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It is a series of performances of fado, the Portuguese musical form that rose from the streets in the 19th century. The highly dramatic style of the music, which is full of longing and torrid ...
Portuguese fado singer Mariza treated a sold-out Zurich audience to a show pushing the boundaries of her genre.
With her mahogany-rich voice, impassioned performances and striking looks, the Portuguese fado singer Mariza has, in a few short years, become a reigning diva on the world music scene. She has ...
Fado is a Portuguese style of music that weds sumptuously plaintive melodies to poetic lyrics about love, loss, and the vicissitudes of fate.
Ramana Vieira of Vacaville, an internationally known singer of fado, a kind of Portuguese folk song, usually melancholic and nostalgic, calls the music “a window into the soul” of Portu… ...
You may not speak any Portuguese or know the first thing about fado music, but that shouldn't stop you from appreciating Ana Moura's recording Leva-Me Aos Fados.
Singer Mariza continues to push the boundaries of fado music, incorporating sounds from her family's African roots in the new album "Mundo," which she'll showcase at SFJazz Oct. 27-30.
The musical threads of the Portuguese-speaking world stretch from Europe to South America and even to Africa. Betto Arcos, host of Global Village on KPFK in Los Angeles, gives Guy Raz a musical ...
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