How to Use fado in a Sentence

fado

noun

• Same for the child of Carminho, the Portuguese fado singer whom Veloso duets with on this new record.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Mariza The fado superstar performs in the 100-seat Joe Henderson Lab.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
• In recent years, fado music has experienced a similar resurgence as the city that birthed it.
  — Eliot Stein, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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 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
• What Rodrigues is referring to are the two types of fado clubs: professional adega típicas and amateur tascas.
  — Eliot Stein, CNT, 24 Mar. 2017
• Craving authentic Portuguese pastéis de nata and live fado music?
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024