Miguel Poveda & Carminho in Badajoz

Miguel Poveda is a Spanish flamenco singer, born in Badalona in 1973. Known as a cantaor with a command of traditional flamenco forms, he has also interpreted copla and poetry; his major recordings include Coplas del querer, arteSano and Sonetos y poemas para la libertad. At the 1993 Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas in La Unión, he received the Lámpara Minera, an early landmark in his performance career. He later recorded the live album Real at Madrid’s Teatro Real. His subsequent theatre tours included programmes built around El tiempo vuela and Diverso.

Carminho is a Portuguese fado singer, born in Lisbon in 1984. She established her recording career with the albums Fado, Alma and Canto, then explored Brazilian songwriting on Carminho Canta Tom Jobim. Her later work includes Portuguesa and “O Quarto,” which she performed in Yorgos Lanthimos’s film Poor Things. Carminho has performed at the Barbican in London and Carnegie Hall in New York. Her concerts center on her voice and an acoustic ensemble featuring Portuguese guitar, classical guitar and bass, a format also used for her festival appearance at WOMAD.