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Lula Pena (born May 15, 1974) is a Portuguese fado singer, composer and poet from
As well as fado ("phado" as she prefers), Pena's music is strongly influenced by a range of other types of music, including chanson, flamenco and
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Lisbon
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, Portugal.
Biography
As well as fado ("phado" as she prefers), Pena's music is strongly influenced by a range of other types of music, including chanson, flamenco and blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
, as well as music from Mexico, Greece and Italy. Lula Pena says her approach to music is “wandering borderless and intuitively through different languages and sounds”. She performed at WOMEX 14 Official Showcase Selection of World Music Expo
WOMEX (short for Worldwide Music Expo) is an international world music support and development project based in Berlin, whose main event is an exposition held annually in different locations throughout Europe. It integrates a trade fair, showca ...
in October 2014.
Pena appeared at the WOMAD festival in 2016.
Discography
* ''Phados'' (1998) * ''Troubadour'' (2010) * ''Archivo Pittoresco'' (2017)References
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