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Amália Rodrigues
Her full name was Amália da Piedade Rodrigues. Amália Rodrigues was born in Lisbon by mere chance, as her parents Lucinda da Piedade Rebordão and Albertino de Jesus Rodrigues were visiting her grandparents on her mother’s side, at Rua Martim Vaz, in the district of Pena.
The date on her birth record is the 23 July 1920. Given the doubts regarding the exact day, the artist adopted the 1 July as her birthday for the rest of her life.
Following her birthday and after having stayed for a short while in the capital looking for a better living, her parents returned to Fundão and left their daughter, then aged fourteen months, with her grandparents.
When she was six, her grandparents moved to the district of Alcântara, where Amália lived until she was 19 – first with her grandparents, then with her parents. She stopped her studies after finishing primary school, because she needed to work to support her family. She was an apprentice seamstress and embroiderer and a worker at a chocolate and candy factory. Later on, together with her sister Celeste, she peddled fruit in the streets of the Alcântara pier and earned a percentage of the sales.
She showed her love for singing at a very early stage and in
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The Portuguese call her the "rainha do fado" (queen of fado), and she is one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, equal to Maria Callas in expressive intensity. Adored in her homeland, Amália Rodrigues triumphed on the greatest international stages and left over one hundred and seventy recordings. She died in 1999, making her the only woman to be inducted into Lisbon's National Pantheon.
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