Aldina Duarte

Singer and lyricist Aldina Duarte may have come late to fado, but she is one of its most important voices, a hardcore fadista whose repertoire consists of more than 180 songs. Indeed, her commitment to the music and its poetry is total. Duarte was born in the housing projects of the Chelas neighborhood of Lisbon. Her father was killed in the Colonial War when she was just three months old. Her early years were spent under Portugal's fascist dictatorship, which ended in 1974. She was raised solely by her mother, who instilled in her a love for reading early, and an insatiable...