fado

Portuguese music genre
Intangible music_genre Q185676
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fado

Summary

fado is a music genre[1]. fado draws 2,279 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #196 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • fado's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • fado is a type of Portuguese folk music[4].
  • fado's Commons category is recorded as Fado[5].
  • fado's country of origin is recorded as Portugal[6].
  • 1900 marks the founding of fado[7].
  • fado's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fado[8].
  • fado's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00563[9].
  • fado's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/00563[10].
  • fado's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/00563[11].
  • fado's practiced by is recorded as fado singer[12].
  • fado's practiced by is recorded as fado musician[13].
  • fado's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[14].
  • fado's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[15].

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Definition and Type

fado's instance of is recorded as music genre[3]. fado is a type of Portuguese folk music[4].

Origins

1900 marks the founding of fado[7].

Why It Matters

fado draws 2,279 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #196 of 1,946).[2] fado has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] fado is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. markfreidkin.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . markfreidkin.com. markfreidkin.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id 0325597-fado
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0325597-fado, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  2. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by fado singer, fado musician
    Country of origin
    Instance of music genre
    Maintained by wikiproject WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007565460505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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