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Mísia
(Misia)
Real name Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar, Portuguese singer Mísia embodies the
new generation of Fado. Born in Porto on June 18, 1955, to a Portuguese father
and a Spanish-Catalan mother, Mísia spent her youth in the popular
establishments where the fado tradition was perpetuated. Brought up by her
grandmother, a former cabaret singer, she abandoned her studies in anthropology
to try her hand at singing according to her own tastes, between the popular
tradition and the classical education she had received from her mother, a former
dancer. She moved to Barcelona, where she frequen...
