This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). 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 ...

A tribute concert for legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues was held at New York's Carnegie Hall. The show featured fado singers Cristina Branco, Raquel Tavares, and Ricardo Ribeiro with the ...

A new program is offering traditional Portuguese fado guitar lessons with world-famous performer Ricardo Parreira. Here's how ...

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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.