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 ...

Fado da Vida features ten tracks that combine fado classics by Amadeu da Vale and Amália Rodrigues (known as the Rainha do Fado, or “Queen of Fado,” Rodrigues helped popularize the style worldwide in ...

Having breathed new life into fado, the traditional Portuguese 'blues', singer Mariza is poised to go global. Sue Steward meets her With its intense poetry and lilting rhythms, fado is the perfect ...

For her still-in-the-works album, Ramana Vieira, a Vacaville resident and a convincing practitioner of fado, a type of melancholy Portuguese folk music, said the theme of the recording centers on her ...

Amalia Rodrigues, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest singer, died Wednesday at age 79. Known for a haunting bluesy music called fado–fate in English–Rodrigues favored lyrics about longing, ...

On her latest album, 'Os Fados do Fado' South African-born, Azores Islands raised Katia Guerreiro sings Fado classics that are benchmarks of the genre, accompanied by a band augmented by bluesy ...

Twelve-year-old Samhaira Furtado’s powerful rich voice intoned the lyrics of a classic Portuguese fado, Cancao do Mar or song of the sea, as she rehearsed before the elimination round of a fado ...

When Cristina Branco was growing up in the town of Almeirim in Portugal's Ribatejo region in the 1980s, she had little interest in fado, the music that dominated the country's culture for most of the ...

Thirty days hath November and for a couple of them, the Vacaville Museum — a normally staid institution given to informative and enlightening exhibits about Solano County history — will become a music ...