![]() Fado nowadaysĪfter years of associating this music genre with Salazar’s dictatorship and a tourism attraction, nowadays Fado is reawakening. ![]() Fado’s lyrics look back on the country’s history and its scarred soul, which are sung so well by great poets like Pessoa or Camoens. But unlike tango, Fado doesn’t have dancers that sway to the music and is somewhat more introvert, secluded, intimate in essence and “saudade” as the Portuguese say: a tough to translate term encompassing melancholia, longing and nostalgia.įado remembers what is lost, Portugal ’s lost empire, the country that could have been, the man that lost his glory. It has the same passion and the songs are often about women or the sea. Its creation is very similar to Argentina’s renowned tango music. Fado can be traced back to the first half of the eighteenth century, as a force from the city’s most humble districts that slowly but surely penetrated the whole of Lisbon.
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