Authentic and poetic, Rita Vian steers away from musical clichés as she focuses on the profoundly melancholic Portuguese singing style of fado. Her first single, the understated “Diágonas”, dropped in 2019 but since then her tunes have become increasingly more driven by electronic beats. The artist has worked with producer Branko—his remix of her “Sereia” single was a 2020 highlight—and her 2023 debut album SENSOREAL, a 12-track journey into fado, electronics and poetry, has cemented her place as one of her nation’s most inventive contemporary talents.