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 ...

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 ...

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.

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An American at the forefront of the fado, a type of melancholy Portuguese folk music, Ramana Vieira says her show Friday at Journey Downtown in Vacaville will be an example of “fado fusion.” The ...

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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 ...

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), ...