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.

Having made gorgeous, erotic, bluntly titled performance films about flamenco (1995’s “Flamenco”) and tango (1998’s “Tango”), Spain’s Carlos Saura aims his gaze at Portuguese fado singing. Like those ...

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 ...

LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese singer Carlos do Carmo, one of the country's most beloved artists who was known as the "Sinatra" of the soulful, melancholic fado music, died on Friday at the age of 81.

Fado is a style of Portuguese music that is impossible to define. The only way to even begin to understand fado is to hear it. So Carlos Saura doesn’t try to define it. In his documentary “Fados,” ...

I’m writing this from Lisbon, Portugal, where my wife and I have been visiting her daughter, who lives here part of the year. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about all of you back home dealing ...

PROVINCETOWN — Liliana de Sousa remembers listening to the distinctly melancholy sounds of her sister-in-law singing fado to her brother when they were children living in the small town of Olhão in ...

She sweeps in with regal dignity, the very image of a diva, her sumptuous black dress gently caressing the stage floor, her short, light blond hair and slim figure making an arresting sight. Mariza, ...

International Fado sensation Mariza will visit Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts as part of her North American tour on Sunday, Oct. 23, in support of her new album “Mundo” ...

LISBON, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Portuguese singer Carlos do Carmo, one of the country's most beloved artists who was known as the "Sinatra" of the soulful, melancholic fado music, died on Friday at the age ...