Gisela João performs in January at the Porto Coliseum

The show's lineup will be based on her latest album, "Inquieta," as well as "things she's been doing" and others she hasn't revealed yet, the fado singer told Lusa news agency.

Last February, Gisela João released "Inquieta", her fourth album, in defense of freedom, in which she revisited the repertoire of José Afonso (1929-1987), with songs such as "Vejam Bem", "A Morte Saiu à Rua", "Que Amor Não me Engana", "Os Bravos", "Balada de Outono", "Canção de Embalar", and also "E Depois do Adeus" (E After Goodbye) (José Niza/José Calvário), by Paulo de Carvalho, the song that served as the first signal for the troops to trigger the movement to overthrow the fascist dictatorship, on April 25, 1974.

Speaking to the Lusa news agency, before the release of this album, the fado singer stated: "My intention with this album is bigger than the date itself, it's bigger than all of that, it's to remind people that our Freedom", the freedom "of each one of us", requires "taking care of the Freedom" that "is ours and our neighbor's", that Freedom "has a direct impact on the lives and freedom of other people."

Gisela João defended the need for "a constant struggle" and "a very concrete defense of Freedom, which is a birthright."

"The right of anyone who is born to Freedom, to the Freedom to be what they want to be, and to be who they want and who they dream of," he argued.

"There's something there [in those songs on the album] -- I don't even know how to explain it -- that makes me feel very Portuguese, like in fado," Gisela João told Lusa, adding that when she listens to them, it feels like she's chanting a mantra with herself: "A repetitive chant that calms my soul."

Born in Barcelos, Gisela João became known to the general public in 2013 with the album of the same name in which she recorded, among others, a new version of "A Casa da Mariquinhas" (Capicua/Alberto Janes), as well as the fado "Sou Tua" (Domingos Gonçalves da Costa/Casimiro Ramos), from the repertoire of Fernanda Maria, among other fado singers such as Flora Silva and Anita Guerreiro, and also "Bailarico Saloio", from Cancioneiro Popular.

In 2023, after the financial crisis and the cuts of the 'troika' years, which inspired her first version of "A Casa da Mariquinhas", Gisela João returned to this classic with Capicua, to find "O Hostel da Mariquinhas", this time in the midst of the housing crisis: "It's just a shame the Portuguese don't win for the T3, and have to move beyond Conchichina."

Gisela João won several children's competitions in the Barcelos region, where she began singing at Adega Lusitana as a teenager. In 2000, she moved to Porto to study fashion design, but music prevailed, and she continued singing.

Later, in Lisbon, she conquered fado stages one by one, culminating in the release of her first album under her own name. Previously, she had recorded with the band Atlantihda, in which fado, as a music of urban expression, was combined with other influences of traditional roots.

In between, he released the albums "Nua" (2016) and "AuRora" (2021).

At the beginning of this year, when "Inquieta" was released, when asked about the responsibility of interpreting songs by authors like José Afonso, the fado singer said that when she starts singing it's as if she wasn't there.

"What's there is the poem. And I wish I could take people to the place I go when I'm singing."

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