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Lisbon approves vote of regret for the death of Mísia

Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar was born in Porto in 1955, where she lived until the age of 20, and died on July 27 in Lisbon at the age of 69. The Lisbon City Council, meeting in extraordinary session on July 31, 2024, expressed its deep sorrow at Mísia's death and its heartfelt condolences to her family and friends.

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She spent her early adult life between Barcelona and Madrid and returned to Portugal at the age of 36, settling in Lisbon, determined to build her own repertoire within the universe of fado.

Singing in Portuguese, French, Neapolitan, Catalan and Spanish, she has been able to mix different musical languages and sounds, giving traditional Portuguese music a new, modern look. In every concert, in every project, in every edition, she has always shown intelligence, daring, talent and an absolutely unique ability to deliver.

Over the decades, Mísia has charted a rich career punctuated by tours of the world's great stages. On some of them, she was the first Portuguese artist to perform, after Amália Rodrigues.

A free and authentic spirit, she has never needed certificates of aesthetic legitimacy to chart her own path, innovating in the field of traditional Portuguese music to elevate it and project it into the future, all over the world.

Her artistic biography has been punctuated by assiduous collaboration with the greatest contemporary Portuguese writers and poets, as well as dialogue with other artistic disciplines - cinema, dance or theater - or even collaborations with Bill T. Jones, Sophie Calle, Isabelle Huppert, Maria de Medeiros, Iggy Pop, Adriana Calcanhotto or Maria Bethânia.

In Portugal, she was awarded the degree of Commander of the Order of Merit by the Presidency of the Republic and the Amália Rodrigues Award in the International Dissemination category, among other prizes and awards. In Italy, she won the Carossone Prize and the Gilda Film Prize. In France, she was awarded the In Honorem Prize (career) by the Charles Cros Academy, received the Medaille de Vermeil and was decorated with the rank of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France.

With the Fado Museum, she has carried out numerous projects and concerts, and played a decisive role in Fado's recognition as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO).

Portugal and the city of Lisbon owe Mísia a debt of infinite gratitude.