How to Use fado in a Sentence

fado

noun
  • At night, take in a traditional fado show.
    — Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
  • One of the owners is Maria da Fé—an icon of traditional fado.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Same for the child of Carminho, the Portuguese fado singer whom Veloso duets with on this new record.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Step back in time with a visit to this fado joint, built in a former chapel in Alfama, with the original tiles and murals still on the walls.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026
  • In recent years, fado music has experienced a similar resurgence as the city that birthed it.
    — Eliot Stein, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Casa-Museu Amália Rodrigues is a museum in the home of the late, great fado music singer, for whom it is named.
    — Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Craving authentic Portuguese pastéis de nata and live fado music?
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In Lisbon, our tour guide assisted us in getting a reservation for a fado music performance with dinner for the next day.
    — Kate Loweth, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The neighborhoods of Alfama and Bairro Alto stay lively late into the night with fado music, good wine, and shared plates.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Visit Coimbra—singing with scholarly pride—its centuries-old university halls echoing with fado melodies.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Almodóvar previously explained that the film’s title echoes the name of a famous fado written and sung by Amália Rodrigues.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The pastel buildings stacked up those hills, fado music spilling out of tiny bars at night, people who actually seem happy to help when you’re lost, were my beautiful introduction.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The result is the Verse (its name inspired by poetry and the local fado music), which opened in the Sao Bento neighborhood last month.
    — Lindsey Tramuta Roxanne Fequiere Luke Fortney Gisela Williams Megan O’Sullivan, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • At Tasco do Chico, renowned for its live fado music, a spot at the bar was available one minute before Saturday night’s first performance began.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • The Portuguese singer explores her origins and identity in her work, combining traditional fado with a modern flair composed of jazz and world music.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Not only hotel guests but also non-guests can enjoy this garden for drinks, meals, or live musical entertainment (including fado) held frequently during the week.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Below, Carminha shares her favorite places to experience fado in Lisbon—from the informal to the buttoned up, with a few trips down her own nostalgia lane.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The film opens with a lonely cowboy (Millennial heartthrob Manu Ríos) singing fado, the Portuguese song of longing and melancholy.
    — Armond White, National Review, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Mariza The fado superstar performs in the 100-seat Joe Henderson Lab.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
  • The whiff of sardines sizzling on street-corner barbeques is as much a part of the city’s fabric as mournful fado music or rivalry between the Benfica and Sporting soccer clubs.
    — Paul Ames, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Zambujo deftly modulates his delivery away from fado’s darkness, bringing a lightness to the songs, and finding a beguiling balance between the music of his homeland and its one-time colonial outpost.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Thanks to its generous visa programs, the country has attracted a wave of digital nomads and retirees who yearn for a different kind of lifestyle—one built around an appreciation for antiquity, fado and good fine and wine.
    — Chelsea Frank, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • In their place are gourmet restaurants (on Madeira, expect pan-Asian, French, Mediterranean and Portuguese outlets) and live music (including fado performances and a historic Catholic chapel that hosts weddings).
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Purists of Portuguese fado might think António Zambujo is something of a philistine for his penchant for teasing out commonalities between the lyric, sorrow-laden genre and sounds from around the globe—especially breezier forms from Brazil.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Housed in the historic Coliseu Micalense theater, the Lava Jazz club hosts artists playing jazz, blues, Portuguese fado, and Azorean folk—including viola da terra virtuoso Rafael Carvalho’s group Trio Origens.
    — Philip Sherburne, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Ditto at the rain-free Humphreys debuts of gospel-music legends The Blind Boys of Alabama, Brazilian music superstar Milton Nasciemento, solo guitarist Stanley Jordan, blues vocal dynamo Shemekia Copland, Portuguese fado singing star Mariza and, in 2017, the pioneering art-rock band King Crimson.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026

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