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Amalia Rodrigues is the voice of Portugal. She is the woman who took out fado in Lisbon bars and introduced to a wide audience around the world. Rodrigues was born in a poor district of Lisbon and raised by her devoutly Catholic grandmother. At the end of the thirties Rodrigues broke through in Portugal and then Spain and Brazil. In the sixties she celebrated successes as an actress but she also… gave birth to a stir by putting poetry of the sixteenth-century poet Luis de Camoes music. After the fall of the Salazar dictatorship Rodrigues was falsely accused of collaborating with the regime. It made the singer withdrew from public life. In 1999, Rodrigues died in Lisbon.more
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