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 ...

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 ...

Ramana Vieira of Vacaville, an internationally known singer of fado, a kind of Portuguese folk song, usually melancholic and nostalgic, calls the music “a window into the soul” of Portuguese people.

An American at the forefront of the fado, a type of melancholy Portuguese folk music, Ramana Vieira says her show Friday at Journey Downtown in Vacaville will be an example of “fado fusion.” The ...

Milinković, a multiple award-winning and internationally recognized Sarajevo singer-songwriter, first heard fado performed by the “queen” of the genre, Amália Rodrigues, back in 2008. She says: I like ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Known as the new face of traditional Portuguese Fado music, world music singer Mariza will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at Purdue Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The concert ...

Portuguese fado star Mariza was presented with Berklee’s Master of Mediterranean Music Award by Javier Limón, Latin Grammy-winning artist and executive director of Berklee’s Mediterranean Music ...

PROVIDENCE – It may be hard to believe but a 15-year-old took home this year’s Song of the Year trophy at the International Portuguese Music Awards, while two ...

A few years ago I arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, while it was still dark. At 6:30 a.m., just as the escalator pushed me up onto the sidewalk, the sun and the city were coming into their own. Everything ...