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Ana Moura (born in 1980, in Santarém, Portugal) is a Portuguese fado singer.

Like young people everywhere, she soon developed an appreciation for other styles of music. The lure of singing fado, however, never waned. In her late teens, while sing pop and rock music with a local band, Ana always included at least one fado in each performance. Today, the singer has become a leading exponent of this poetic, deeply expressive idiom which personifies the Portuguese psyche as it explores such universal themes as lost love, separation, and longing. As Ana explained: "It's very special because it's all about emotions and feelings. It needs no translation."

• In 2005, Ana Moura's album Aconteceu was nominated for the Dutch Edison Award in the category World International. Edison Awards is the oldest and most prestigious Dutch Music Prize presented since 1960.
• In 2005, the performance of Ana Moura in Carnegie Hall, New York sold out and was a big success.
• In 2005, Ana appeared on Dutch Television on monday 21 March in the show of Barend en Van Dorp.

Ana Moura (1979) is the youngest fadista who is nominated for a Dutch Edison Award. At such an age that's quite an achievement, but she also sold out the big hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam! She currently is traveling the world and audiences receive her performances with great enthusiasm and admiration. Ana Moura is truly gifted with her voice, a contralto, which is color full and deep at the same time. Her performances are pure Fado, without any drama or exaggeration. Doors have opened worldwide for her with her genuine though simple interpretation of the Fado. Everybody falls in live with her voice in contradiction to the many sopranos in the scene…

Ana was born in Santarem out of Portugese-Angolese parents. Santarem is the bustling capital of the Ribatejo province in the centre of Portugal's heartland on the Tejo River northeast of Lisbon. She grows up in Cercevelhos, a village close to Lisbon, in a music inspired family. At first Ana is fascinated with all kinds of music styles, Ana Moura eventually finds her soul in Fado. Her career starts in the famous Fado house of Lisbon "Senor do Vinho', where she is discovered by owner Maria da Fe. With the famous Fado producer Jorge Fernando she records her first ("Guarda-me a vida na mão") and second album ("Aconteceu"). Since then her star is rising…

• Aconteceu (2005)
• Guarda-me a vida na mão (2003)

From the press:

     "She is blessed with a warm, a little husky contralto and a instinctive musicality"(Parool, februrary 2005)

     ...she's been digging into her country's traditional songs and polishing them into diamonds." (Time out New York, 2005)

     "the listener will be charmed by this superb young fadista" (Billboard Feb 2005)

     "....her voice suits the genre incredibly well.....you immediately fall in love with her when she sings the heartbreaking lines...'I have waited for you for hours/fragile shadow looking at the pier/however, sadder than waiting/is knowing that you will no longer return'." ( NY press, 2005)