Biography
Oporto, Portugal. Dubbed the ‘black angel of fado’, Mísia is a fado singer as bleak as the ebony clothes draped around her body and as striking as her haircut on the sleeve of 2003’s Canto. Born to a Portuguese father and a Catalan mother, Mísia descends from an artistic lineage - her grandmother was a music hall dancer and her mother a ballerina. She gravitated towards fado, deriving a stage name that was a tribute to Mísia Sert, muse of Stephane Mallarmé and friend of Marcel Proust and Pablo Picasso. Mísia has stated a ‘marvellous and neurotic relationship with fado’ and like her peer Mariza, she simultaneously shows respect for the deeply ingrained rules and conventions of the 150 year old genre and replenishes the essentially conservative tradition with new literary references, adapting verses by ancient poets or performing material written especially for her by contemporary artists (such as...
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