Misia - Coração bateu três vezes

Songs of longing and despair are a national tradition in Portugal -- a musical tradition called fado. The word comes from the Latin fatum, meaning fate, destiny or doom.

Fado emerged from the brothels and taverns of Lisbon about 200 years ago, and were first sung by lonely sailors. Today the songs are mostly performed in restaurants and special fado clubs.

Female fado singers, called fadistas, perform these fateful songs usually while draped in black shawls, standing very still. Among the newest wave of fado singers, adding her own contemporary twists to the musical tradition, is a singer named Misia, born in 1955 in Oporto, Portugal.

She just goes by the one name, and she is extremely popular -- especially among the younger set in Portugal.

Why are fado songs so sad? "I think it is the ocean," Misia tells. "We are a little country... with a big, big ocean in front of us. (Fado) is our way to talk and sing about our feelings."

Some of Portugal's finest writers craft lyrics for Misia -- such as Portuguese poet Fernando Passoa, who wrote "Dança De Mágoas" from Misia's 1998 CD Garras Dos Sentidos. Here's a sample:

Like a uselessly full glass/
Which no one lifts from the table/
My heart without sadness overflows/
With a sadness all its own.

"For me it is the only way to be alive," Misia says about her singing. "And to put outside what I have inside. The only way of... cleaning my ghosts and shadows."


Mísia's mother was Catalan and used to be a cabaret dancer, which accounts for many of the influences that shaped her music: tango, bolero, the use of Portuguese guitar with accordion, violin and the piano.

Throughout her career, Mísia developed a new style: she modernized Amália Rodrigues's fado, shocking orthodox audiences by adding to the traditional instruments (bass guitar, classical guitar and Portuguese guitar) the sensuality of the accordion and the violin, and borrowing their finest verses from the greatest Portuguese poets.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADsia

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/july/misia/


Painters: David Lloyd Glover, Ekaterina Prozheyko, Escha Van den Bogerd, James Shepherd, Jarri Spietz, Kevin Bentley, Mary Binford Miller, Ron McDowell, Sergey Ignatenko, Stuart Gilbert, Tomas OMaoldomhnaigh, Trisha Lambi

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[eschasgallery]

thanks for adding some of my paintings to the song

[MayaAtlantis]

@eschasgallery

Thanks for not having a problem with that!

Your works are truly beautiful!

[MacEoin]

A great by one of the greatest fadistas (and the first of the new generation), but why the tacky artwork? The paintings are completely out of touch with Misia's personal style and taste.

[Paisagensdemim]

Gosto disso.

Que delirio de arte !

Quanta expressividade passada nestas telas.

O conjunto da obra está vibrante, sensual e inteligente.

Minha admiraçäo...

[IceBarrier]

Incredibly beautiful music, thank you my dear tiger ;-) for sharing!

[adnauseam7]

a beautiful Fado! Great video :-))

[fotsleukada]

Πολύ όμορφο τραγούδι και ωραίες οι φωτογραφίες που το συνοδεύουν!

Χρήσιμες οι πληροφορίες που παραθέτεις..

Καλό βράδυ!