Artists
Cristina Branco
Biography
With regard to the life and music of Cristina Branco (b. 1972, Almeirim, Portugal), one could say – as in the lyric by Amália Rodrigues – that she lives and breathes fado.
It was a serendipitous set of circumstances that first brought fado music into Cristina’s life. Though, in a certain way, it was Cristina – with her aesthetic daring and unique interpretive style – who happened upon fado, and in its most deeply traditional musical and social form. “It started as a kind of game, as an evening of songs among friends,” she likes to recall. [read more]
Fado Tango
Cristina Branco
When a memory repeatedly assails us, we often need to find the reason why. This CD could be seen as being composed of memories or journeys or flashbacks.
I have an old record-player, LPs by Gardel, I have Buenos Aires and Paris and Lisbon in my heart,
I have Amália in an old photograph taken in Rio de Janeiro in 1945 [more about the album]
“KRONOS”
Featuring original songs, launched in March 2009
In March 2009 Cristina Branco will present us with her new album, entitled “KRONOS”. The unifying theme will be TIME, and this album will include originals composed by a dozen of very different musicians united by one common trace: all of them have a long career of many years now, giving an extraordinary contribute to assert a quality Portuguese songbook. José Mário Branco, Sérgio Godinho, Amélia Muge, Rui Veloso/Carlos Tê, Vitorino, Janita Salomé, Victorino d’Almeida, Mário Laginha, Carlos Bica, João Paulo Esteves da Silva and Ricardo Dias compose “KRONOS” original themes. It would be tedious, and not much more than useless to stand out the great value and importance each of them for Portuguese expression music. [more]
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Discography
Fado Tango (CD, Universal, 2011), international release April 2011
Kronos (CD, Universal, 2009)
Abril (CD, Universal, 2007)
Live (CD, Universal, 2006)
Ulisses (CD, Universal, 2005)
Sensus (CD, Universal, 2003)
Corpo Iluminado (CD, Universal, 2001)
O Descobridor (CD, Universal, 2002) - reedition de Slauerhoff
Cristina Branco sings Slauerhoff (CD, 2000)
Post-Scriptum (CD, L'Empreintdigitale/Harmonia Mundi, 1999) – reedited in 2000 with a new theme
Murmúrios (CD, Music & Words, 1998)
Cristina Branco in Holland (CD, Ed. Author, 1997)