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.
ZURICH (Reuters Life!) - Portuguese fado singer Mariza treated a sold-out Zurich audience to a show pushing the boundaries of her genre. The willowy singer with bleached blonde hair is at the vanguard ...
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.
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Portuguese fado singer Gisela João has been generating white-hot press for her ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Portuguese fado singer Gisela João has been generating white-hot press for her ...
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 Portuguese people.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Known as the new face of traditional Portuguese Fado music, world music singer Mariza will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at Purdue Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The concert ...
Media contacts: Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944 or [email protected] and Christine Gillette, 978-934-2209 or [email protected] LOWELL, Mass. – Two of the brightest voices in Portuguese fado, ...
As the first woman to professionally take up the Portuguese guitar, Lisbon’s Marta Pereira da Costa can fairly be described as a musical pioneer who has opened up new territory for female musicians.
The International Portuguese Music Awards will see some big names from the Portuguese-speaking world take the stage at PPAC ...