Fado singer Carminho enters 2024 planning a new international tour, thinking about a new album, and reaping the rewards of appearing in Yorgos Lanthimos’ film “Poor Things,” which has received ...

The Portuguese singer opens up about collaborating with Rosalía, honoring fado traditions, and redefining global music ...

Former President Barack Obama has been listening to fado this summer. He recently revealed his list of top summer picks, which includes Portuguese fado singer Carminho and superstars like Billie ...

"Poor Things" is a movie full of striking moments, but one of the most memorable is a musical performance from the singularly named Portuguese singer Carminho. As part of the film's Oscar-nominated ...

Don’t speak to me only of love, But talk to me about fado. In Portugal, such an injuction in the middle of a love song is as standard as June & moon rhymes in the U.S. Fado (pronounced fah-doo), ...

After being pivotal in the recent Fado revival (the blues-like genre native to Lisbon) with her honest and impassioned interpretation, this Mozambique-born songstress dares to take the genre into a ...

Milinković, a multiple award-winning and internationally recognized Sarajevo singer-songwriter, first heard fado performed by the “queen” of the genre, Amália Rodrigues, back in 2008. She says: I like ...

What started as a particularly chilly October night ended as a night filled with magic, nostalgia and ‘saudade.’ On Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Portuguese New Fado superstar Mariza graced UMass Amherst’s ...

It happened in an instant. Mariza, one of the leading contemporary singers of the gloriously melancholic Portuguese music known as fado, has a powerful voice that could knock the Earth off its axis.

What fado isn’t, however, is “folk” music. It wasn’t developed in the countryside, but rather in the port city of Lisbon. “Fado was born by the sea,” said Mariza, the Portuguese-Mozambican singer with ...