Ana Bacalhau & Diogo Piçarra

Portuguese singer Ana Bacalhau is arguably best-known as the charismatic, energetic, and sometimes humorous frontwoman for platinum-selling, Lisbon-based, topical neo-fado group Deolinda. Possessed of a welcoming, buoyant alto, she articulates Deolinda songwriter/guitarist Pedro Da Silva Martins' lyrics (that poignantly and often bitingly observe historical, economic, and political and social realities confronting Portuguese society) with authority, commitment, an abundance of grace, and a poet's sense of timing. Further, Bacalhau established her musical identity apart from De...