Born in Barcelos, Vânia Leal first sang fado in public at a school party, but she never stopped singing it. For years, she balanced fado with her profession, until, in 2018, her profession became… fado. By then, she was singing daily in venues across the Algarve, the region she had moved to. Three years later, she returned to her hometown and began performing at one of Porto’s most emblematic venues, the traditional fado restaurant O Fado. Vânia now takes to the stage at Casa da Música, offering a singular perspective on traditional fado while paying tribute to some of the fadistas from whom she has learned the most – from Amália Rodrigues to Cristina Branco, via Beatriz da Conceição. The owner of a voice that seems to carry the entire history of fado within it, she takes us on an expansive journey, from the earliest days of Portugal’s national song to the present.