Claudia Aurora at The Pheasantry

Claudia Aurora’s second album, 'Mulher Do Norte', translates from Portuguese as Woman of the North. Written with a clarity that only distance can allow, it is a homage to the city, the surrounds, the way of living, that helped make her the woman she is. To all that she left behind. It was in 2003 that Claudia swapped her beloved Porto for Bristol. Little did she know that what she began singing in the kitchen as an antidote to homesickness that it would take her to some of the biggest stages in the world. She sang traditional Portuguese folk songs once sung by her grandmother, and in time she wrote her own - impassioned songs of loss, love and longing...

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Claudia Aurora’s second album, 'Mulher Do Norte', translates from Portuguese as Woman of the North. Written with a clarity that only distance can allow, it is a homage to the city, the surrounds, the way of living, that helped make her the woman she is. To all that she left behind. It was in 2003 that Claudia swapped her beloved Porto for Bristol. Little did she know that what she began singing in the kitchen as an antidote to homesickness that it would take her to some of the biggest stages in the world. She sang traditional Portuguese folk songs once sung by her grandmother, and in time she wrote her own - impassioned songs of loss, love and longing. In short, songs of saudade, the emotion at the very core of fado, perhaps best translated as ‘the love that remains after something is gone’ - a lover, a comrade, a place.

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