What is actually… Folclore
Sources: CNC / Patrimatic / e-cultura.pt / Lino Mendes Type of Heritage:Intangible Heritage As early as 1878, Folklore was recognized internationally as “traditional knowledge, the untold history of a people”,…
Protest, resistence and revolution songs in Portugal. What are they?
The resistance songs or protest songs, considered after the April 1974 revolution as intervention songs, are made up of poems and songs denouncing a present of repression and arise as…
Rodrigo
He was born into a family with enormous economic needs, so at the age of 12 he stopped studying and started working to help the family, at UTIC, a car…
Amália Rodrigues
Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues (23 July 1920 – 6 October 1999), better known as Amália Rodrigues, was a Portuguese fadista (fado singer) and actress. Known as the 'Rainha do…
What is actually… Fado?
Fado (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfaðu]; "destiny, fate") is a music genre that can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar…