Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues (1920–1999) was a Portuguese singer an… Read Full Bio ↴Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues (1920–1999) was a Portuguese singer and actress.
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, official documents have her date of birth as the 23rd July, but Rodrigues always said her birthday was the 1st July 1920. She was born in the rua Martim Vaz (Martim Vaz Street), freguesia of Pena, Lisbon. Her father was a trumpet player and cobbler from Fundão who returned there when Amália was just over a year old, leaving her to live in Lisbon with her maternal grandmother in a deeply Catholic environment until she was fourteen, when her parents returned to the capital and she moved back in with them.
She was known as the "Rainha do Fado" ("Queen of Fado"), and was most influential in popularising fado worldwide. She was unquestionably the most important figure in the genre’s development, by virtue of an innate interpretive talent carefully nurtured throughout a forty-year recording and stage career. Rodrigues' performances and choice of repertoire pushed fado’s boundaries and helped redefine it and reconfigure it for her and subsequent generations. In effect, Rodrigues wrote the rulebook on what fado could be and on how a female singer - or fadista - should perform it, to the extent that she remains an unsurpassable model and an unending source of repertoire for all those who came afterwards.
After a few years of amateur performances, Rodrigues’ first professional engagement in a fado venue took place in 1939, and she quickly became a regular guest star in stage revues. There she met Frederico Valério, a classically-trained composer who, recognising the potential in such a voice, wrote expansive melodies custom-designed for Rodrigues’ voice, breaking the rules of fado by adding orchestral accompaniment.
Her Portuguese popularity began to extend abroad with trips to Spain, a lengthy stay in Brazil (where, in 1945, she made her first recordings on Brazilian label Continental) and Paris (in 1949). In 1950, while performing at the Marshall Plan international benefit shows, she introduced "April in Portugal" to international audiences (under its original title "Coimbra"). In the early fifties, the patronage of the acclaimed Portuguese poet David Mourão-Ferreira marked the beginning of a new phase; Rodrigues sang many of the country's greatest poets, and some wrote lyrics specifically for her.
In 1954, Rodrigues' international career skyrocketed through her presence in Henri Verneuil’s film The Lovers of Lisbon, where she had a supporting role and performed on-screen. By the late 1950s the USA, England, and France had become her major international markets (Japan and Italy followed in the 1970s); in France especially, her popularity rivalled her Portuguese success, and she graduated to headliner at the prestigious Olympia theatre within a matter of months. Over the years, she performed nearly all over the world, going as far as the Soviet Union and Israel.
At the end of the 1950s, Rodrigues took a year off. She returned in 1962 with a richer voice, concentrating on recording and performing live at a slower pace. Her comeback album, 1962's Amália Rodrigues, was her first collaboration with French composer Alain Oulman, her main songwriter and musical producer throughout the decade. As Valério had before him, Oulman wrote melodies for her that transcended the conventions of fado. Rodrigues did not shy away from controversy: her performance in Carlos Vilardebó’s 1964 arthouse film The Enchanted Islands was better received than the film, based on a short story by Herman Melville, and her 1965 recording of poems by 16th century poet Luís de Camões generated acres of newspaper polemics. Yet her popularity remained untouched. Her 1968 single "Vou Dar de Beber à Dor" broke all sales records, and her 1970 album Com que Voz, considered by many her definitive recording, won a number of international awards.
During the 1970s, Rodrigues concentrated on live work, and embarked upon a heavy schedule of worldwide concert performances. During the frenetic period after the 25th April 1974 she was falsely accused of being a covert agent of the PIDE, causing some trauma to her public life and career. (In fact, during the Salazar years, Rodrigues had been an occasional financial supporter of some communists in need.) Her return to the recording studio in 1977 with Cantigas numa Língua Antiga was received as a triumph. The 1980s and 1990s brought her enthronement as a living legend. Her last all-new studio recording, Lágrima, was released in 1983. It was followed by a series of previously lost or unreleased recordings, and the smash success of two greatest hits collections that sold over 200,000 copies combined.
Despite a series of illnesses involving her voice, Rodrigues continued recording as late as 1990. She eventually retreated from public performance, although her career gained in stature with an official biography by historian and journalist Vítor Pavão dos Santos, and a five-hour television series documenting her fifty-year career, featuring rare archival footage (later distilled into the ninety-minute film documentary, The Art of Amália). Its director, Bruno de Almeida, has also produced Amália, Live in New York City (a concert film of her 1990 performance at New York City Hall).
