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 ...

Don’t speak to me only of love, But talk to me about fado. In Portugal, such an injuction in the middle of a love song is as standard as June & moon rhymes in the U.S. Fado (pronounced fah-doo), ...

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 ...

Vieira has released several albums, among them “Sem Ti” (Without You), “Despi A Alma” (roughly translated as Bare Soul), ...

The unique sound of Fado is part of Lisbon’s DNA, so embedded in society that it is included on UNESCO’s list of World Intangible Cultural Heritage. Born in the streets, houses and on the riverside of ...

Fado singer Carminho enters 2024 planning a new international tour, thinking about a new album, and reaping the rewards of appearing in Yorgos Lanthimos’ film “Poor Things,” which has received ...

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 ...

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