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Born Amália da Piedade Rebordao Rodrigues on July 23, 1920, in Lisbon, Portugal; died on October 6, 1999, in Lisbon, Portugal; married Francisco Cruz (a guitarist), 1940; divorced Cruz; married Cesar Seabra (an engineer; died 1997), c.
1961.
One of Portugal's most beloved music stars, Amália Rodrigues held the heart of a nation for more than 50 years, singing in the style of one of her country's most enduring folk music traditions, fado.
From the Portuguese word for "fate," fado expresses the Portuguese concept of "saudade." Not directly translatable into English, the term describes a deep yearning for the dead past, failed loves, and happier days. Known to legions of her fans as the Queen of Fado, Rodrigues herself was, by her own estimation, ideally qualified to bring fado to mournful life.
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"I have so much sadness in me," she was quoted in the Financial Times of London. "I am a pessimist, a nihilist. Everything that fado demands in a singer I hav