Rodrigues died on the 6th October 1999 at the age of seventy-nine in her home in Lisbon. Portugal's government promptly declared a period of national mourning. Her house (in Rua de São Bento) is now a museum. She is now buried at the National Pantheon alongside other Portuguese notables.
1946.
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, official documents have her date of birth as the 23rd July, but Rodrigues always said her birthday was the 1st July 1920. She was born in the rua Martim Vaz (Martim Vaz Street), freguesia of Pena, Lisbon. Her father was a trumpet player and cobbler from Fundão who returned there when Amália was just over a year old, leaving her to live in Lisbon with her maternal grandmother in a deeply Catholic environment until she was fourteen, when her parents returned to the capital and she moved back in with them.
She was known as the "Rainha do Fado" ("Queen of Fado"), and was most influential in popularising fado worldwide. She was unquestionably the most important figure in the genre’s development, by virtue of an innate interpretive talent carefully nurtured throughout a forty-year recording and stage career. Rodrigues' performances and choice of repertoire pushed fado’s boundaries and helped redefine it and reconfigure it for her and subsequent generations. In effect, Rodrigues wrote the rulebook on what fado could be and on how a female singer - or fadista - should perform it, to the extent that she remains an unsurpassable model and an unending source of repertoire for all those who came afterwards.
After a few years of amateur performances, Rodrigues’ first professional engagement in a fado venue took place in 1939, and she quickly became a regular guest star in stage revues. There she met Frederico Valério, a classically-trained composer who, recognising the potential in such a voice, wrote expansive melodies custom-designed for Rodrigues’ voice, breaking the rules of fado by adding orchestral accompaniment.
Her Portuguese popularity began to extend abroad with trips to Spain, a lengthy stay in Brazil (where, in 1945, she made her first recordings on Brazilian label Continental) and Paris (in 1949). In 1950, while performing at the Marshall Plan international benefit shows, she introduced "April in Portugal" to international audiences (under its original title "Coimbra"). In the early fifties, the patronage of the acclaimed Portuguese poet David Mourão-Ferreira marked the beginning of a new phase; Rodrigues sang many of the country's greatest poets, and some wrote lyrics specifically for her.
In 1954, Rodrigues' international career skyrocketed through her presence in Henri Verneuil’s film The Lovers of Lisbon, where she had a supporting role and performed on-screen. By the late 1950s the USA, England, and France had become her major international markets (Japan and Italy followed in the 1970s); in France especially, her popularity rivalled her Portuguese success, and she graduated to headliner at the prestigious Olympia theatre within a matter of months. Over the years, she performed nearly all over the world, going as far as the Soviet Union and Israel.
At the end of the 1950s, Rodrigues took a year off. She returned in 1962 with a richer voice, concentrating on recording and performing live at a slower pace. Her comeback album, 1962's Amália Rodrigues, was her first collaboration with French composer Alain Oulman, her main songwriter and musical producer throughout the decade. As Valério had before him, Oulman wrote melodies for her that transcended the conventions of fado. Rodrigues did not shy away from controversy: her performance in Carlos Vilardebó’s 1964 arthouse film The Enchanted Islands was better received than the film, based on a short story by Herman Melville, and her 1965 recording of poems by 16th century poet Luís de Camões generated acres of newspaper polemics. Yet her popularity remained untouched. Her 1968 single "Vou Dar de Beber à Dor" broke all sales records, and her 1970 album Com que Voz, considered by many her definitive recording, won a number of international awards.
During the 1970s, Rodrigues concentrated on live work, and embarked upon a heavy schedule of worldwide concert performances. During the frenetic period after the 25th April 1974 she was falsely accused of being a covert agent of the PIDE, causing some trauma to her public life and career. (In fact, during the Salazar years, Rodrigues had been an occasional financial supporter of some communists in need.) Her return to the recording studio in 1977 with Cantigas numa Língua Antiga was received as a triumph. The 1980s and 1990s brought her enthronement as a living legend. Her last all-new studio recording, Lágrima, was released in 1983. It was followed by a series of previously lost or unreleased recordings, and the smash success of two greatest hits collections that sold over 200,000 copies combined.
Despite a series of illnesses involving her voice, Rodrigues continued recording as late as 1990. She eventually retreated from public performance, although her career gained in stature with an official biography by historian and journalist Vítor Pavão dos Santos, and a five-hour television series documenting her fifty-year career, featuring rare archival footage (later distilled into the ninety-minute film documentary, The Art of Amália). Its director, Bruno de Almeida, has also produced Amália, Live in New York City (a concert film of her 1990 performance at New York City Hall).
