Daughter of the renowned fado singer Teresa Siqueira, Maria do Carmo Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade, better known as Carminho, made her debut singing in public at the age of twelve at the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon. Fado, her first album (2009), was named the best album of 2011 by the British magazine Songlines, and led Carminho to perform at Womex 2011 and at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters as part of Fado’s application for world heritage status. In 2012, she released her second album Alma with which she toured all over Europe. The album led her to fulfill her dream of recording with Brazilian legends Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque and Nana Caymmi. Her relationship with Brazil runs deeper in her next album, Canto (2014) featuring Caetano Veloso, his youngest son Tom, Marisa Monte and Arnaldo Antunes. Portuguesa, Carminho’s most recent Latin Grammy nominated album, was released in August 2023 in the United States by Nonesuch/Warner Records, around the same time that she performed one of her own compositions for the Pope in Lisbon. She was recently featured in Yorgos Lanthinos critically-acclaimed, Academy Award-winning film Poor Things, in a scene where she performs “O Quarto (Fado Menor)”; the song released on all digital platforms in late December following the film’s premiere. The song was chosen by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite summer picks. Carminho was also featured last June on Good Morning, America.
