Carminho

After several decades of creative doldrums, fado roared back into relevance in the 1990s when a rising generation of Portuguese artists came to embrace a tradition that evolved out of the hard-scrabble nation’s once vast empire. One of the brightest stars to emerge in the new golden age of fado is Maria do Carmo Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade, known to her multitude of fans as Carminho. Hailing from a family of singers (her mother is the illustrious fadista Teresa Siqueira), Carminho possesses a strikingly rich voice, arresting stage presence and blue-flame emotional intensity. While she’s an essential part of the fado revival, like her slightly older contemporary Ana Moura, Carminho is an outward looking artist who brings fado’s boundless ache to a wide array of material from rock and soul to jazz and Brazilian popular music. Her reputation spread far beyond her homeland when, “Perdóname,” her duet with Spanish pop star Pablo Alborán, became a major hit in 2011. Whatever style she explores, Carminho is an incandescent artist who inhabits the pulsing heart of every song she sings.

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