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The New Voice of
Contemporary Fado Music

Ramana Vieira is an internationally acclaimed recording artist, well known as a contemporary Fado singer—a fadista.

Fado is a music genre that is sometimes called “Portuguese Blues,” characterized by poetic lyrics of love, loss, redemption, and occasionally humor.

She is a stunning vocalist, a proficient pianist, and gifted songwriter who has composed, performed, and recorded many of her own original Fados. Several of these have been nominated at the largest Portuguese music awards organization: International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA). 

Ramana is a northern California native of Portuguese descent. Her work captures the essence of Fado and well beyond. She performs and records music that ranges from the soulful haunting ballads and catchy playful songs of Fado to her own original compositions. Fado is a performance genre, incorporating music and poetry. In 2011 Fado became a part of UNESCO World Heritage. 

Vieira has performed throughout the United States, including California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Central Valley, and San Luis Obispo), the East Coast including New York, Hawaii, Florida, and the Pacific Northwest; and Internationally in Portugal, Macau, China, and Mexico. In 2023 Ramana was honored to headline at the Art’ Camacha festival in her parents’ homeland of Madeira, Portugal. She was also featured on the RTP international network while in Madeira.

Vieira’s brilliant musicality and colorful heritage appeal to a global audience. In addition to the traditional fados, and her masterful original compositions, Vieira has now compiled a synergetic repertoire that reflects the full scope of her identity by incorporating her background of American theater, blues, and soulful classics into her sets. Through this multifaceted fusion, Vieira has finally fulfilled her fado . . . fate.

In her own words, “I love being Portuguese and singing my roots. I just feel now is the time for Ramana to embrace “all of me”—my American and Portuguese heritage. I am sitting at the precipice of something amazing and am excited to see where this is going to take me and my group. Yes, it’s time.” 

She is joined by a very talented cast of musicians: Jeff Furtado, a Portuguese American guitarist and singer/songwriter who lives in California (his mother is from Madeira and his father is from San Miguel); David Parker on bass; Vincent Tolliver on violin/viola/Portuguese Mandolin who taught the famous Zendaya music while teaching in Oakland; and Joe Sam on percussion.