Rodrigues died on the 6th October 1999 at the age of seventy-nine in her home in Lisbon. Portugal's government promptly declared a period of national mourning. Her house (in Rua de São Bento) is now a museum. She is now buried at the National Pantheon alongside other Portuguese notables.
1946.
Il Cuore Rosso Di Maria
Amália Rodrigues Lyrics
È venuta da me ieri sera
Con quegli occhi celesti che ha
Non parlava, era una preghiera
Quando ha detto di lui che ne fa
Ti porto il cuore rosso di Maria
Che battere non sa senza di te
Riprenditi l'amore di Maria
Che amore tanto grande non ce n'è
Ti preparo un caffè che fa freddo
L'altra volta non era così
Le tue braccia eran piene di sole
Ma tra noi è finita così
Ti porto il cuore rosso di Maria
Mi pesa tra le mani allora tu
Adesso tu dovrai portarlo via
Se no senza di te non vive più
Non potrei farla piangere ancora
Con quegli occhi celesti che ha
Quante volte finisci in un'ora
Un amore che fine non ha
Ti porto il cuore rosso di Maria
Che battere non sa senza di te
Riprenditi l'amore di Maria
Che amore tanto grande non ce n'è
Ti porto il cuore rosso di Maria
Che battere non sa senza di te
Con quegli occhi celesti che ha
Non parlava, era una preghiera
Quando ha detto di lui che ne fa
Ti porto il cuore rosso di Maria
Che battere non sa senza di te
Riprenditi l'amore di Maria
Che amore tanto grande non ce n'è
L'altra volta non era così
Le tue braccia eran piene di sole
Ma tra noi è finita così
Ti porto il cuore rosso di Maria
Mi pesa tra le mani allora tu
Adesso tu dovrai portarlo via
Se no senza di te non vive più
Non potrei farla piangere ancora
Con quegli occhi celesti che ha
Quante volte finisci in un'ora
Un amore che fine non ha
Ti porto il cuore rosso di Maria
Che battere non sa senza di te
Riprenditi l'amore di Maria
Che amore tanto grande non ce n'è
Ti porto il cuore rosso di Maria
Che battere non sa senza di te
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: GINO MESCOLI, VITO PALLAVICINI
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rginaazevedo
Adoro essa gravação!!! Regina São Paulo - Brasil
Manuel Da Silva Lopes
The Best voice ever !!!
exhale24
che emozione infinita sentire la grande Amalia far vibrare la mia lingua con la sua voce meravigliosa... da brividi!
exhale24
@madeira63 il fatto che sia sia stato scritto apposta per lei in italiano, lo rende ancora più speciale, grazie infinite per averlo caricato!
Alessandro Moccia
Che Meraviglia!
Cristina Dauria
/****/ "GRANDIOSA,....INTERPRETACION ". ****/
Maurizio B.F.
Nel '70 registrai involontaariamente, "la casa in via del campo" sul mio registratore nuovissimo. Riascoltando le canzoni per diverse volte, Amalia mi conquistò e, ricordo, cercai di acquistare tutti i long - play suoi, ma erano veramente pochi. Da quel temo lontano decisi di ascoltarla dal vivo. Non ci riuscii, ma insieme a mia moglie dopo ventii anni sono riuscito a portarle una rosa rossa al Panteon a Lisbona. Ora, cerchiamo sempre sue canzoni. Grazie Mdeira63!
Aldo Cusma
Io ho sempre amato da ragazzo Amalia la sua voce la magia del fado, ho avuto la fortuna di ascoltarla dal vivo in occasione dell'Expo 1998 a Lisbona quando già le sue corde vocali erano state minate dal male. E' stata ugualmente una grande artista, ho una numerosissima collezione di suoi dischi e suoi CD, torno spesso nella meravigliosa città di Lisbona e ogni volta trovo sempre la sua atmosfera e qualche suo cimelio. Grazie Amalia
Tony Puddu
Sono ormai un po' di anni che puntualmente vado a Lisbona per la musica meravigliosa quale è il Fado. Amalia è tutt'ora qualcosa che è impresso nei cuori di tanta gente che l'ha vissuta ed' impostata anche nella mente dei giovani che attraverso le sue fantastiche musiche la conoscono e la amano come se avesse appena cantato. Amalia ha lasciato una impronta, un amore che ha allevato tante e tanti cantanti di Fado che sono semplicemente una grande emozione già dalle primissime note.
francesco lobina
Maurizio B.F. Bello voglio portarle anche io un fiore