Tradição
- Brand: Amália Rodrigues
- Product Code: AmaliaRodrigues–Tradicao
Artist :
Amália Rodrigues
Label :
Tugaland
Format :
LP - Black Vinyl
Condition :
New
Released :
2009
Genre :
Folk
World Music
Regular Reissue in heavyweighted Black Vinyl.
Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was the most important Portuguese fado singer and after starting her career rapidly became known not only in Portugal but also in the rest of the world. Fruit of a period of the modernization of the music industry in her country, Amália became a type of spokesperson for the nationalization of the musical genre she sang so well. Between the 1930s and 1940s the growth of Portuguese radio broadcasting meant that from the north to the south of the country, as well as its overseas territories, this type of singing, previously largely restricted to around Lisbon, became the most important expression of Portuguese popular music. Estrela Carvas, born in Vila Real, Trás os Montes, in 1942, moved when young to Angola. As a young girl Estrela followed Amália on the radio and soon fell in love with the singer. At the age of eighteen, having returned to Portugal, she knocked on the door of Amália's house, on Rua de São Bento. From then on she became the singer's principal assistant, accompanying her all over the world.1 Estrela's example is obviously peculiar. She was the only one who managed to reach the intimacy of Amália. However, this brief report demonstrates how fado and Amália built a home for themselves overseas.
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