Friday, May 16, 2025

Tereza Tarouca

 

 OS MELHORES FADOS DE TEREZA TAROUCA

 RCA, 1978, 098

 Tereza Tarouca (1942-2019) was born Tereza de Jesus Pinto Coelho Telles da Silva but she decided to take her great grand-father's name, Tarouca. She was a cousin of Maria Tereza de Noronha. Born to a musical family in Lisbon she started singing at the age of eleven then began singing fado when she was thirteen. She signed with RCA in 1962.
She always worked with prestigious composers like D. António de Bragança, João de Noronha, Alfredo Marceneiro, Pedro Homem de Mello, Maria Manuel Cid among others. Side A starts with one of her hits Saudade, siléncio e sombra. She was one the great voices of fado.
As the title says this cassette is a compilation and the accompanists are not mentionned.
There is also a LP by the same name with two extra songs.

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1 comment:

  1. A great Voice with very good accompanists !! A beauty !! Merci Herve!!

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