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
Francisco Perez Andion (Paquito)10 February, 1935 - 27 November, 2004
From his ties with musicians, singers, and poets Paquito develops his skills and at 19 begins working as a violin player at “Parreirinha de Alfama”. It was the beginning of an outstanding career playing with Alfredo “Marceneiro”, Amália Rodrigues, Alberto Ribeiro, Fernando Farinha, Maria Amélia Proença, Celeste Rodrigues, Camané, and Mafalda Arnauth, among many others.
