Mariza, who is of Portuguese and Mozambican descent, isn't only interested in mining the past and evoking the spirit of the late Amália Rodrigues who's considered the greatest fadista of all time.

If you go to Lisbon, you go listen to Portuguese fado, the city’s music about "fate." Follow the signs in the old neighborhoods, and you can’t miss the restaurants advertising live music with dinner.

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.

The NPR Tiny Desk Concert by Portuguese fado singer Carminho arrived today on YouTube. The video begins with “O Quarto (fado Pagem),” the song she sang in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar-winning film ‘Poor ...

Fado, which means “fate” or “destiny” in Portuguese, originated in the working-class neighborhoods of Lisbon in the early 19th century. It reflects the yearnings, sorrows, and joys of the Portuguese ...

A new program is offering traditional Portuguese fado guitar lessons with world-famous performer Ricardo Parreira. Here's how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Date and time: Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7 p.m. Tickets: Concert only: $30; Concert and pre-show reception with the artists at the Atrium of the Health & Social Sciences Building: $100 Tickets can ...

While Marta Pereira da Costa was a protégé of Carlos Gonçalves, an accompanist of legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues, she didn’t see a clear path forward as a professional musician. Smitten with ...