Listening to Portuguese fado singer Mariza, it's really hard not to be taken away by her passionate singing, charismatic stage presence, and sly sass. Yet, beneath her almost fragile and gentle ...

That's the first thing to notice about Portuguese fado, the dramatic, tear-stained music born many generations ago - perhaps in the 1820s, but some claim earlier - on the crowded streets of Lisbon's ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With her mahogany-rich voice, impassioned performances and striking looks, the Portuguese fado singer Mariza has, in a few short years, become a reigning ...

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 ...

Singer Mariza has been the driving force in revitalizing the lamenting Portuguese musical genre fado, sometimes likened to the blues, a revival sparked by release of her first studio album in 2001.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet Sonia Shirsat: The Ambassador of Goan music to the world. Fado is a form of traditional Portuguese music dating back before ...

Portugal has two healthy cultural obsessions: soccer and the music called fado, the latter of which has attracted fans and practitioners from Lisbon to Brisbane and beyond. Its latest star, fadista ...

Fado is Portugal’s traditional folk music, Alfredo Gago da Câmara is one of its finest players. A musician, poet, teacher, author and composer, he’s travelled the world entertaining. Tomorrow night, ...

Fado em Si Bemol formed in 2003. It started out as a project between good friends Paulo Gonçalves, Miguel Silva and Pedro Matos to explore the nontraditional sounds of the music throughout the world ...

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.