- country:Portugal
- label:HM Música - MWF
- type:Solo
- artist contact:HM Música - MWF
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Unanimously recognized as one of the most important fado singers of the new millennium, Katia Guerreiro is, above all, an ambassador for fado and for Portugal in the most varied of international cultural circles: in prestigious venues on every continent and at the most important music festivals in the world.
With ten records released, hundreds of concerts on stages and national and international festivals, Katia Guerreiro - who for some years combined practicing medicine with fado - has already been decorated in Portugal (Order of Infante D. Henrique) and in France (Order of Arts and Letters, Chevalier Grade), and is recognized as one of the most remarkable representatives of Portuguese culture in the world and one of the most brilliant singers of her generation. The awards and prizes she has received throughout her career are given in recognition of her invaluable contribution to the dissemination of Portuguese culture and the projection of Portugal in the world.
Starting from the presentation of her new album "Mistura" where she will sing some of the new songs. Katia Guerreiro returns to the stage in a show that is based on a retrospective of her career representing Portuguese music, poetry, and soul.
This show counts with the participation of the musicians: Pedro de Castro and Luís Guerreiro (Portuguese guitars), André Ramos (classical guitars) and Francisco Gaspar (acoustic bass).
Katia Guerreiro has been considered one of the most important fado singers between the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the 21st one. She surely makes and will always be part of the History of Fado, alongside those who have left us their inheritance - from those who for more than a century helped to build, develop and preserve the dignity of this song form. Just like Katia Guerreiro, who, one day, inadvertently was marked by Fado for being a Fadista…