Portuguese singer Mafalda Arnauth had a passion for music from an early age, but had no illusions about a professional music career. Yet things turned out differently for the veterinary studies student. She now belongs to the young generation of musicians who keep fado new and fresh. On Arnauth's sixth studio album Fadas, she sings traditional fado classics as an explicit tribute to historical fado
… singers such as Amália Rodrigues, Hermínia Silva, Fernanda Baptista, Celeste Rodrigues and Beatriz da Conceição. Arnauth has a pleasant singing voice: clear and delicate with a light vibrato. In a subtle way, without pathos, she sings, among others, Tendinha, Hortela Mourisca and Pomba Branca in atmospheric arrangements for Portuguese guitar (Luís Guerreiro), two classical guitars, acoustic bass, accordion, soprano saxophone and cello. As a closing track she sings a Portuguese version of Astor Piazzolla's Invierno Porteño, which fits very well with the whole. (SvdP)more