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Early life
Even though official documents give her date of birth as 23 July, Amália herself maintained that her birthday was actually 1 July 1920. The baptism certificate of Rodrigues is in the Parish Church of Fundão, and the document was published in the Journal of Fundão after the singer's death, following its discovery in an investigation by Salvado J. Travassos. She was born in Pena, a parish of Lisbon, Portugal. Her father was Albertino de Jesus Rodrigues, originally from the Castelo Branco distri...
Singing career
Rodrigues started singing around 1935. Her first professional engagement in a fado venue took place in 1939, and she was a guest in stage revues.Around that time she met Frederico Valério, a classically trained composer who recognised Amália's potential and composed numerous melodies especially designed for her- adding orchestral accompaniments. Such as 'Fado do Ciúme', 'Ai Mouraria', 'Que Deus Me Perdoe', and 'Não Sei Porque Te Foste Embora.' By the early 1940s, Amália had become a famous si...
International career
Amalia Rodrigues travelled abroad for the first time in 1943, to perform at the Portuguese ambassador in Madrid Pedro Teotónio Pereira's gala party. She was accompanied by singer Júlio Proença and musicians Armandinho and Santos Moreira. She performed in Brazil in 1945 where she made her first recordings, in Berlin in 1950 and also performed in Mexico and France. She was the first Portuguese artist to appear on American TV on ABC in 1953. She sang at Hollywood's Mocamboclub in 1954. Rodrigues...
Acting career
She continued her acting career, in films like 'Sangue Toureiro' (1958), and 'Fado Corrido' (1964). Rodrigues appeared in Carlos Vilardebó's 1964 arthouse film The Enchanted Islands based on a short story by Herman Melville. Her 1965 recording of poems by 16th century poet Luís de Camões generated acres of newspaper polemics. Her 1968 single Vou dar de beber à dor broke all sales records and her 1970 album Com que vozwon a number of international awards. Having been given Portugal's Film Awar...
In the 1970s, Rodrigues concentrated on live concert performances. During the post-25 April 1974 period, she was falsely accused of being a covert agent of the PIDE; this unjust charge triggered a severe bout of depression on her part. While Salazar had been Prime Minister, Rodrigues had been a financial supporter of the Portuguese Communist Party....
Dame of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal(16 July 1958)Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal(16 February 1971)Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry, Portugal(9 April 1981)Grand-Cross of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal(4 January 1990)According to her will, the Amália Rodrigues Foundation(Fundação Amália Rodrigues) was established. The foundation manages her legacy and assets, except her copyright, willed to two of her nephews. By the time of her death in 1999, Rodrigues had received more than 40 decorations and honors from France (including the Légion d'Honneur), Lebanon, Portu...
Amália Rodrigues' parents had nine children, but only five reached adulthood: Vicente, Filipe, José and António (died as infants), Amália, Celeste, Aninhas (who died at sixteen), Maria da Glória (who died shortly after birth), and Odete. In 1940, she married Francisco Cruz, a lathe worker and amateur guitar player from whom she separated in 1943 an...
Amália Rodrigues at IMDbAmália Rodrigues representou Portugal em todo o mundo, de Lisboa ao Rio de Janeiro, de Nova Iorque a Roma, de Tóquio à União Soviética, do México a Londres, de Madrid a Paris (onde actuou tantas vezes no prestigiadíssimo Olympia). Propagou a cultura portuguesa, a língua portuguesa e o fado.
Amália Rodrigues (1 de julho de 1920, Lisboa – 6 de outubro de 1999, Lisboa, Portugal) foi uma cantora, letrista e atriz portuguesa mundialmente reconhecida pela sua notável.
Oct 6, 1999 · Known as the "Rainha do Fado" ("Queen of Fado"), Amália Rodrigues was a Portuguese singer and actress best known for her passionate and romantic, yet hauntingly tragic, renditions of fado, Lisbon’s traditional form of song. Amália was born in July 1920 in Pena, a parish of Lisbon, Portugal.
Amália Rodrigues, considerada o exemplo máximo do fado e comummente aclamada como a voz de Portugal, foi uma das mais brilhantes cantoras do século XX. Deixou-nos um enorme espólio de álbuns, fados e canções. Esta é a lista, ordenada por ordem alfabética, dos temas gravados por Amália (476 temas). [ 1]
Oct 6, 1999 · Amália Rodrigues is an indisputable figure in the History of Fado and is therefore a key reference in the permanent exhibition of Museu do Fado. In June 2004 the Museu do Fado presented "Amália, Gostava de Ser Quem Era", an exhibition recalling the fado singer which remained open to the public for one year.
