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13 Jun 2013
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The musical adventure continues beautifully with Fado and Chaâbi
As part of the "Nuits de la médina", an artistic and initiatory journey into the heart of the mythical alleyways of this universal heritage of humanity, the audience of the Fès Festival of Sacred Music of the World had an appointment on 12 June with the Portuguese singer Ana Moura, considered the new princess of Fado.
A Portuguese musical genre that takes the form of a melancholic song usually accompanied by plucked string instruments, Fado is an urban phenomenon, born in the 19th century in the port and working-class districts (Alfama, Mouraria, the Moorish quarter, or Bairro Alto) of Portugal thanks to sailors, who, through their travels, absorbed Arab songs and the ancient melodies of Afro-Brazilian slaves. Around 1870, Fado, with the great singer Severa, also became the preserve of an aristocracy fond of this poetic verve, before becoming the song of an entire people in the sixties thanks to the great Amalia Rodriguez. Ana Moura, a new iconic figure of Fado, carries within her the romantic and tragic sensitivity of a Fado deeply rooted in the city of Lisbon, where both feminine and masculine interpretations have asserted themselves. Her beauty, still barely touched by suffering, sings of an exist…
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