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.

I’m writing this from Lisbon, Portugal, where my wife and I have been visiting her daughter, who lives here part of the year. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about all of you back home dealing ...

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

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), ...

FALL RIVER – Fado star Gisela João says you can listen to her heart sing as she surrenders to the words during her performances. “That’s how I feel about fado ...

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 ...

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 ...

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LOWELL — Two award-winning vocalists in the Portuguese music genre fado, singer-songwriter Helder Moutinho and singer Maria Emília, will join forces for “The Sounds of Portugal,” a one-night-only ...