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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portuguese fado singers Marisa and Carlos do Carmo perform at the show of the New 7 Wonders in Lisbon's Luz stadium By Catarina ...

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 ...

Ana Moura says she didn't decide to become a fadista, a singer of the fervent, longing-filled Portuguese music called fado, or fate. "Fado chose me," says the lush-voiced Portuguese singer, who brings ...

Mariza, the reigning queen of Portuguese fado music, appears Saturday, February 21, at 8 pm at UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs, co-sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation of ...

It was Portuguese star Mariza’s destiny to become a fado singer – drawing on deep feelings of life to tell stories in song at WOMADelaide. Portuguese fado singer Mariza, who will perform at ...

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.