Shawl is a tradicional clothe of Fado

Amalia Rodrigues's Biography

Amalia da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues was born on 23rd July in 1920 and she died on 6th October in 1999.
She was known as the "Rainha do Fado" ("Queen of Fado") and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. She was unquestionably the most important figure in the genre’s development,[citation needed] by virtue of an innate interpretive talent carefully nurtured throughout a 40-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. Rodrigues also remains the sole truly international star to have ever come out of Portugal,[citation needed] with an extensive international career between the 1950s and the 1970s, although in an era where such efforts were not as easily quantified as today. Other well-known international fado artists such as Madredeus, Dulce Pontes and Mariza have come close, however.

Origem do Fado

O Fado é um estilo musical português. Geralmente é cantado em por só uma pessoa (fadista) e acompanhado por uma guitarra clássica (denominada viola) e guitarra portuguesa.

A palavra fado vem do latim fatum, ou seja 'destino'. De origem obscura, terá surgido provalmente na segunda metado do século XIX.

O fadista canta o sofrimento, a saudade de tempos passados, a saudade de um amor perdido, a tragédia, a desgraça, a dor, amor e ciúme, a noite, as sombras e a critica a sociedade.

Fado is a typical Portuguese kind of music. It is usually sung by one person (fadista) who is accompanhied by classical guitar and portuguese guitar.
The word ' fado ' comes from the latin 'Fadum' or 'destination'. The beginning of fado's gender takes place in the second half of the nineteenth century.
The 'fadista' sings the pain, the nostalgy of a lost love, the tragedy, a digrace, the fate and destiny, love and jealousy, the night, the shadows and all miseries of life.

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