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.

The vocalist, coming to Jones Hall on Nov. 12, is at the forefront of a new generation that is reviving the centuries-old ...

Beautiful Portugal is one of the oldest countries in Europe and had quite the empire at one point in history. Its borders ...

With her mahogany-rich voice, impassioned performances and striking looks, the Portuguese fado singer Mariza has, in a few short years, become a reigning diva on the world music scene. She has blown ...

Round Top Film Festival, Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Rodney Crowell, Thomas Csorba, Julius Rodriguez and 'Angels in America ...

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.

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up As the first woman to professionally take up the ...

Fado is a school of music and singing born of African and Brazilian roots, first flourishing in the port towns and poor, working-class neighborhoods of 19th-century Lisbon, Portugal. Like American ...

The musical threads of the Portuguese-speaking world stretch from Europe to South America and even to Africa. Betto Arcos, host of Global Village on KPFK in Los Angeles, gives Guy Raz a musical tour ...