Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Lisbon is the city of fado,” says Portuguese singer Carminho. “You have to experience it when you're there.” Carminho, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fado singer Carminho enters 2024 planning a new international tour, thinking about a new album, and reaping the rewards of ...

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.

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 off the lights, leaving only the flickering tapers of candles to ...

Sonia Shirsat, a household name in Goa, has put the state on the world map with her renditions of Fado, the Portuguese semi-classical music form. Sonia now is gearing up to wow Mumbaikars with her ...

With her smoky voice and her high-fashion look, the self-proclaimed “punk of fado” found stardom by shaking up a venerable Portuguese genre. By Alex Williams Mísia, an acclaimed singer who helped ...

Fado singer Carminho enters 2024 planning a new international tour, thinking about a new album, and reaping the rewards of unforeseen experiences, such as appearing in Yorgos Lanthimos’ film “Poor ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and bohemia. With a new state-of-the-art exhibition celebrating fado’s greatest ...