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Also known as Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar

Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar (18 June 1955 – 27 July 2024), known mononymously as Mísia, was a Portuguese fado singer. She was a polyglot, singing some of her songs in Spanish, French, Catalan, English, and Japanese.

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Mísia is a pseudonym of singer Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar (1955, Porto, Portugal - 2024, Lisbon, Portugal). She was the first portuguese singer of the xxth century to bring a revolution to fado, by making it free of its stereotyped form. Throughout her career, in which it is clearly traced and expressed a deep respect, understanding and humbleness before Fado, Mísia developed a new style: she stripped the Fado off the shawl of the "amalian" type <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/M%C3%AD

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Susana
Gender
female
Citizenship
Portugal
Place of birth
Porto
Place of death
Lisbon
Occupation
actor
Languages spoken
French
Genre
fado
Instrument
voice
Official website
www.misia-musik.com
Image
Misia-01.jpg
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Mísia (Portuguese singer)
date of birth
1955-06-18
name in native language
Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar
pseudonym
Mísia
date of death
2024-07-27
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
cancer
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Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar (18 June 1955 – 27 July 2024), known mononymously as Mísia, was a Portuguese fado singer. She was a polyglot, singing some of her songs in Spanish, French, Catalan, English, and Japanese.

==Background== Mísia's mother was Catalan and used to be a cabaret dancer, which accounts for many of the influences that shaped her music: tango, bolero, the use of Portuguese guitar with accordion, violin and the piano.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mísia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.