The music, traditionally performed in an intimate setting known as a "fado house," is guitar-based, and built around classical guitar and the notoriously difficult 12-string Portuguese guitar.

Fado is the music of Portugal, a haunting, emotional style intimately bound up with that tiny country's history and seagoing soul. Yet on her latest recording, Mariza, fado's greatest contemporary ...

ZURICH (Reuters Life!) - Portuguese fado singer Mariza treated a sold-out Zurich audience to a show pushing the boundaries of her genre. The willowy singer with bleached blonde hair is at the vanguard ...

FALL RIVER – Fado star Gisela João says you can listen to her heart sing as she surrenders to the words during her performances. “That’s how I feel about fado ...

Katia Guerreiro celebrates 25 years at the summit of Portuguese Fado with a concert to benefit the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies at UMass Lowell. A singer with deep roots in Portugal’s Azores ...

The NPR Tiny Desk Concert by Portuguese fado singer Carminho arrived today on YouTube. The video begins with “O Quarto (fado Pagem),” the song she sang in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar-winning film ‘Poor ...

A few years ago I arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, while it was still dark. At 6:30 a.m., just as the escalator pushed me up onto the sidewalk, the sun and the city were coming into their own. Everything ...

It happened in an instant. Mariza, one of the leading contemporary singers of the gloriously melancholic Portuguese music known as fado, has a powerful voice that could knock the Earth off its axis.

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Fados, the bittersweet songs of Portugal, are like rare vintage wines: they don’t travel well. They are best savored in the small lantern-lit taverns tucked away in the cobblestone alleys of old ...

PROVIDENCE – It may be hard to believe but a 15-year-old took home this year’s Song of the Year trophy at the International Portuguese Music Awards, while two ...