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 ...

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 ...

Madonna loved the city's secret music spots so much she moved there. Here's our guide to them At spots like the funky warehouse B.Leza and the roomier, multilevel Lux Frágil, partiers are sometimes ...

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 ...

I’m writing this from Lisbon, Portugal, where my wife and I have been visiting her daughter, who lives here part of the year. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about all of you back home dealing ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With her mahogany-rich voice, impassioned performances and striking looks, the Portuguese fado singer Mariza has, in a few short years, become a reigning ...

It's after dark in Lisbon's ramshackle Alfama neighborhood. Old-timers gather in restaurants, which serve little more than grilled sardines, to hear and sing Portugal's mournful fado ... a traditional ...

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.

If you go to Lisbon, you go listen to Portuguese fado, the city’s music about “fate.” Follow the signs in the old neighborhoods, and you can’t miss the restaurants advertising live music with dinner.

It was Portuguese star Mariza’s destiny to become a fado singer – drawing on deep feelings of life to tell stories in song at WOMADelaide. Portuguese fado singer Mariza, who will perform at ...