Raquel Tavares

ARTIST: Raquel Tavares

COUNTRY: Portugal

GENRE: Fado

DESCRIPTION: One of the most representative Fado singers of the new generation, winner of the 2006 Amalia Rodrigues Revelation Prize

MORE ABOUT: Raquel Tavares (born January 11, 1985) is a singer of Fado. She was born in Lisbon. She had a normal route on her education, but finally decided she could not leave music behind. She won the biggest song contest dedicated to fado in Portugal: “Grande Noite Do Fado”. She sings regularly at “Bacalhau De Molho”, one of the most famous fado houses in Lisbon, and has made shows all around Europe, in cities like Paris, Rome or Madrid. Raquel sings what she sees, feels and smells around her, what she lives from day to day. And nothing suits her purposes better than the tangible, real-life stories written by Linhares Barbosa, the fado poet who best told the tales of the people. Her first album was released in 2006 and this was also the year when she was the winner of the Amália Rodrigues Revelation Prize. Her second album, “Bairro”, was released in May 2008. She’s been named one of the most representative fado singers of the new generation and no longer just a promising voice.

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:

- “Bairro” (2008)
- “Raquel Tavares” (2006)

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