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Amália Rodrigues
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues was a Portuguese fado singer (fadista). Dubbed Rainha do Fado, she was instrumental in popularising fado worldwide and travelled internationally throughout her career. Rodrigues remains the best-selling Portuguese artist in the history of recorded music.
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entertainment · Portuguese fado singer (1920–1999) · actor · singer · musician · recording artist · fado singer · also Amália Rodrigues, Queen of Fado, Amalia Rodrigues, Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues, Amália da Piedade Rodrigues, Rodrigues
Born 23 July 1920 · Died 6 October 1999 · Q214813
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
lux.iol: Fama d’Alfama celebra Dia Mundial do Fado com homenagem a Amália Rodrigues
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SBS: Amália Rodrigues em Nova Iorque: tributo em tom de fado
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2024· 3 entries
Observador: Parlamento recorda a "rainha do fado" Amália Rodrigues nos 25 anos da sua morte
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publico: Primeiro Festival Amália Rodrigues reúne 40 músicos no Fundão
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Euronews: Immersive exhibition celebrates the colourful 'queen of fado' singer Amália Rodrigues
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “Amália 1970: Ensaios”.
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TSF: 100 anos de Amália Rodrigues. Uma "estranha forma de vida" em imagens
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2019· 2 entries
Travel Agent: MS Amália Rodrigues Joins CroisiEurope’s Fleet
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Travel News: MS Amália Rodrigues joins CroisiEurope fleet
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Amália em Itália”.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Someday: Amália Rodriguez e Norrie Paramor as sessões de 1965”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “For Your Delight”.
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2009· 15 entries
Released album “Amália - Coração independente”.
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Released album “Amália sempre - colecção”.
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Released album “As Primeiras Gravações 1945-1951/2”.
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Released album “The Greatest Collection”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Mundo”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Salero”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Saudade”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Palcos”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Ciúme”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Abandono”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Paixão”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Sina”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Lisboa”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Remorsos”.
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Released album “Amália nossa: Cordas”.
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “The Very Best Of Amalia Rodrigues”.
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A film about her life Amália was released, with Sandra Barata portraying her
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Released album “Maldição”.
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “O melhor de Amália”.
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Released album “Essential”.
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Released album “Fados Clássicos Volume III”.
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Came in 14th in Portugal's election of Os Grandes Portugueses (The Greatest Portuguese)
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Anthology of Portuguese Music”.
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Released album “Uma casa portuguesa”.
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Released album “Anthology of Portuguese Music Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Les Voix du soleil”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Fados clássicos, volume II”.
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2004· 9 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Amália Rodrigues”.
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Released album “This Is Gold”.
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Italian director Francesco Vezzoli released short black-and-white film Amália Traïda, with Sônia Braga portraying Rodrigues
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Released album “Amália: Universal”.
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Released album “Fados, poemas e flores, volume 2”.
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Released album “The Art of Amalia Rodrigues II”.
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Released album “Amália: Portugal”.
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Released album “Duas Luzes”.
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Released album “The Abbey Road Recordings”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “O melhor de Amália - Volume III - Fado da saudade”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Reine du fado”.
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Released album “The Soul of Fado”.
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Released album “Amália Rodrigues & The History of Fado”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Fado Amalia”.
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The first woman ever to be laid among the greatest Portuguese figures
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Selection Amalia Rodrigues: A dama do fado”.
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Released album “O melhor de Amália, volume II: Tudo isto é fado”.
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Released album “En español”.
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1999· 2 entries
Died 1999-10-06.
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Rodrigues had received more than 40 decorations and honors from France (including the Légion d'Honneur), Lebanon, Portugal, Spain, Israel and Japan
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1998· 6 entries
Released album “The Art of Amália Rodrigues”.
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Released album “Ai, Mouraria”.
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Rodrigues was paid a national tribute at Lisbon's Universal Exhibition (Expo '98), and in February 1999 was considered one of Portugal's 25 most important personalities of the democratic period
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Released album “Semplicemente il meglio”.
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Released album “Triste sina”.
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Released album “The Best of Fado”.
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “Segredo”.
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Released album “Uma casa portuguesa /Ay, mourir pour toi / Fado Xuxu”.
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Released album “Fados Clássicos”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Ai chico, chico”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Fados e guitarradas au Portugal”.
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Released album “Enlightenment”.
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Released album “Tudo esto é fado”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Ses plus belles chansons”.
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Released album “O melhor dos melhores”.
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “Cantigas da boa gente”.
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Released album “Fado Lisboeta”.
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Released album “Coimbra”.
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Released album “Raizes”.
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1990· 5 entries
The celebrations of her 50th career anniversary started with a major concert in Lisbon's Coliseu dos Recreios at the age of 69
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Released album “Obsessão”.
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Released album “Fado es ... Amalia Rodrigues”.
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Released album “A rainha do Fado”.
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Released album “O Fado”.
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Amália 50 anos: Ao vivo”.
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Released album “Amália 50 anos: Rara e Inédita”.
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Released album “50 anos: internacional”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “O melhor de Amália : Estranha forma de vida”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Amália na Broadway”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Lágrima”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Fado”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Gostava de ser quem era”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Cantigas numa língua antiga”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Amalia in Italia”.
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “Golden Record”.
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Released album “A una terra che amo”.
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “Amália canta Portugal III”.
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Released album “Encontro com Don Byas”.
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1971· 3 entries
Released album “Oiça lá ó Senhor Vinho”.
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Released album “Cantigas D'Amigos”.
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Released album “Amália canta Portugal 2”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Com que voz”.
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1967· 2 entries
Released album “Vou dar de beber à dor”.
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Released album “Fados 67”.
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1966· 3 entries
And over the next two years she sang in Israel, the UK, France, and the US, accompanied by Andre Kostelanetz; in the US, she performed in New York city and at Promenade Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl
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Released album “Fado...The Soul of Portugal”.
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And forced into exile, but he continued contributing for Rodrigues
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Fado português”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Amália 1963”.
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1962· 1 entry
Concentrating on recording and performing live at a slower pace
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1961· 1 entry
In Rio de Janeiro, she married César Seabra and remained married until his death in 1997
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1958· 2 entries
Released album “Amália Rodrigues”.
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Released album “Amalia Rodrigues et ses guitaristes”.
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Amália Encores”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “Amália Rodrigues, accompagnement de guitares”.
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1954· 1 entry
Released album “Amália Rodrigues Sings Fado From Portugal Flamenco From Spain”.
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1950· 1 entry
While performing at the Marshall Plan international benefit shows, she introduced the song "April in Portugal" to international audiences, under its original title "Coimbra"
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1947· 1 entry
And won another in 1965 for a non-singing role
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1946· 1 entry
Titled Capas Negras, followed by her best known movie, Fado (1947)
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1945· 1 entry
Where she made her first recordings, in Berlin in 1950 and also performed in Mexico and France
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1943· 1 entry
To perform at the Portuguese ambassador in Madrid Pedro Teotónio Pereira's gala party
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1940· 1 entry
Married Francisco Cruz, a lathe worker and amateur guitar player from whom she separated in 1943 and whom she divorced in 1946
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-07-23.
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