Catarina Rocha
Catarina Rocha, is the new revelation of Fado. If “LUZ” (produced by Diogo Clemente) had already been considered one of the best albums released in 2017, now, Catarina Rocha brings more “LIFE” to fado! After hits like “Novo mar” and…
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Cristina Branco
Cristina Branco is an indefatigable ambassador of Portuguese culture around the world. Over the last two decades, she has established herself as one of the most prolific singers today, producing a remarkable discography. Traditional Portuguese music is her main aesthetic…
Mísia
Mísia, artistic name of Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar born in Porto on June 18, 1955, is a Portuguese singer, considered one of the most important fado singers today. Until her late teens, Mísia lived in her hometown, occasionally singing…
Hermínia Silva
Hermínia Silva was born at the São José Hospital in Lisbon, on October 23, 1907, to an unknown father and Josefina Augusta, a native of Samora Correia and widow of Manuel Joaquim Lopes Ramos for 5 years. She was baptized…
Gisela João
One of the voices of fado, Gisela João is an important interpreter of current Portuguese music, recognized with the Blitz, Time Out, Expresso awards and the Golden Globe for Best National Performer. Gisela’s presence on national and international stages, as…
Ricardo Ribeiro
Ricardo Alexandre Paulo Ribeiro was born on August 19, 1981, in Lisbon. He was raised in Bairro da Ajuda, having started singing at the age of 9 for his friends. Driven by an aunt, his debut took place at the…
Katia Guerreiro
Katia Duarte d’Almeida d’Oliveira Rosado Guerreiro (23 February 1976), better known simply as Katia Guerreiro, is a Portuguese fado singer and ophthalmologist born in South Africa. She divides her life between her passions for music and medicine. She is one…
Ana Laíns
Source: museudofado.pt Ana Laíns sings for the first time in public at the age of 6. Born in Tomar, she discovered her talent for music at an early age and at the age of 15 she sang her first fado…
Lenita Gentil
Maria Helena Gentil do Carmo, better known as Lenita Gentil (Marinha Grande, August 6, 1948), is a Portuguese fado singer. Lenita started singing in public at the age of 5. At the age of 16, she made her debut at…
Ada De Castro
Ada Antunes Pereira was born in the parish of Castelo which led her to adopt the stage name of Ada de Castro, a synonymous of her neighbourhood of birth. She began her artistic career as an amateur actress at Grupo…
Buba Espinho
Buba Espinho, a young singer from Alentejo aged just 24, brings with him the legacy of several generations of traditional Portuguese music. Born in Beja, he has experienced and felt roots music intensely from an early age, through the hand…
Maria Da Fé
Her baptism name is Maria da Conceição da Costa Marques; she was born in Porto on the 25 May 1942. Her mother had 17 sons, but she currently has only 5 brothers. She went to elementary school in Porto, where…
Maria Severa, the first Fado icon in Portugal
Maria Severa is, perhaps, the first fado icon in Portugal. She only lived for 26 years – from 1820 to 1846 –, but Maria Severa Onofriana, her full name, revolutionized the Lisbon of her time, but if Lisbon’s fame was…
Cidália Moreira
Cidália Moreira is a Portuguese singer, actress and fado singer born in Olhão, Portugal, in 1944. She is known as the “gypsy fado singer”. From an early age, she demonstrated her passion for singing and dancing, and this was reflected…
Sergio Nunes Fadist
Since 1993 he has participated in several festivals where he got some 1st and 2nd places. Through fado he obtained 1st and 3rd places in the Grande Noite de Fado in Porto and Lisbon.
What is actually… the Portuguese Guitar
Like other European cisterns, it represents both in terms of tuning and in terms of the construction of its interior and exterior, one of the direct developments of the Renaissance European cistern. This instrument was strongly present in court music…
Carminho
Maria do Carmo de Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade (Lisbon, August 20, 1984), artistically known simply as Carminho is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of Teresa Siqueira, also a fado singer, and is considered one of the…
António Mourão
António Mourão, artistic name of António Manuel Dias Pequerrucho, (Montijo, June 3, 1935 – Lisbon, October 19, 2013) was a Portuguese fado singer. Interpreter of the well-known theme “Ó Tempo Volta para Trás”, he withdrew from the artistic world in…
Alfredo Marceneiro
Alfredo Rodrigues Duarte was born in a house on Travessa de Santa Quitéria, in São Bento, on February 29, 1892 — an unusual date that only happens every four years. Therefore, his mother officially registered the birth as having occurred…
Mariza
Marisa dos Reis Nunes, born 16 December 1973, known professionally as Mariza, is a Portuguese fado singer. Mariza was born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, to a Portuguese father, José Brandão Nunes, and a Mozambican mother, Isabel Nunes. When she…
Camané
Camané (born Carlos Manuel Moutinho Paiva dos Santos Duarte, 20 December 1966 in Oeiras) is a male vocalist and a forerunner of the new generation of fado male singers. “The greatest fadista since Amália Rodrigues and Maria da Fé,” is…
Tony De Matos
One of the greatest romantic singers in our country. Tony de Matos marked an era with his presence on stage and his sweet voice, a true crooner and a fado singer of choice. Tony de Matos was born in Porto…
Mafalda Arnauth
Her passion for music was felt since she was a little girl, without ever having, despite that, aspired to be an artist. However, the show business ends up winning her over while still in college, in her 5th year of…
Raquel Tavares
Raquel Tavares was born on January 11, 1985 in Lisbon.Her name gained national notoriety in fado for the first time in 1997, the year in which, at the age of 12, she won the Grande Noite do Fado, an initiative…