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Fado
« on: October 25, 2019, 08:11:27 PM »
Now, Fado belongs in the serious discussion board because it's serious music.

I will start wth a little mini lesson (not that I know all that much, but...)

Traditionally, Fado is sung by women.  It is originally a Lisbon tradition.

In Coimbra, though, men sing it (they sing it in Lisbon, too, but it's not considered traditional).

In Coimbra, the singers started as college students (thus the black student capes.  Once a student grauduates, he/she is entitled to wear the student regalia for life -- so older fadoists dress in the student outfit as well.)

Traditionally, songs are about lost/thwarted love, and back in the day, they wandered the medieval streets andsang under the balconies of rheir loves, of course.  They are also about Coimbra.

Students learn fado (singing and accompaniment) from very intense teachers in universtiy.  The teachers only accept very serious , dedicated students.

These days, students roam around town singing/playing in large and small groups.  Not only fado, but other traditional music as well.  A lot of the students seem to be medical students.  I don't know if that is kind of traditional or what.

It's simply wonderful.
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Re: Fado
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2019, 08:11:52 PM »
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Re: Fado
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2019, 08:15:46 PM »
ROFLMAO needless to say, 99% chance I was the only one who knew what "Fado" was before clicking
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Re: Fado
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2019, 08:22:46 PM »
ROFLMAO needless to say, 99% chance I was the only one who knew what "Fado" was before clicking

Do Brazilians listen to fado?
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Re: Fado
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2019, 08:30:48 PM »
Do Brazilians listen to fado?
It used to be a lot more famous 20 years ago, but many people my age and older still know about it here

Roberto Leal, the most prominent Portuguese singer in Brazil (you probably heard about his death a few weeks ago) made it famous here

Now it's all but forgotten here, more of a musical niche appreciated sporadically by the older people in serestas.
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Re: Fado
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2019, 08:32:50 PM »
I think this is the most famous fado singer.  Or one of them.

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Re: Fado
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2019, 08:34:22 PM »
Fais Do Do:




 Re: Fado - There had been a couple of good hour shows on Fado either on Putamyo Radio Hour or World Cafe ( https://www.npr.org/search?query=Fado&page=1 )  in more recent times. You might be able to find them at the associated websites. One put a lot of focus on Brasil.
 Go hear some:
https://www.google.com/search?q=10+best+places+to+see+fado+music+in+lisbon&oq=10+best+places+for+fado+in+lisbon&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.16751j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Re: Fado
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2019, 08:34:37 PM »
It used to be a lot more famous 20 years ago, but many people my age and older still know about it here

Roberto Leal, the most prominent Portuguese singer in Brazil (you probably heard about his death a few weeks ago) made it famous here

Now it's all but forgotten here, more of a musical niche appreciated sporadically by the older people in serestas.

That's too bad.  It's really beautiful.  I mean, Brazil has it's own incredible musical traditions, but still...

I didn't know about Leal.
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Re: Fado
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2019, 08:39:24 PM »
And, I hate to point it out, but look at the guys in that video.  Are they beautiful, or what.  There are men everywhere who look like that.  Yikes!
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Re: Fado
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2019, 08:54:26 PM »
And, I hate to point it out, but look at the guys in that video.  Are they beautiful, or what.  There are men everywhere who look like that.  Yikes!

Slow your roll, girl.  The beta male's batteries only go so far.
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Re: Fado
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2019, 08:59:15 PM »
Slow your roll, girl.  The beta male's batteries only go so far.

That's what you think.
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Re: Fado
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2019, 09:19:47 PM »
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Re: Fado
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2019, 09:38:07 PM »
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Re: Fado
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2019, 09:45:54 PM »
I think this is the most famous fado singer.  Or one of them.
Indeed, one always hears her called the Rainha do Fado.



Cristina is probably my favorite, although I like several Fadistas including a couple of the men.


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Re: Fado
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2019, 09:52:08 PM »
Very traditional Fado.  Women sang songs of suadade and tristeza for their men who were away at sea.  The black dress and scarf are what the first women fado singers always wore.

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Re: Fado
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2019, 09:54:39 PM »
Indeed, one always hears her called the Rainha do Fado.



Cristina is probably my favorite, although I like several Fadistas including a couple of the men.


OMG.  That is such a typical Portuguese house.
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Re: Fado
« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2019, 09:55:42 PM »
Shit music...
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Re: Fado
« Reply #17 on: October 25, 2019, 10:09:15 PM »
What surprises me is how much more texture there is to the sound of the Portuguese guitar when you hear it live.  I could listen to it for hours. 

And, I do have to say that overall I prefer the women singers.  But, damn, I love it when students (mostly male) sing in the streets.  It's joyous.
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Re: Fado
« Reply #18 on: October 25, 2019, 10:19:37 PM »
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Re: Fado
« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2019, 11:45:29 PM »

That's a GREAT cover of that song by those guys, better than the original by Seu Jorge, bravo, dude waving the flags in the end was kinda too much though LOL
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