What tango is to Argentina, fado is to Portugal: world-weariness and national identity in music. Originating in the poor districts of Lisbon, the melancholic, atmospherically intense songs of fado are about unfulfilled longing, lost love and social injustice. Carminho, who comes from a family of fado performers, gives the nostalgic genre a modern, contemporary guise with her smoky voice and expressive performance style: “I want to make music of today. I want to express what fado says to me today.”