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.

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.

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.

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Fado is the music of Portugal, a haunting, emotional style intimately bound up with that tiny country's history and seagoing soul. Yet on her latest recording, Mariza, fado's greatest contemporary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Known as the new face of traditional Portuguese Fado music, world music singer Mariza will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at Purdue Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The concert ...