Fado singer Maria Joao Cuadros died on Friday at the age of 73, leaving friends and artists distraught because “serious fado ends with her,” writer and lyricist Thiago Torres da Silva told Lusa.
Maria João Cuadros was hospitalized after a long illness.
For Thiago Torres da Silva, who created the album Fado Mulato, in which María João Cuadros interprets fado as well as Brazilian compositions, the artist was “the last one to take fado seriously.”
“It is with great sadness that Fado is done with her,” he told Lusa today, expressing hope that the art world would feel the magnitude of the loss.
Thiago Torres da Silva claims that Maria João Cuadros was the artist for whom he painted the most, and spares no epithets for her: “The most generous, the most artistic, the friendliest, the most attentive to others, the craziest, the freest.” .
Maria João Cuadros was born in Mozambique in 1950. She has released several albums and given many concerts, notably at her fado house in Lisbon, Casa da Mariquinhas.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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