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 ...

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.

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s nearing midnight in Alfama, Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhood, when a lady in black steps into a taverna. The bar staff scurry to turn ...

Vacaville-based singer and pianist Ramana Vieira specializes in fado, the traditional Portuguese folk music likened to American blues, but lately she and her backing quartet expanded their song list ...

Vacaville’s own fado chanteuse, Ramana Vieira will add Portguese spice to a holiday-themed performance Thursday night in the Vacaville Museum. While fado (literally “fate” in Portuguese) will be ...

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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 ...

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 ...