It's said that the fascist dictatorship that dominated Portugal for nearly half a century was bolstered by the three Fs - football, Fatima and fado. Football was best exemplified by the all-conquering ...

Sentidos, the new CD by 27-year-old Portuguese singer Ana Laíns, features her pure and powerful voice taking a contemporary approach to Fado. The backings include the standard Guitarra Portuguesa, but ...

Fado is a type of traditional Portuguese singing and is making a return to the stage at Vancouver's Firehall Arts Centre. Elaine Ávila, a Portuguese-Canadian playwright, talks about the inspiration ...

It was a chance of a lifetime for music afficionadoes in the city to hear Sonia Shirsat, the country’s best Fado artiste sing at the Alliance Francaise recently. Well, if Fado is a closed book to many ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and bohemia. With a new state-of-the-art exhibition celebrating fado’s greatest ...

Ana Moura sits in a restaurant in downtown Lisbon explaining how she was always destined to be a fado singer, she just hadn't always realised it. "We have this saying in Portugal: you have to be born ...