Rembetiko vs Fado

As a follow up to my previous post, the similarities between the “genuinely Greek” rembetiko and this Portuguese fado are striking, don’t you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_vvDGkbblc Let’s do a bit of reasearch.. Fado (“destiny, fate”) is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal Fate, a Greek concept; 1820s, the year of …