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Teresa Salgueiro was 17 when her melancholy voice wafted from one of Lisbon's fado bars and bewitched a group of musicians outside in the street.
The group included Rodrigo Leao and Pedro Ayres Magalhaes who were trying to assemble a band that would reestablish traditional Portuguese music. They invited Salgueiro to audition.
That was 10 years ago, and the meeting has become musical legend in Portugal. Now she casts the same spell on audiences across the world-even when they don't understand a word she is singing.
"Her voice was like a gift from nature," says Magalhaes, the guitaristsongwriter who founded Portugal's biggest musical success story this decade, Madredeus.