Sara Correia

Sara Correia: Sara Correia

by Chris May
June 2, 2019

The late, great bandoneon player Ástor Piazzolla famously said: “There is not one note of happiness in the tango." That is also true of fado, tango's Portugese cousin. Both are the Latin equivalents of African American blues: intense, cathartic expressions of anguish with, in their traditional forms, precious little light at the end of the tunnel. While the blues went on to produce a Saturday-night good-times strand with all its roots intact, tango and fado have not, though both have ...