In Pura Vida, Mísia returns to singing Fado, which is neither sad nor happy, as she likes to say. It is Destiny. She sings once more about feelings and emotions, equally filled with greatness and misery. With the Fados chosen for Pura Vida, it is Mísia’s intention to sing using the vocabulary and the grammar of emotions: la Ausencia (Absence), el Cuerpo (the Body), el Destino (Destiny), os Homens (Men) and las Ruas (the Streets), el Tiempo (Time) and la Saudade (Portuguese melancholy and longing), everything or almost nothing at all. Life at it’s purest. “And other letters of the alphabet” she says. All this is done by falling back on classical Fado music, with contemporary arrangements and unpublished poems, most of them written for her voice.