FADO - Portuguese Traditional Music

One of our treasures it´s our traditional musics like FADO, one of them. By all country we can hear someone singing Fado. Many are professional other's don't but what is important is the feeling.

Fado as the word indicates is destiny in english and also for us it's the same, we use an expression that is: our life is a "FADO" ( destiny).

Through all this years was "seen" as a sad song usually about tragedy or even death, nowadays are coming up new ways of sing FADO, a new generation are discovering new ritms and other themes, with it they are getting new people hearing them.

Appeared around the 2nd part of century XIX, and we have two different styles of Fado here :
Fado of coimbra and Fado of Lisboa.

In Lisboa we find the traditional one, if you visit Lisboa you can't avoid to listen a Fado's night in small Restaurant's in city there are many.


In Coimbra is more refined, city of students many of them (veterans) sing Fado .

Fado doesn't exist without portuguese guitar, this picture show us one of the bestguitarrists: António Chainho.



Unforgetable is our Amália Rodrigues the most important figure in Fado development.

Try to hear some Fado and express your opinion, I'm waiting

Bye