“An exquisite foray into jazz-inflected contemporary fado” (fRoots, UK)
“‘Silencio’ (by Claudia Aurora) is quickly becoming my favourite album” (Sam Murray, Presenter/Producer – Folk Off!, Liverpool Student Radio)
“A beguiling voice! And her instrumentalists are superb!” (Michael Church, The Scotsman, UK)
“As she projected her voice across the audience you could feel the power and soul in the performance; this gave me goose bumps, and made me feel at ease and memorised by her beautiful voice.” (Jonathan Frost, Norwich Evening News, UK)
“Mayra Andrade and Claudia Aurora are the most amazing singers I have ever heard and I will never forget them.” (Jonathan Frost, Norwich Evening News, UK)
“2011, deservedly, has been a heck of a year for Claudia Aurora and on tonight’s showing – one of the most sexy, sensual, affecting and accomplished to fill the Folk House for some time – 2012 should see her fly. Truly, Silêncio is golden.” (Joe Spurgeon, Venue Magazine, UK)
“It virtually defies belief: many are the times we’ve marvelled at Claudia Aurora’s darkly beautiful fado performances, but with new band in town – in particular the hummingbird shimmer of Bernardo Couto’s Portuguese guitar – she’s somehow raised her game to a whole new level. The centre of the drama, of course, remains that extraordinary voice, and its unerring ability to offer deepest felt emotion the clearest possible expression. Truly, this is an exquisite melancholy, as both the watery eyes of many in the crowd – and their thunderous standing ovation come curtain down – attest.” (Julian Owen, UK)
“Amazing performance… very moving.” (Andy Pryor, UK)
“Claudia, I LOVED your performance! Your voice is incredible!! I felt so involved with the performance, it is so emotional.” (Katie Goldsmith, UK)
“Thank you for an amazing gig yesterday! I was totally blown away!! You have such an amazing voice.” (Gnisha Bevan, UK)
“Emotionally intense and captivating fado” (Musicport World Music Festival, UK)
“I think we can safely say that the women won this year with amazing performances by Mercedes Peon, Mari Boine, Claudia Aurora, Natalie Duncan, Cigdem Aslan, Kim Richey & Mary Coughlan in particular.” (Musicport World Music Festival, UK)
“Just to say thank you. The gig in Colchester last week was amazing & my Portuguese girlfriend loved it having not seen fado live since she left Lisbon 21 years ago.” (Gareth Gault, UK)
“There are hundreds upon hundreds of acts in the BrisBath area alone, but you should definitely mark your card to check the following. Claudia Aurora is the country’s premier exponent of fado (Portuguese Blues) and, when she is not wowing the London’s Southbank, still regularly plays in the area where it all began.” (Venue Magazine, UK)
“Silencio is breathtaking. There is just something soooo….wonderful about this artist’s voice. Pls check her music out :)” (Coral Rose, UK)
“Amazing and totally awesome performance at Musicport Festival, Bridlington. Such a pleasure to meet and interview a wonderfully talented artist such as yourself. Thank you for your new album, Silencio is superb!” (Coral Rose, UK)
“@MusicportFest Tough to answer as @THEAndyKershaw @ClaudiaAuroraPT @mercedespeon @asere @changinghorses plus many more made it superb!” (Coral Rose tweeting about Claudia Aurora performance at Musicport Festival, UK)
“Yesterdays highights for me @MusicportFest @mercedespeon @claudiaauroraPT legendary @THEAndyKershaw x @changinghorses and ASERE!!” (Coral Rose tweeting about Claudia Aurora performance at Musicport Festival, UK)
“Fantastic set by @ClaudiaAuroraPT at #musicport festival – CDs sold out too!” (Songlines tweeting about Claudia Aurora performance at Musicport Festival, UK)
“Be enchanted by the beautiful and talented @ClaudiaAuroraPT performing @MusicportFest this weekend. Muchas gracias guapa!” (Coral Rose tweeting about Claudia Aurora performance at Musicport Festival, UK)
“Haunting Portuguese fado from this rising star of the scene here performing heartbreakingly poignant material from her widely acclaimed 2011 album ‘Silêncio’” (Time Out)
“I love this album by Claudia Aurora. Exquisitely simple and uniquely traditional – unadorned music at its best. Silêncio is mood music personified, embracing the classical fado themes of loss and yearning. Her deeply expressive voice is a joy to listen to.” (Liz MacIntosh, Festival Previews)
“She has a beautiful voice and her album is excellent” (Elizabeth MacIntosh, Festival Previews)
“Spine-tingling” (Alex Denney, NME)
“A finely judged and superbly executed programme” (Gordon Turner, Norwich)
“She is really amazing – one of my highlights of the year” (Viktor Wynd, The Last Tuesday Society)
“Drenched in emotion and drama” (Lucy Duran, BBC Radio 3)
“Boy, she has a voice, as elementally strong as the tides of which she sings, and as imbued with ability to induce calm and awe.” (Venue Magazine)
“Porto-born singer/songwriter Claudia Aurora enraptures with the spine-tingling emotion of her powerful, mournful Fado torch songs. Her extraordinary voice, drenched in a sadness that courses through the audience, gives the soaring sound of Portugal unique dramatic expression.” (St. George’s Bristol)
