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
Maria Amélia Proença21 October, 1938
At her career’s 60th anniversary, celebrated in 2008, Maria Amélia Proença transformed from a “child revelation” into one of the bearers of the Fado tradition, representing a generation of singers that have long retired.
