Fall 2022 and winter and spring of the new year gave rise to studio time and the recording of Ramana Vieira’s new and fifth fado album, “Tudo De Mim” (All of Me), a time and the creative process she ...

Vieira’s personal relationship to fado music lies deep in her family history. Her grandfather was a well-known musician and composer from Madeira Island, Portugal. She was born in San Leandro, ...

Ramana Vieira of Vacaville, an internationally known singer of fado, a kind of Portuguese folk song, usually melancholic and nostalgic, calls the music “a window into the soul” of Portuguese people.

ON SULTRY summer nights, the passionately mournful fado music drifts out of bars and nightclubs in Lisbon. It’s urban music of the Portuguese soul, longing for lost love and lost chances. A singer, ...

Fado music inevitably evokes that Portuguese feeling of nostalgia and loss known as saudade. Which means the city is in for a pretty melancholic week. The Portuguese genre’s biggest star, Mariza, ...