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Sara Correia’s music album “Do Coração” is among the Latin Grammy nominees for “Best Portuguese Speaking Roots Music Album”. Today, the Latin Recording Academy®  announced the nominees for the 22nd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards®, the preeminent international honor and the only peer-selected award celebrating excellence in Latin music. The Latin GRAMMYs® are voted on by The Latin Academy’s international membership body of music creators who represent all genres and creative disciplines, including recording artists, songwriters, producers, mixers, and engineers. The winners will be known on November 18, in Las Vegas, USA. This year’s Song Of The Year category comprises a diverse group of songwriters…

Fado singer Carlos do Carmo died of an aneurysm on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2021, at Santa Maria Hospital, in Lisbon. He was 81 years old. The Portuguese government declared Monday, January 4th, as a national mourning day for Carlos do Carmo’s death. Funeral services for Carlos do Carmo were held at the Estrela Basilica, a minor basilica and ancient Carmelite convent in Lisbon, Portugal. Fado singer Carlos do Carmo’s urn comes out after the mass in the Basilica da Estrela TIAGO PETINGA/LUSA Born in Lisbon on December 21, 1939, Carlos do Carmo was the son of a famed fado…

The 2021 New Year was born at a great cost. I just received the sad news of the death of the fado icon, Carlos do Carmo. What can I share from this Fado genius who was born for the national song? Surely, growing up in a Fado family influenced him to follow his mother’s footsteps, the great Lucília do Carmo. I simply wish to share some of my memories of Carlos do Carmo. While living in Lisbon When I was 6 years old, I was enrolled in Elemantary School No. 22 at Calçada do Combro in Lisbon. I later realized…

A Portuguese-Canadian playwright through theatre is addressing the dangers of Portuguese-Canadians in North America of “losing their culture,” a barrier that “has now been overcome.” “When we immigrate to a new country, we all run the risk of losing our culture, our own language, what happened to me in the United States, because there is too much pressure to pretend we are not Portuguese,” Explained Elaine Ávila to Lusa. The theatre teacher at Douglas College in Vancouver, the daughter of emigrants from Pico and Faial (Azores), grew up in California but has been in western Canada for 30 years, The…

https://youtu.be/j0QL4xUPZwI Argentina Santos – Amar Não É Pecado Lisbon, 18 Nov 2019 (Lusa) – Argentina Santos died today in Lisbon at age 95, Paulo Valentim, the current owner of the fado house Parreirinha de Alfama, told Lusa. The fado singer was in charge of the fado house from 1950 until the beginning of this century. She became “a gastronomic reference and traditional fado, where some of the best voices such as Celeste Rodrigues, Lina Maria Alves, Lucília do Carmo, António Mourão, Maria da Fé, among others”, said Paulo Valentim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIaQyOOO8RM Argentina Santos – Fado Menor She popularized fados such as “A Minha Pronúncia”, “Chico…

O Dinis Restaurant (Photo: FeelPortugal.com/Feligénio Medeiros) It’s not often that I come to East Providence on a Monday afternoon during rush hour. The 61-mile trip usually takes me about one hour when in light traffic, during rush hour it’s more like two hours. Well, it was a Monday night and I felt like having some great traditional Portuguese food while listening to Portuguese music, and couldn’t think of a better place than O Dinis Restaurant in RI. I knew that David DeMelo, a well-known Portuguese popular music performer, would be singing at O Dinis. If that wasn’t enough of an incentive,…

Newark, New Jersey, mid-80s. Whoever came to live here already knew: fado on weekends was at “El Pastor” or “Quebra Bilhas”. Also, with unforeseen frequency, at the tiny space of the “Friends of Lisbon”. The singers were: Corina (the same one who went on tour with Amália Rodrigues), Emília Silva, Cora de Abreu, Mena Leandro, Zézinha Marques, Elizabeth Maria, Salomé Cardinali, Rosalina Silva (who had the function of singing with the management of the iconic “Quebra Bilhas”), Fátima Molina, Tony Quim, Manuel Vargas, Manuel Silva, Carlos Alberto, Hermínio Silva and Jorge Quaresma, that I remember, at the moment. Well, without guitars…

The Grupo de Fados de Medicina do Porto plans to return to the US between the 10th and 25th of April 2019 for another tour. This time their plans are to visit and perform for the Portuguese communities in California. In order to accomplish this goal, they are appealing to the goodwill and hospitality of Portuguese organizations in the West Coast for help in organizing this visit. Founded in 1992 the Grupo de Fados de Medicina do Porto is composed of students from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto, with more than 25 years of history, who…

By David Mendonça, Contributor (*)In the midst of their East Coast tour, three of contemporary fado’s best young talents–Marco Oliveira, Tânia Oleiro and Sandro Costa–arrive at Rocco’s Restaurant in Wilmington, Massachusetts to perform for a small group of new and old friends. They have played non-stop for three days, including shows in New York City, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, and will leave tomorrow for a sold-out show in Washington, DC before returning on Monday to Lisbon. “Atasca do Fado” at Rocco’s Italian Restaurant Rocco’s is ready for them. As the owner, Joe Cerqueira, draws the blinds and introduces the artists,…

Fado singer Katia Guerreiro presents her latest album “Sempre”, on Friday night, in Carnaxide, on the outskirts of Lisbon, whose starting point was the traditional melodies of fado, she told Lusa. Katia Guerreiro, in statements to Lusa, affirmed that “the vast traditional repertoire [of fado melodies] was the starting point for the construction of this CD”, which is produced by José Mário Branco, who has worked almost exclusively with the fado singer Camané since the album “Uma Noite de fados” (1995). Referring to producer José Mário Branco – with whom Katia Guerreiro had only previously worked on the film “Alfama em…