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 ...

Rajan Datar delves into the chequered history of Portuguese fado with expert guests Ellen Gray, Rui Vieira Nery and Simon Broughton. Show more In its 200-year lifetime the Portuguese song known as ...

I was recently on a plane en route from Praia, Cape Verde to Lisbon and was sitting next to a Cape Verdean who’ve I’ve known for many years. He was the tour manager of the late Cesaria Evora, who ...

NEW BEDFORD – Award-winning Portuguese fado singers Hélder Moutinho and Maria Emília will join forces for two concerts in Massachusetts next month. On June 2, they’ll take the stage at 7:30 p.m. at ...

Carlos do Carmo grew up in Lisbon, Portugal and is the son of Lucília do Carmo, one of the great singers of the golden age of fado, which began in the late 1920s. His mother's club in Lisbon became a ...

LISBON (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 of 81.