In recent years, the melancholic Portuguese folk music known as fado has gotten a lot of play around the world. Many of the singers have stylized their songs to suit the tastes of an international ...

Meet Sonia Shirsat: The Ambassador of Goan music to the world. Fado is a form of traditional Portuguese music dating back before the 19th century. It is arguably the oldest urban folk music in the ...

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), ...

When Portuguese girls lie in bed at night dreaming of the spotlight, they don’t yearn to become Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga. They want to be Amalia Rodrigues. Traveling, in great part, is the process of ...

Carlos do Carmo grew up in Lisbon, Portugal and is the son of Lucília do Carmo, one of the great singers of the golden age of fado, which began in the late 1920s. His mother's club in Lisbon became a ...