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"From Mexico with love"

* VISAO MAGAZINE , PORTUGAL number 831 "FADO EM VOZES LA DE FORA" - FADO IN OUTSIDERS VOICES by/ por: Nuno Miguel Guedes
"From Mexico, with all the love ... a lot to ensure the dissemination of Fado and Portuguese culture. What, in your country, not an easy thing. Already with two albums recorded, the PSFB fight against the tide of and lack of crisis .... Who says so in love, no doubt ... the point of wanting to know everything about Portugal. And it fate, and her fate. From there, the story continues to be love between back and forth to our country. The Mexican singer dreams of returning to his declared commitment and love: Portugal " www.visao.pt -

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- Visao - Portugal


"She painted the night of fado music made in Mexico"

NOTIMEX- MEXICAN PRESS AGENCY

She painted the night of Portuguese music made in Mexico Mexico, 8 Oct (Notimex) .- The fado is also made in Mexico and it was shown by the group Poetic Saudade Fado Belém (PSFB), noting that nostalgia is not unique to Portugal and singer Marcela Ortiz Aznar has the sense to interpret the traditional music of the Lusitanian people.

PSFB yesterday offered the first of three concerts given at the headquarters of the Foundation of the sculptor Sebastián, where he offered an evening full of saudade (nostalgia), to interpret a series of Portuguese melodies that speak of love, but also that have a social message.
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- Notimex


"The unmistakable of portuguese Fado at the Hermilo Novelo Hall"

The Mexican group Poetica Saudade Fado Belém (PSFB) gave an emotional concert at Sala Hermilo Novelo.They performed pieces such as Maria Lisboa, Xaile of Silence,Ai Mouraria, Coimbra Choupal-April in Portugal,Na Beira do Mar,among others which are interspersed with some poems by Pessoa

The strength of the melancholy of fado, Portugal Mediterranean soul of dark streets caught in a singing voice that is delicate caress for the soul and even the verses that one of the greatest poets of all time, Fernando Pessoa, he dictated to Ricardo Reis, one of its consequences literary evening took place on Friday in Room Hermilo Ollin Novelo Yoliztli Cultural Center.

The emotional concert devoted entirely to this long and beautiful nostalgic sigh is fado, Portugal's national music par excellence, was in charge of the excellent Mexican group Poetica Saudade Fado Belém PSFB)which always showed the quality of interpretation that has on stage, which was able to move the audience that filled the concert hall.
The young artists performed works in the delicate voice of singer Marcela Ortiz Aznar was the guide who set the tone, rhythm, pauses.
The group demonstrated clearly that the fado continues today as a recognized symbol of Portugal, like a song the world that has its essence, beautiful music, a melancholy that shows all the "saudade" (longing) that is able to feel that brotherly people.

The themes are sung in the melancholy fado, nostalgia and small stories of everyday life in the slums, but especially the frustration and fatalism. In it, he expressed the bad times of life.

The concept Poetica Saudade Fado Belém (PSFB) was established by the Mexican singer Marcela Ortiz, by and for the admiration of the music of Madredeus, fado and the Portuguese poetry.

The aim of PSFB is positioning itself as a de facto group formed by Mexicans. According to its own definition, PSFB travel with their music and can show that Mexicans perform tunes from other countries where there are parallels between them. Without fear of error, are the first Mexican group that interprets traditional Fado, where the voice is "voice of the people", ie not a voice from the classical area (soprano, for example, to interpret fado).

Poetica Saudade Fado Belém (PSFB) consists of three young Mexicans Zarazua Noyola, Gerardo Javier Franco Granados, on guitar, and Marcela Ortiz Aznar voice/production.

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Discography

CD "Desvarío I" 2006
(at Radio Educación 1060 AM and IMER RADIO )

CD "Stravaganza" 2007 (played at the same radio stations)

cd "Nosso Fado" 2009 includes lyrics of one of great fadista Ana Moura's writers

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Bio

Fado & Nostalgic music
Marcela was borne in La Jolla, California; USA.California, she made her studies in México City.

She begans to sing fado , traditional portuguese music in the 90`s with other rythms like jazz, blues and alternative music.

She creates “Poética Saudade Fado Belém” her fado group in 2003. She begans formal presentations in 2005, being the first group in our country in making & singing traditional fado.

In 2006 & 2007 she wins two awards of the Ministry of Culture in México City : “artes por todas partes” y “rescatarte”

She has been in Portugal several times at some fado houses: Tasca de Chico, Bacalhau de Molho , Cafè Luso (donde cantara Amália Rodrigues) , Taverna del Rey , Clube de fado, Mesa de Frades … & at private events in Loures , Lisbon and at Mèrida , Venezuela.

She has performed at: La Planta de Luz Cultural Libanese Center, Ollin Yoliztli , Plaza Loreto , Festivals in Tlaxcala, Celaya and Guanajuato. At Radio Fórmula , Portuguese Embassy at Mexico , Claustro de Sor Juana University, Sebastian Art Foundation, etc..

She has 3 cd’s
“Desvarìo I “ 2006 , “Stravaganza”
2007 and “Nosso Fado…” 2009

She has appeared in two of the most
important portuguese publications:
VISA, TIME OUT LISBOA, Radio Amália and others.

Marcela Ortiz - FADO

The nostalgic poetic of Portugal is present in one of the best and most sublime voices of Mexico

Of mexican heart but with one of the most exquisit and intense nostalgic expressions, Marcela falls in love with fado and portuguese music in the 90's listening to the legendary Amália Rodrigues and Madredeus.

This is how in 2003 one of the most lofty stories of a mexican with portuguese soul begins to be written, the professional career of Marcela has taken her to act at various venues like La Planta de luz, Fundación Sebastian, Ollín Yoliztli, to name a few. garnering high praise for her voice and her interpretation of the music of that country.

With three cd's as an interpreter , Marcela is considerated as a precursor in the fado singing in our country, being the first in singing (mainly) traditional fado and unpublished fados written by and for her.

In 2006 and 2007 she wins the competitions of the Culture Ministry in Mexico City "Artes por todas partes" and "Rescatarte"
Along her already strong record she covers several important venues through the country having also presented her beautiful song in Venezuela and Portugal in recognized fado houses getting excelent reviews in important publications of that country.

This is how with that emotional and melodic voice , Marcela invites you to wrap in the passion and nostalgia of the lusitano music let us take you over the bow of this trip in one of the most poetic and nostalgic tradition of Portugal with the emotive heart of that distant country and only for you.