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 ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Portuguese fado singer Gisela João has been generating white-hot press for her ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Portuguese fado singer Gisela João has been generating white-hot press for her ...

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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.

Singer Mariza has been the driving force in revitalizing the lamenting Portuguese musical genre fado, sometimes likened to the blues, a revival sparked by release of her first studio album in 2001.

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), ...