With her smoky voice and her high-fashion look, the self-proclaimed “punk of fado” found stardom by shaking up a venerable Portuguese genre. By Alex Williams Mísia, an acclaimed singer who helped ...

Fado is more than a style of music. In the 1820s, it emerged as a form of storytelling in Portuguese taverns packed with sailors, bohemians, and courtesans. Sung by, and for, working-class people, the ...

The Portuguese genre Fado—which translates to “fate” or “destiny”—is analogous to (in American terms) a combination of folk-blues and cabaret song ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and bohemia. With a new state-of-the-art exhibition celebrating fado’s greatest ...

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.

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 ...

“Lisbon is the city of fado,” says Portuguese singer Carminho. “You have to experience it when you're there.” Carminho, who recently collaborated with Rosalia on the song “Memória” and released her ...