You can listen to Fados in the Fado Clubs (Casas de Fado) and you’ll find authentic Fado in the Lisbon neighbourhoods of Alfama, Mouraria and Bairro Alto. It has found a space in the country’s hearts and its lyrics are written by the best poets.įado is largely attributed to the collective memory given by Amália Rodrígues (1920-1999), considered to be the country’s best singer. Fado nowadaysĪfter years of associating this music genre with Salazar’s dictatorship and a tourism attraction, nowadays Fado is reawakening. Fado’s lyrics look back on the country’s history and its scarred soul, which are sung so well by great poets like Pessoa or Camoens. But unlike tango, Fado doesn’t have dancers that sway to the music and is somewhat more introvert, secluded, intimate in essence and “saudade” as the Portuguese say: a tough to translate term encompassing melancholia, longing and nostalgia.įado remembers what is lost, Portugal ’s lost empire, the country that could have been, the man that lost his glory. Fado every night Yes Average price : 50 Opening hours : every day from 8pm to 2am District : Alfama Address : Arco de Jesus 7, Lisboa BOOK YOUR TABLE AT FADO EM SI > HERE Facebook page : 6. A banda de discoteca, el funk, el smooth jazz, el jazz. The fame of the Fado em Si is no longer evident : the greatest names of the Lisbon Fado have already sung there. A Europa, una variant coneguda com a eurodisco es va fer popular cap a finals dels anys setanta. It has the same passion and the songs are often about women or the sea. La msica de la dcada dels 1970 veu sorgir als pasos del bloc capitalista la msica disco, convertida en un xit per a tota la dcada, especialment als mitjans del final dels setanta. Its creation is very similar to Argentina’s renowned tango music. Fado can be traced back to the first half of the eighteenth century, as a force from the city’s most humble districts that slowly but surely penetrated the whole of Lisbon.
0 kommentar(er)
