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• Raquel Tavares (Portuguese guitar; Fado guitar ; acoustic bass)

• country:
  Portugal
• region or city:
  Lisboa
• style(s):
  Fado World
• label:
  Movieplay Portuguesa, S.A.
• type:
  Solist
• gender:
  female
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  Sonora Urbana

Raquel Tavares lives where her fado dwells: in the heart of Alfama. A heart traditionally near the mouth, in the closest binding to the feelings one can aim.

Raquel sings what she sees, feels and smells around her, what she daily lives. And nothing fulfils her more than the real and touchable stories written by the hand of Linhares Barbosa, the fado's poet who better told the tales of the people.

But if Bairro quite naturally refers to Alfama, at the same time it lays to geography. An inside geography made of other streets and other alleys, other doors and windows, that draw the musical path of Raquel Tavares.

From the little girl who sang for pleasure to the woman who only gets pleasure from singing. This record states a series of fulcral moments in the fado singer's musical route.

Only she has the key to open each of the secrets here contained, but it's no longer a secret that Raquel Tavares, winner of the Revelation Award Amalia Rodrigues 2006, it's not only a voice which promises a lot.

Here, in Bairro, she begins to fulfil that promise.

Links

• Raquel Tavares myspace
• Site Sonora Urbana