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Amália Rodrigues, the voice of fado and the soul of Portugal
Amália Rodrigues was singing fado for them.
“Fado came from the sea,” she said, “from the lament for our sailors who departed and never returned.”
On that spring night in 1953 Rodrigues and her accompanists were returning to Lisbon after six months in the US.
She had performed a long run of dates in Manhattan at the La Vie En Rose club, appropriately for the woman who was to fado what Edith Piaf was to chanson, baring her soul as she introduced Americans to the Portuguese musical form where opera and the blues meet.
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Fado, which means fate, or destiny, is fuelled by melancholy. A sense of loss inhabits every song, every melody, every phrase. It is the embodiment of Portuguese saudade, a yearning, nostalgic grief for something indefinable, something embedded in the Portuguese character.
The best fado singers channel saudade not just through their voice and technique but through their entire being. The gr