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.

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), ...

The Portuguese word fado means fate. Fado songs have a reputation for being mournful and full of tragic stories about destiny -- a kind of Portuguese folk music that many people liken to American ...

The Portuguese genre Fado—which translates to “fate” or “destiny”—is analogous to (in American terms) a combination of folk-blues and cabaret song ...

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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.

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 ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s nearing midnight in Alfama, Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhood, when a lady in black steps into a taverna. The bar staff scurry to turn ...

Carminho, the Portuguese fado singer and 2023 Latin Grammy nominee who was featured in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar-winning film ‘Poor Things,’ said her recent limited U.S. tour was nothing short of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Acclaimed Portuguese-Canadian playwright Elaine Ávila's play, FADO, is a tale of ...