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 ...

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 ...

Mariza, who is of Portuguese and Mozambican descent, isn't only interested in mining the past and evoking the spirit of the late Amália Rodrigues who's considered the greatest fadista of all time.

Charismatic Mariza has sparked a stylish revival of Portugal’s national music back home, and now gives it a global twist After Portuguese fado star Mariza made her debut album independently, she went ...

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 ...

LISBON, Portugal -- Amalia Rodrigues, the Portuguese singer whose passionate performances of the country's brooding "fado" music took her from Lisbon taverns to worldwide fame, died yesterday. She was ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Town Hall has announced Portuguese singer Mariza in a special streaming ...

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 ...

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 ...

I myself am fascinated by Portugal in many ways. My interest in fado, a traditional Portuguese music genre began with my column “Origin of Portuguese And Korean Cultural Contact” on Dec. 23, 1992 in ...