↑ Jan Wiele: World music in the Bratwurstidyll. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 30, 2015, accessed on August 19, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Jens Uthoff: Singing in the shadow of Dürer. taz , August 5, 2015, accessed on August 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME João, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese fado singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelos , Portugal