In the words of Sara Correia, “Do Coração”, her new album, released in September 2020, encompasses several ways of loving and being loved, which in her voice, reaches the most intimate and deep that is in us, managing to surprise also, each one who writes for her.

“I remember it well when I met Sara. at Mr. Vinho where he was playing at the time. She must have been about 15 years old. And I remember finishing playing for her, and telling Maria da Fé that I had been the most amazing singer I had heard there. I've always loved hearing her sing, and now that I've had the honor of making a song for her, of eternalizing that song with her on her record, I feel so happy, so proud and so honored, that I don't even know what to say to quantify all this ... I hope this album is another step for people to get to know her, because Sara is good for our health. ” The words are by António Zambujo who signs the theme “Solidão” with Paulo Abreu Lima, the only duet on the album.

“Do Coração” also includes “Chegou Tão Tarde”, published in March 2020. The theme synchronized TVI's prime time telenovela and its video exceeded 100 thousand views on Youtube. “It's a song about lovelessness. One who begins in denial, after a shared life, and who works in us a transformation as terrible as it is wonderful. I tried to create the image of a house full of silences, in half light, where the courage to let those we love go away. ” The words are from Joana Espadinha, author and composer of the song, which, in Sara Correia's voice, takes on fado contours and a moving intensity.

Sara Correia's single, released in September, “Dizer Não” is almost a fado-tango and was written and composed by Luísa Sobral. “I've been a fan of Sara's voice since the first time I heard it. Those serious ones go straight to our hearts and we feel every word that sings. How good it is to be able to hear her sing my melody and my words ”, says Luísa Sobral. “I wrote this song for her because I felt that her sad and beautiful voice perfectly embodied this divided and embittered character. How beautiful was the final result! ”

“Do Coração” also includes the themes “Porquê do Fado” with lyrics and music by Carolina Deslandes and “Por Perto” by Jorge Cruz. Manuela de Freitas signs the lyrics for “Os Teus Recados” (triple fado) and Diogo Clemente the lyrics for “Antes Que Digas Adeus” (Fado Maria). In fact, Diogo Clemente also writes for “Por Passares” with music by Vitorino and “O Pórtico” with music by Mário Pacheco. Musical producer of the album, Diogo Clemente is also the author of “Tu Ganhas Semper”.

Since it debuted in September 2018 with her first album, the same name, the first with the Universal Music label, that Sara Correia has asserted herself as one of the most vital values ​​of the current fado. Dubbed a hurricane by everyone who knows it, it is already a reference of respect within fado, and is unanimously considered the great voice of the new generation.

At the time, the national press fell to his feet, but the 4 **** that he received, in the newspaper O Público, one of the most prestigious Portuguese newspapers, was replicated internationally, in Songlines, one of the most prestigious British magazines, the bible world music internationally.

But from a very early age, Sara Correia has been a regular presence in the best fado houses in the city of Lisbon. And so, she sings with the property and strength of someone who grew up in fado. Fado has lived since he was a child. The fact that she grew up in a fadista family helped her to live surrounded by music and musicians from an early age and to live that life in a very natural way.

“It was all so fast. I have been going to fados since I was a little girl, I have a fadista family and I started singing from an early age ”, she remembers.

Even so, there was a moment that was particularly striking at the beginning of this journey and that led her to decide that she was going to dedicate herself entirely to fado. “When I participated and won the Grande Noite do Fado de Lisboa, I felt that this was what I wanted to do”, he recalls.

Sara Correia was only 13 years old when she was the winner of the Grande Noite do Fado and, soon after, she is invited to sing in one of the most mythical fado houses in the city, Casa de Linhares. There he had the privilege of singing and learning alongside great fado names, namely Celeste Rodrigues, Jorge Fernando, Maria da Nazaré, among others. All of them “were and always will be the school to be a fado singer,” says Sara.

In fact, for you the experience of the fado house is fundamental. “Stepping into fado houses is very important, mandatory, in my view. It is where the hand of singing is won, where we gain our identity, facing the nights after nights singing as the most serious thing in our life. All the great fado singers of today and always had the fado house as their root ”.

She grew up and learned to listen to Amália Rodrigues, an “entire fado singer” who so inspired her on the path she has traced until today, in all its aspects, but Sara Correia also has other great voices as references, such as Fernanda Maria, Beatriz da Conceição and Hermínia Silva.

Still in 2018, her talent captured the attention of French director Joel Santoni, who invited her to sing “Grito”, by Amália Rodrigues, for his series “Une famille formidable”.

She was also invited by Diogo Varela Silva to participate in her next film, "Alfama em Si", portraying Severa, a historical character who is a true symbol of fado, integrating a cast composed of some of the best Portuguese artists.

With its debut in 2018, it was unanimously applauded and called “the great voice of the new generation”. The album earned him, in 2019, two nominations in the first edition of the Play awards, the Portuguese Music Awards, the Radio Festival Revelation Award, more than 30 concerts and audiences rendered in countries such as Spain, South Korea, Norway, Italy , Austria, Réunion Islands and already in 2020 India, Belgium, Holland and Chile.

The years that follow will be consecrated to Sara Correia with concerts planned in Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain, USA, Belgium, Holland, France, Mexico and many more. On stage, Sara Correia is accompanied by a quartet of stars, Diogo Clemente on the viola, Ângelo Freire on the Portuguese guitar, Marino de Freitas on the bass and Vicky Marques on the drums.