The singer from Lisbon showed off her powerful vocals, proving that microphones and amplification to be unnecessary luxuries.

With her mahogany-rich voice, impassioned performances and striking looks, the Portuguese fado singer Mariza has, in a few short years, become a reigning diva on the world music scene. She has blown ...

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.

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 ...

Seen from an American perspective, the renewal of Portuguese fado — a trend that has surged in the last 10 to 15 years — has brought a glamorous addition to world-music programming. Seductive stars ...

The most widely recognized music of Portugal, fado is a passionate, soul-stirring music with soaring vocals and dramatic tales of love, loss and redemption. Legendary fadista Amália Rodrigues ...

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up As the first woman to professionally take up the ...

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.

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 ...

As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here’s one of my favorite European memories — a reminder of the fun that ...