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.

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 ...

PROVIDENCE – The list of nominations for the 12th annual International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA) is out. The 2024 nominees were revealed March 3 in a web stream. “2024 IPMA showcases a diverse ...

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Fado is the emotionally loaded music of Portugal. By Billboard Staff Fado is the emotionally loaded music of Portugal. Lyrically and musically, this traditional genre is the poetry of longing, of ...

It’s a pleasure to see new works that centre immigration stories and homecoming stories on Vancouver stages, and playwright Elaine Ávila, who’s of Azorean Portuguese descent, shares her cultural ...

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.

That's the first thing to notice about Portuguese fado, the dramatic, tear-stained music born many generations ago - perhaps in the 1820s, but some claim earlier - on the crowded streets of Lisbon's ...