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Meanings of fado in English

Russian
фада
Portuguese
fadinho
Spanish
fado
Catalan
fado
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Portuguese music genre.

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Usage of fado in English
1
Super-duper fado diva Mariza plays Dublin's National Concert Hall on February 11.
The Irish Times
2
Portuguese fado is reaching global audiences, largely through a singer called Mariza.
The Irish Times
3
In Portugal now, you cannot walk on the street without hearing fado.
The Guardian
4
Drop by A Capella -a 14th-centurychapel now hosting fado performances.
BBC
5
And it's good to know that she was part of making the fado style.
The Guardian
6
Aged five, she started singing fado, but gave up when she entered her teens.
The Guardian
7
Thankfully they weren't playing the fado-itwas lively music, contagious.
Delta girls
8
And fado is very big at the moment.
The Guardian
9
It sounded like the soul's fado,* though it didn't in the least resemble fado.
The book of disquiet
10
In the way of great musical traditions, Portuguese fado comes laden with a mystique all its own.
The Guardian
11
The fado players are hungover and when they come to last night will seem quite fado fado.
The Irish Times
12
Drawn by Portuguese fado songs to find out more about them, she begins her research in France.
Radio NZ
13
What we're talking about is not fadó but fado, with the accent firmly on the first syllable.
The Irish Times
14
I'm showing them that fado is different.
The Guardian
15
But Mariza is adamant that will never stray from her music: 'I will never be tired of fado.
The Guardian
16
They brought back African slaves who had a dance called fado which was then banned for being too erotic.
The Guardian
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Spanish
fado
Catalan
fado
Fado through the time