Digital Sound Archive
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Fado Route
Meet fado in Lisbon.
Fado is meant to be felt,
not understood,
or explained.
not understood,
or explained.
- Amália Rodrigues
An interactive museum to see, hear and feel Fado - Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Discover centuries of history and personalities that still reinvent and keep this heritage alive today. Visit us.
Get to know who sings, who plays and the history that unites all of us.
Personality of the Week
Ricardo Parreira20 April, 1986
Ricardo Parreira began his studies in Portuguese Guitar with 7 years old by his father’s hand, one of the most esteemed guitar players on Fado’s national panorama, António Parreira. By the age of 13 he accompanied for the first time the fado singer Argentina Santos and immediately after was invited to take part in the Festival “Um Porto de Fado”, in the extent of the event “Oporto 2001, Capital of Culture”
