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.

Few performers predominate a genre as Amália Rodrigues has with fado, from her rise in the 1930s and even beyond her death in 1999. Now, today’s leading ambassador of the mournful Portuguese genre, ...

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 ...

Portuguese Fado singer Katia Guerreiro will perform at UMass Lowell on March 22. The concert will benefit the university's Saab Center for Portuguese Studies and other programs. Guerreiro has ...

Her scene lasts only a few minutes, but it is as memorable as it is relevant for the narrative of Poor Things. Portuguese fado singer and songwriter Carminho plays “O Quarto (Fado Menor)” in the Oscar ...

Portuguese singer Mariza is coming to Houston for a one-night-only performance on Nov. 12. She is widely regarded as the new face of fado, a mournful Portuguese version of the blues. Mariza will ...

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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 ...