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 ...

Vieira has released several albums, among them “Sem Ti” (Without You), “Despi A Alma” (roughly translated as Bare Soul), ...

While Marta Pereira da Costa was a protégé of Carlos Gonçalves, an accompanist of legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues, she didn’t see a clear path forward as a professional musician. Smitten with ...

FALL RIVER – A musical pioneer, Marta Pereira da Costa said she has found her voice in the Portuguese guitar. The first woman to professionally play the Portuguese guitar in fado, the Lisbon native ...

The music of a country is one of the keys to its culture; Argentina has the tango, Spain has flamenco, and Portugal has fado. It's a musical form that draws on many different historical and cultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A friend of mine insists that you have to be Portuguese to understand fado. In one sense she's right—fado is intimately associated with poetry, and you pretty much have to be a native speaker to grasp ...

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 ...