\nThe Portuguese singer Am\u00e1lia da Piedade Re-bord\u00e3o Rodrigues was born in Lisbon on July 23, 1920. She died on October 6, 1999 in her hometown. In July 2020, her birthday turns 100.
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\nAm\u00e1lia was one of ten children of a poor green-
\ngrocer. As a young girl, she helped to sell fruits in the Alc\u00e2ntara docks. In 1939 she started her career as a Fado singer in the nightclub “Retiro da Severa”.
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\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>In 1944 and 1945 she was on tour in Brazil, where the first of her more than 170 recordings took place. Her international breakthrough came in the 1950s with the song “Coimbra”, written by Raul Ferrao in the late 1930s. The song later became a worldwide success under the title “April in Portugal”. In the 1940s and 50s, Am\u00e1lia Rodrigues also starred in about a dozen films.
\nAm\u00e1lia Rodrigues, the “Queen of Fados”, is considered the most important Fado singer. Through her worldwide tours and numerous television appearances all over the world, she shaped the international image of this genre like no other.
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\nThe video shows Am\u00e1lia Rodrigues at her last concert in Lisbon. A week before her death in September 1999, she reinterpreted the song “Coimbra”, with which she achieved her international breakthrough in the 1950s.<\/div><\/div>
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\nThe video shows Am\u00e1lia Rodrigues at her last concert in Lisbon. A week before her death in September 1999, she reinterpreted the song “Coimbra”, with which she achieved her international breakthrough in the 1950s.<\/div><\/div>
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