The story of Madredeus begins in 1986 when Portuguese musicians Pedro Ayres Magalhães and Rodrigo Leao came up with the idea of a guitar-synthesizer combination for their music. They also pulled in an ...
Madredeus is a Lisbon-based quintet which plays modern variations on traditional Portuguese music. Vocalist Teresa Salgueiro is inevitably the focus of the music and her light, piercing voice is ...
The most famous band in the revival of Portuguese music, Madredeus, hailing from Lisbon, records its songs in the Azores, in the middle of nature. In their songs, each word creates its own special ...
Not speaking a word of Portuguese (and having only the haziest idea of what fado is, other than Portuguese and traditional) is perhaps not the most auspicious approach to seeing Madredeus, performing ...