Ana Moura review – Portuguese blues get chance to dance

Cadogan Hall, LondonMoura’s tremendous fado has gone upbeat, electric and pop, but she reverts to acoustic for her most poignant, intimate numbersAna Moura started out singing fado, the Portuguese answer to the blues, in Lisbon. Mixing traditional forms with so-called “musical fado”, in which other songs are given the emotional treatment, she began edging towards the pop mainstream, sang with the Rolling Stones and Prince, and worked with producer Larry Klein. Today, she is a mainstream st...

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