Célina da Piedade is een gedreven accordeoniste, maar bovenal zangeres en componiste. Diversiteit en integratie zijn de voornaamste ingrediënten van haar eigengereide benadering van het concept ‘wereldmuziek’. Wanneer muziek hetgeen is dat echt telt, dan vloeien de roots en de culturen ineen en zijn er geen grenzen meer om hen te scheiden.
Célina da Piedade heeft het genoegen gehad samen te kunnen werken met grote namen uit de wereldmuziek - Rodrigo Leão, Mayra Andrade, Ludovico Einaudi, Kepa Junkera en Uxia, om er maar enkele te noemen.
Solo speelt Célina da Piedade een zorgvuldig samengesteld repertoire van folk/traditionele muziek en liefdevol geschreven composities van eigen hand. Haar eerste solo album ‘Em Casa’ is in september 2012 in Portugal verschenen, met een selectie uit haar mooiste composities en met de samenwerking van grote namen zoals Kepa Junkera, Rodrigo Leão, Uxia en Samuel Uria.
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***** "One of the best Portuguese CDs of the year, for sure!" (A. Pires in Nlitz, Nov12)
"Not realising this was a double album I put the second CD on first , and it's an impressive opening - deep hand-drumming and bell-chimes leading into and forming the sole accompaniment to Celina da Piedade's calm, (on this track) fado-like, vocal. This isn't in any way a fado album though; she's noted button-accordeonist from southern Portugal deeply involved in the folk songs and dance music of Alentejo, and her material ranges widely, vocally and intrumentally, through her own and tradicional material... Another elegant fado-style vocal accompanied by harp and rich dark cello, then over piano, limpid accordeon and unexpected, nicely-judged musical saw it's the winning traditional slow-mazurca song "A Lira", with intro by Kelly Thoma's Cretan lyra... particularly the string-quartet accompanied "Toada", which combines a 19th Century song from Setúbal with instrumental sections using the 16th Century English melody Bonny Sweet Robin." (Andrew Cronshaw in fRoots Nov 2012)
’Em Casa’(At Home) is the step ahead to affirm Célina as one of the most talented Portuguese instrumentalists. (Miguel Azevedo in Correio da Manhã)
‘Em Casa’ […] the reinvention of Portuguese traditional music. […] Célina da Piedade is at ease in music as she is at home. (Carolina Freitas in Jornal de Letras)