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
Argentina Santos6 February, 1924 - 18 November, 2019
Unlike other renowned women singers who, very young, already sang Fado in public, Argentina Santos only started her artistic career after the opening of that restaurant, where she went to work as a cook, with 24 years old. After leaving the kitchen, Argentina Santos walked round the tables, always asked to sing a Fado.
