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Article: Music to cry by: the Portuguese blues.(Fado, Portuguese music)(Brief article)
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- Faces: People, Places, and Cultures
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Portugal is famous for fado (FAH-thoo), a type of folk music. Fado songs are often sad. In fact, a sign of an accomplished fadista, or person who sings fado, is whether he or she can make the audience cry.
Fado, which means "fate," consists of poetry sung to music. The poems tell stories of missing a loved one, life at sea, or ordinary hardships of life.
O waves of the salty sea,
where do you get your salt?
From the tears shed by the women in black
on the sad shores of Portugal.
Portugal's most famous ...
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