Digital Sound Archive
Listen to historic moments online.
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
Alexandra25 April, 1950
One of the most talented and popular Portuguese singers of the twentieth century, she was born in Beira Baixa and spent her childhood in Mozambique. She inherited her singing features from her “beirão” mode of interpreting but her strongest interpreting influences came from Africa.
