Born in Portugal, Ana Moura grew up in a home surrounded by all the country's musical styles of and those from its former African colonies of Angola and Cape Verde, as her mother's family had ...

The music of a country is one of the keys to its culture; Argentina has the tango, Spain has flamenco, and Portugal has fado. It's a musical form that draws on many different historical and cultural ...

A symbol of identity, Fado music is widely sung in Lisbon and represents a distinctly Portuguese multicultural synthesis of Afro-Brazilian music, local genres of song and dance, rural music, and urban ...