The exhibition features video-mapping, virtual reality and a full-scale hologram of the artist who put fado on the map. In 1920 the voice of Portugal was born. Her name: Amália Rodrigues. A new ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “O Fado nasceu um dia/ quando o vento mal bulia . . . ” José Régio’s words sketch out the legend of the genre: ...
From the start, it doesn’t feel like fado. Nor does the players’ entrance fit the norm for Lisbon’s hallowed style of melancholy song. It is not the genteel Portuguese guitar but a sharp synthesizer ...
Last week, UNESCO added fado to its inventory of the world’s “intangible cultural heritage.’’ To friends of Portugal, this consecration only stated the obvious. Born in the steep streets and ...
The Queen of Fado Amalia Rodrigues would have turned 98 on July 23rd. Portugal's best known fadista recorded more than 170 records before her death in 1999. So what better way to celebrate her ...
A cantora Carminho escreveu em sextilhas um livro biográfico para crianças sobre a fadista Amália Rodrigues, que sai este mês, numa altura em que se celebra o centenário da diva do fado. “Inspirada no ...
Music has the power to take us to faraway places. Most of those places are only in our heads. But for me, the music of one singer had the power to take me all the way to the capital of Portugal. It ...
In 1920 the voice of Portugal was born. Her name: Amália Rodrigues. A new exhibition focussing on the musician's star-spangled life, titled 'Ah Amália - Living Experience', is opening in the ...
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