Ana Moura says she didn't decide to become a fadista, a singer of the fervent, longing-filled Portuguese music called fado, or fate. "Fado chose me," says the lush-voiced Portuguese singer, who brings ...

We all know sad songs say so much. If so, the fado must say more than any other song-form in the world. Named for the Portuguese word for fate, the fado treats romantic pain with enough zeal to please ...

This Sunday evening, Ana Moura will be giving a performance at the Bowker Auditorium. She will be singing in the traditional Portuguese style known as Fado, which draws from the emotions of suffering, ...

It’s no surprise that Ana Moura embraced fado while growing up in Northern Portugal. Fado, the mournful folk music of the Portuguese, which dates back more than 200 years, is ubiquitous throughout ...

The Dakota was dark on Monday night. Almost as dark as when Prince performed there. This time, though, he was in the audience and sent several floral arrangements that adorned Ana Moura's dimly lit ...

Ana Moura performs at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica next month on Feb. 17th. It is the perfect venue for her acoustic music. Elegant, not too big, great acoustics. Fado is like a fine, old but ...

Fado is the traditional Portuguese music of lament and longing. So how did a young, beautiful and successful singer become the new face of the 200-year-old musical genre? "I think there are some ...

and by phone at 216-421-7350 and 1-888-CMA-0033 (888-262-0033). Happy, happy stuff. "I started because I grew up listening to my parents singing," said Moura, who was born in Santarem and was calling ...

Ana Moura has already won over discriminating fans such as Prince and the Rolling Stones. With her fifth studio album, "Desfado," the 31-year-old Portuguese singer who is leading the popular ...

As a fado singer, Portugal’s Ana Moura has an innate sense of drama. So when she returned to the sold-out Dakota Jazz Club on Monday for the first time in five years, she waited until the middle of ...

Searching the Internet for information about the Portuguese folk music known as fado yields few conclusive answers as to its origins. Although most sources seem to agree that it first gained ...

Portugal has two healthy cultural obsessions: soccer and the music called fado, the latter of which has attracted fans and practitioners from Lisbon to Brisbane and beyond. Its latest star, fadista ...