Ramana Vieira is a force in spreading awareness of fado, having developed her style in California, abroad in Portugal, and listening to its many modes.
(Emily Payne)
A fadista for a new generation
Vieira revives and reinvents the dramatic song style
Ramana Vieira is a force in spreading awareness of fado, having developed her style in California, abroad in Portugal, and listening to its many modes.
(Emily Payne)
BERKELEY, Calif. — When Ramana Vieira talks about the late fado queen Amália Rodrigues, her brown eyes shine and her voice takes on a worshipful tone. But her starstruck affect doesn’t mean that Vieira feels constrained by Rodrigues’s sanctified status as the embodiment of the convention-bound Portuguese song form, with its anguished disquisitions on loss, heartache, and the vicissitudes of ... (Full article: 808 words)
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