Portuguese music includes many different styles and genres, as a result of its history. These can be broadly divided into classical music, traditional/folk music and popular music and all of them have produced internationally successful acts, with the country seeing a recent expansion in musical styles, especially in popular music.
Lisbon-based Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral winner of Eurovision 2017
Amália Rodrigues, the Portuguese singer known as Queen of Fado
Transmontana Bagpipe
The Portuguese musical instrument Cavaquinho used in traditional music
Fado is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar Rui Vieira Nery states that "the only reliable information on the history of fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best. But even that information was frequently modified within the generational transmission process that made it reach us today."
Fado, painting by José Malhoa (1910)
Portuguese guitar
Maria Severa, fado singer (1820–1846)
Coimbra students playing fado in a serenade at the front door of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra (Sé Velha)