The singer from Lisbon showed off her powerful vocals, proving that microphones and amplification to be unnecessary luxuries.

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.

I’m writing this from Lisbon, Portugal, where my wife and I have been visiting her daughter, who lives here part of the year. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about all of you back home dealing ...

International Fado sensation Mariza will visit Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts as part of her North American tour on Sunday, Oct. 23, in support of her new album “Mundo” ...

Portuguese singer Carlos do Carmo, one of the country's most beloved artists who was known as the "Sinatra" of the soulful, melancholic fado music, died on Friday at the age of 81.

PROVINCETOWN — Liliana de Sousa remembers listening to the distinctly melancholy sounds of her sister-in-law singing fado to her brother when they were children living in the small town of Olhão in ...

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 ...

Ramana Vieira of Vacaville, an internationally known singer of fado, a kind of Portuguese folk song, usually melancholic and nostalgic, calls the music “a window into the soul” of Portuguese people.

Date and time: Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7 p.m. Tickets: Concert only: $30; Concert and pre-show reception with the artists at the Atrium of the Health & Social Sciences Building: $100 Tickets can ...

Piri-piri chicken from Fado Portuguese Kitchen & Bar, a new Southeast Portland restaurant. (Courtesy of Fado) , a new Portuguese restaurant and bar, is now open inside the former Dingos space at 4612 ...

LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese singer Carlos do Carmo, one of the country's most beloved artists who was known as the "Sinatra" of the soulful, melancholic fado music, died on Friday at the age of 81.