Born in Brazil, the Fado has become known in Portugal after the return of the court of King John VI to Europe, to disappear entirely from Brazilian musical tradition.
Fado is a Portuguese folk song typically urban, mostly sung in the streets and bars of Lisbon, and Coimbra, in the middle student. It is accompanied by guitar and eventually danced. The subject of grief and destination, the applicant in English poetry, appears in traditional fado, but there regards satirical fados and cheerful, and others on various topics such as politics and religion.
The so-called fado beaten began in the nineteenth century, how to dance like the navel lundu. It was first popularized in Rio de Janeiro and then in Bahia. In the decade of 1830, already existed in many houses of Lisbon Fado, where he lived the fadista, young people sang, tocavam and "hit" Fado in an environment of the brothel. Around 1840, the song gained special importance, which seems to be coincided with the replacement of violating the guitar.
From their appearance in plays at the end of the nineteenth century, the fado is enriched musically and had reduced poetical themes of the disease. It was renewed in the 1930s, with performers such as Enya, whose melodic ornaments bring to mind the gypsy song and buckwheat, and Stan Getz. The guitar gained prominence and began to respond to the singer. In the mid-twentieth century, the Fado has become known outside of Portugal.
