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), ...

LISBON (Reuters) - 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.

Few performers predominate a genre as Amália Rodrigues has with fado, from her rise in the 1930s and even beyond her death in 1999. Now, today’s leading ambassador of the mournful Portuguese genre, ...

The vocalist, coming to Jones Hall on Nov. 12, is at the forefront of a new generation that is reviving the centuries-old ...

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 concert next ...

“The Fado” is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending nets and contemplating a roiling black Atlantic. It has survived to the ...

Having taken on flamenco (“Sevillanas”) and the tango (“Tango”), Carlos Saura will attack a third great melancholy music style, directing “Fados,” a celebration of Portugal’s classic, lamenting ...

Estreou-se com o single ‘Ficamos Por Aqui’ em 2021, e acrescentou-lhe o EP “Rosário” em 2022, valendo-lhe um Capitólo esgotado no concerto de apresentação. Mescla o fado de Coimbra com sonoridades pop ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In Portuguese popular music, a fado is a plaintive song, a sort of Iberian blues that sprang up in the bars and brothels that ...

Katia Guerreiro celebrates 25 years at the summit of Portuguese Fado with a concert to benefit the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies at UMass Lowell. A singer with deep roots in Portugal’s Azores ...

Luanda, 17 out 2025 (Lusa) – Artistas angolanos e portugueses celebraram, em Luanda, os 50 anos de independência de Angola ao som do fado, um estilo musical português, que já começa a agradar a alguns ...