Artists
Cristina Branco
“KRONOS”
Featuring original songs, will be 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 of each of them for Portuguese expression music.
“KRONOS” will be the tenth album of a career which started onstage in Amsterdam, in 1996, and never stopped until today. Cristina Branco’s first years’ repertoire was set by a truly confessed admiration for one of the strongest personalities of Portuguese music of the XX century: Amália Rodrigues. The Fado singer will continue to be an inspiration for Cristina, as we could hear on her penultimate album, recorded in 2006, “LIVE”, where she passed by Amálias’s heritage with her so unique interpretation.
With “ABRIL”, on the following year, Cristina Branco recreated in her own particular way the musical and poetic world of one other strong personality of Portuguese music from the last decades: José Afonso. As Cristina Branco says, these two records where ones “of reflection, ponderation about all that has happened” until now. With “KRONOS” the singer intends to “reflect about the now, what has been gone and what will come (…) and make the future”.
Besides Cristina Branco’s voice on “KRONOS” Cristina is accompanied by Ricardo Dias (piano), José Manuel Neto and Bernardo Couto (Portuguese guitar), Alexandre Silva (fado viola) and Fernando Maia (bass guitar).