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