The voice. That's the first thing to notice about Portuguese fado, the dramatic, tear-stained music born many generations ago - perhaps in the 1820s, but some claim earlier - on the crowded streets of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Listening to Portuguese fado singer Mariza, it's really hard not to be taken away by her passionate singing, charismatic stage presence, and sly sass. Yet, beneath her almost fragile and gentle ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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