Fado is a school of music and singing born of African and Brazilian roots, first flourishing in the port towns and poor, working-class neighborhoods of 19th-century Lisbon, Portugal. Like American ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In Portuguese popular music, a fado is a plaintive song, a sort of Iberian blues that sprang up in the bars and brothels that ...

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 taken on flamenco (“Sevillanas”) and the tango (“Tango”), Carlos Saura will attack a third great melancholy music style, directing “Fados,” a celebration of Portugal’s classic, lamenting ...

Marta Pereira da Costa is the world's first and only female professional Portuguese guitarist of fado music, the soulful sound of Portugal recently acknowledged by UNESCO as part of the World's ...

That's the first thing to notice about Portuguese fado, the dramatic, tear-stained music born many generations ago - perhaps in the 1820s, but some claim earlier - on the crowded streets of Lisbon's ...