The Washington Post, October 11th, 2002
Like the tango in Argentina or the blues in the United States, the fado began in Portugal as a disreputable music of the poor and working class but showed such staying power that it was eventually embraced by the establishment. That embrace proved more dangerous than the previous disdain, and fado had almost calcified into irrelevance in the years before its greatest artist, Amalia Rodrigues, died in 1999. But since the mid-'90s, a fado new wave has arisen and flourished; one of its stars is Cristina Branco, whose new album is "Corpo Iluminado." Branco pays tribute to the late Queen of Fado b...
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