Portugal
Born: 23 July 1920
Died: 06 October 1999
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Genres: International, Folk
Styles: Fado, Western Europe, European Folk, Western Europe
The unrivaled queen of the Portuguese fado, singer Amália Rodrigues was born in Lisbon's Alfama district in 1920; one of ten children, she was abandoned by her mother at the age of one and raised by her grandmother, spending her formative years selling produce on the streets and working as a seamstress. Against the wishes of her family, as a teen Rodrigues performed as a tango dancer, and at 19 she made her professional singing debut alongside her sister, Celeste, at the fashionable Lisbon nightspot Retiro da Severa. Within a year she was a s...
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