Desfado

Desfado
Light-blue toned picture of a smiley woman. She looks at the camera as she has her hands grabbing her neck. She has short black hair, and wears a dress of the same colour. To her right the text "Ana Moura" is written in black capital letters, and below it "Desfado", written in greyish tones.
Studio album by
Ana Moura
Released12 November 2012[1]
RecordedMay 2012
StudioHenson, Hollywood[2]
GenreFado, jazz
Length61:40
LabelUniversal; Decca (United States)
ProducerLarry Klein
Ana Moura chronology
Leva-me aos Fados
(2009) 		Desfado
(2012) 		Moura
(2015)
Singles from Desfado
  1. "Até ao Verão"
    Released: 15 October 2012[3]
  2. "Desfado"
    Released: 7 January 2013[4]
  3. "A Case of You"
    Released: 21 January 2013[5][6]

Desfado is the fifth album by Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura. It was produced by American record producer Larry Klein in Hollywood, California, and was released on 12 November 2012 in Portugal through Universal Music Portugal, and on 13 February 2013 in the United States by Decca Records. Desfado was met with generally positive reviews by music critics, who praised Moura's vocals. The album counted with the participation of Portuguese songwriters Manel Cruz, Márcia Santos, Pedro da Silva Martins, António Zambujo, and Pedro Abrunhosa, among many others, for the composition of the themes. American musicians Herbie Hancock and Tim Ries contributed in the album, the first being featured in the song "Dream of Fire", whilst Ries in "Havemos de Acordar". The album also features uncredited lyrics by Prince.

Three singles were released from Desfado; "Até ao Verão", "Desfado", and "A Case of You", the last a cover version of Joni Mitchell. The album topped the Portuguese Albums Chart and since then it has been certified 6× Platinum by the Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa, becoming the best-selling album of the 2010s in Portugal, by a Portuguese artist. It also appeared in the charts of Belgium, Spain and the United States. A live edition of the album, titled Desfado, ao Vivo no Caixa Alfama, was recorded in September 2013, during the Alfama Fado Festival. This version won the Amália Award for "Best Album". To promote the album further, Moura toured several performances in multiple countries on her Desfado Tour.

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  2. ^ Desfado (Compact Disc). Ana Moura. Hollywood, California: Universal Music Portugal. 2013. 6 02537 22858 4.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ "Até ao Verão – Single" (in Portuguese). iTunes Store Portugal. Archived from the original on 16 June 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Desfado – Single" (in Portuguese). iTunes Store Portugal. Archived from the original on 16 June 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  5. ^ "A Case of You – Single" (in Spanish). iTunes Store Mexico. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Album A Case of You, Ana Moura". MTV Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 23 October 2021.