Katia Guerreiro
| Katia Guerreiro | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Katia Duarte d'Almeida d'Oliveira Rosado Guerreiro |
| Born |
February 23, 1976 Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Years active | 2000 –present |
| Website | katiaguerreiro |
Katia Guerreiro (born February 23, 1976) is a fado singer, who has released eight albums and has received several awards, including Order of Arts and Letters, Chevalier rank from the French government and the Comenda da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique from the Portuguese president.
Guerreiro was born Katia Duarte d'Almeida d'Oliveira Rosado Guerreiro in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa. to Portuguese parents. Soon after her birth, her family returned to São Miguel Island in the Azores, where she grew up.
At age 15, she learning a local type of instrument called a violin da terra, traditional in the Azores and began playing with a band called Rancho Folclórico de Santa Cecília. After high school, she was accepted into medical school in Lisbon, where the graduated in 2000. During this time, she sang with group Tuna Médica and with the Miguel Torga theater group at her school, along with a rock band called Os Charruas.
Her fado career began in 2000, but she still works part-time as a doctor at a hospital near Lisbon. She has campaigned against abortion in Portugal, considering it against her medical ethics.
Guerreiro married poet Rui Ochôa in 2004, but the couple divorced in 2010. She had her first child, a daughter named Mafalda, in 2012 in Lisbon with Jorge Faustino. The album she recorded after this event contains a lullaby dedicated to this child.
Her professional career began in the fall of 2000, when she went on stage at an event to honor fado singer Amália Rodrigues in Lisbon. There she was discovered by fado musicians Paulo Parreira and Mário José Veiga, who were in the audience.
Her first album was Fado Maior (2001) which won the José Afonso Award and was a hit in South Korea. This was followed by Nas maos do fado (2003), with tracks by Luis de Camões, Florbela Espanca, Ary dos Santos and António Lobo Antunes. This work received a nomination for the Jose Afonso Award. In 2005, she recorded a duet with Brazilian artist Martinho da Vila on the album Brasilatinidade, and released a third album,Tudo ou nada, with lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes, Sophia de Mello Breyner and Antonio Lobo Antunes and others. Pianist Bernardo Sassetti also collaborated on the song Minha Senhora das Dores. The album was reissued in 2006, adding two duets with Nay Matogrosso. Fados do Fado (2008/2009) is mostly traditional fado, with covers of songs by Tony de Matos, Max, Tristão da Silva, Hermínia Silva, Teresa Silva Carvalho, João Ferreira-Rosa, and Amália Rodrigues. In 2010, she released a greatest hits album called 10 anos-nas asas do fado, followed by a live album, Katia-Live at the Olympia (CD/DVD) was recorded in 2012 at the Olympia in Paris.
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