Amália Rodrigues - Lisboa, Portugal
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N 38° 46.167 W 009° 07.711
29S E 488835 N 4291200
The bigest portuguese "fadista", who sung Fado as nobody did it.
The statue is inside Lisbon airport. The cohordinates are of the main entrance.
Waymark Code: WMJYGW
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 01/17/2014
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Amália da Piedade Rodrigues (July 23, 1920 – October 6, 1999), known as Amália Rodrigues, was a Portuguese singer and actress. She was known as the Rainha do Fado ("Queen of Fado") and was most influential in popularizing fado worldwide, as well as one of the most important figures in the genre's development. Enjoying a 50-year recording and stage career, Amália became the pre-eminent female fadista. She enjoyed an extensive international career between the 1950s and the 1970s, and was the main inspiration to other well-known international fado and popular music artists such as Madredeus, Dulce Pontes, and Mariza.
The most famous Portuguese Guitar player that accompained Amália was José Fontes Rocha.
Amália Rodrigues remains today as Portugal's most famous artist and singer, a woman who was born into an almost destitute family and who grew to become not only Portugal's major star but also an internationally acclaimed artist and singer, whose career spanned 55 years of activity, recording songs in several languages (especially Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and Italian), versions of her own songs, most famously "Coimbra" ("April In Portugal") and performing all over the world, achieving tremendous success in countries like France, Italy, Argentina, Spain, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Romania, Japan and The Netherlands, among many others.
Her personality and charisma, the beauty of her face and her extraordinary timbre of voice, gave depth and intense life to her chant: the impression she made on the public, her immediacy and the natural way she empathized with her public were tremendous and attracted more and more admirers throughout the world.
By the time of her death in 1999, Amália had received more than 40 decorations and honors from all over the world (mostly France, including the Légion d'Honneur, Lebanon, Portugal, Spain, Israel and Japan).
Most importantly Amália put fado as a musical genre on the map of world music, in dictionaries, libraries and musical essays. She paved the way for the generations that would follow, and that continue her legacy.
Source: Wikipedia
Name of Musician: Amália Rodrigues
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