Still On the Road to Freedom

One of the world's most acclaimed lyric singers, Barbara Hendricks returns to Portugal with her latest show Still On the Road to Freedom.

Hendricks made her debut in 1974 at the San Francisco Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival, establishing since then an international career of reference that made her one of the most admired artists in the musical landscape.

Throughout her career, she has added jazz to her vast classical repertoire, making her jazz debut at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1994, under the impulse of Claude Nobs. Since then, she has explored the legacy of the great names of twentieth-century jazz, from Duke Ellington to Billie Holiday, deepening the roots of the genre in blues. This path continues in Still On the Road to Freedom, a show that crosses songs and soundscapes with a strong expressive sense and its own identity.

In blues, her voice of great timbral richness reveals an enveloping dimension. Also recognised for her activism in defence of human rights, Barbara Hendricks summons in this repertoire the emotional force of music and the legacy of figures such as Martin Luther King, at a time when questions of freedom, justice and solidarity remain central.

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