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The fact that the Split singer Jelena Radan tackled the fado could have seemed like another short-lived attempt. Choosing the time for the Zagreb concert only two weeks after the Mission's performance at the Croatian National Theater, so it could have been made a suicidal move. However, the result on the concert album "Search for Fado" was above expectations, and a similar situation prevailed at the concert of Jelena Radan held at the Factory on December 9.
Jelena Radan is undoubtedly the last link in a series of capable domestic singing prima donnas, audibly superior to the surrounding singing hemisphere from the stage. With a natural stage performance, somewhat sympathetic in small awkwardness during conferences with the audience, Radanova presented her vision of fado very honestly and solidly, while avoiding the traps of over-ambitious projects that carry the weight of excessive expectations. Perhaps the key is in the similar emotional "fiery" or elegiac nature of the Portuguese and Dalmatian coasts, so the emotional code of the links between the seemingly distant genres of fado and "Dalmatian writing" is close, but the key to Radanova's success seems to be in understanding the matter labor. No less important, she expressed the authentic "feeling for feeling" of fado through songs sung in a foreign language, but she was more understandable than most local "singers" of soul, funky, jazz and other modern genres. "H. Horvat
