Amália Rodrigues
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Lisbon, Portugal (1920 – 1999)
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, official documents have her date of birth as the 23rd July, but Rodrigues always said her birthday was the 1st July 1920. She was born in the rua Martim Vaz (Martim Vaz Street), freguesia of Pena, Lisbon. Her father was a trumpet player and cobbler from Fundão who returned there when Amália was just over a year old, leaving her to live in Lisbon with her maternal grandmother in a deeply Catholic environment until she was fourteen, when her parents returned to the capital and she moved back in with them.
She was known as the “Rainha do Fado” (“Queen of Fado”), and was most influential in popularising fado worldwide. She was unquestionably the most important figure in the genre’s development, by virtue of an innate interpretive talent carefully nurtured throughout a forty-year recording and stage career. Rodrigues’ performances and choice of repertoire pushed fado’s boundaries and helped redefine it and reconfigure it for her and subsequent generations. In effect, Rodrigues wrote the rulebook on what fado could be and on how a female singer - or fadista - should perform it, to the extent that she remains an unsurpassable model and an unending source of repertoire for all those who came afterwards.
After a few years of amateur performances, Rodrigues’ first professional engagement in a fado venue took place in 1939, and she quickly became a regular guest star in stage revues. There she met Frederico Valério, a classically-trained composer who, recognising the potential in such a voice, wrote expansive melodies custom-designed for Rodrigues’ voice, breaking the rules of fado by adding orchestral accompaniment.
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KarlaBeatles
I don't understand a word she's saying but I like it:) [2]
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MuzykoLubna
I don't understand a word she's saying but I like it:)
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LuisLeyva
A qualidade das gravações das musicas apresentadas aqui no last fm deixam muito a desejar, ainda por cima algumas delas são gravações ao vivo numa fase já descendente. Amália merecia muito melhor. Eterna saudade <3
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top20fanatico
O meu amor é pequenino como um grão de arroz Tem um palácio que o amor aos pés lhe pôs! ♥
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top20fanatico
Ave Maria Fadista ♥
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beatrizfern
Cheira bem, cheira a fado ♥
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top20fanatico
Ai,quando o Amor vier,seja o que Deus quiser ♥
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AndreDias164
respeitinho é muito bonito!
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MadalenaAlves
Vamos os dois para a farra!! :)
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seytannikahi
Duas Luzes ♥
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titolinhas
Vou Dar de Beber à Dor :)
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Batabid
Beautiful voice, shimmers like sunshine, but also filled with grief and contempt. I am half Portuguese and I remember early memories listening to fado when I was little. With Amália Rodrigues it's like my Portuguese heritage makes so much sense. She was truly an incredible musician. Obrigada Amália.
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Jigsaw_x
Ah Fadista! ♥
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el_Kava
cheira bem, cheira a Lisboa
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blogmeridian
Lovely singing. If someone wanted to know what "wistful" meant, I'd play them a couple of songs by Amalia.
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The_Zena
lisboa
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AndreNunesPT
Lisboa para sempre <3
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cesareslava73
Me rindo ante la fuerza de su voz. No me gustan los boleros ni los tangos, pero el Fado de Amalia es lo mejor. One of my favourite female singers.
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