When you see fado singer Mísia for the first time, you wouldn't say she's approaching sixty. With her bright red lipstick, pale skin and sharp bob haircut, she looks more like a twenties. Besides her striking appearance, Mísia is best known as an artist who likes to innovate fado. She did this by fitting 'strange' instruments such as accordion, piano and violin into the fado adage. Judging from
… the music on Senhora De Noite, Mísia's life has not always been a celebration, because she expresses emotions such as homesickness and sorrow with a grand and theatrical gesture. Her songs often follow the same pattern. The song starts small, usually with only one instrument, but after that the musicians work towards an emotional finale full of swelling violins and long strokes of the singer. Mísia has a penetrating voice and in combination with the thick arrangements, it is often too bombastic. Really something you have to love. A nice detail is that for this CD the singer only appealed to female lyricists. (PdK)more
