Carla Pires
Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal | Established. Jan 01, 2004 | MAJOR
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Press
The new album, "Rota das Paixões" (Route of the Passions) reveals now a singer who has everything to become one of the greats fado singers of 2012.
- Êxito magazine (CM-pt) - Miguel Azevedo
An intense moment with one of the best shows of the festival!
With a voice that carries in its accents, flashes of light and shadow reflections,(…) Carla compensates the opacity of words, for a public who has not knowledge of the Portuguese language, by facial expressions, the grace of gesture and dance steps, combining her voice and her talent with the complicity of the guitars .
The songs of Carla Pires they don’t celebrate just love, they also speak about friendship or they pay homage to her city, Lisbon, adding accents of joy that can not escape to a conquered public.
The evening ends in the enthusiasm of the public,that sings together with Carla Pires, the refrains of her songs. - Claire Fontaine - La Marseillaise
Discography
O Fado em concerto - 2002 (Ed.Vidisco)
Ilha do meu fado- 2005 (Ed. Ocarina)
Rota das Paixoes- 2011 (Ed.Ocarina)
Rota das Paixoes - 2012 (Harmonia Mundi/World Village)
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Bio
Carla Pires began her singing career in 1993, she participated in several musical projects, recorded soundtracks and also played roles as an actress for TV series in Portugal. In 1996 won 1st place at the Festival Thessaloniki (Greece), organized by the Societies of Authors in Europe on behalf of Portugal, with the theme "Song of Wind and Earth" that was arranged to be included on her last album: Rota das Paixes.
In 2002, , the year in which Fado began to take over her main musical aspirations, she recorded with the Quintet Amlia, the CD "Fado em Concerto" and from September 2002 to July 2005 played the role of "young Amalia" in the biggest musical ever produced in Portugal - Musical "Amalia". Records her first solo album to Ocarina, "Ilha do meu Fado", in 2004. Some tracks of this CD integrated several national and international collections.
This marked the beginning of her solo career.
In 2005 Carla was invited to represent Portugal at the World Exhibition in Japan performing at the auditorium of Oharu.
Carla Pires statement as Fado singer happens in 2008, when she held a tour with 10 concerts in France, and also performed in Algeria, Austria and Spain.
International concerts have been constant in his career, highlighted by the opening concert of one of the biggest festivals in Europe (Flanders International Festival-Ghent) and the performance in Babel Med Music, Marseille, the second largest world music fair in Europe.
Her latest album, Rota das Paixoes was released in 2011 in Portugal and published, the following year internationally, by the label World Village/Harmonia Mundi. Another milestone in the recording history of this artist, who carries with her unique voice the Fado and its special feeling through amazing musical routes.
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