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Amália had the gift of reconciling the urban with the rural, the cultured with the popular, through her unique quality of voice, full of sensual.
Amalia Rodrigues is another fadista who made this music very popular during 20th century and in some way she is still one of the biggest musician star in.
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Amália (II)

Amália’s music can be read alongside not only her biography but also the history of Portugal. During the period of the Estado Novo (1933-1974) both urban fado and rural folk music were appropriated by António Salazar’s programme of nationalism, the former being strictly policed via the censorship of lyrics and the issuing of compulsory performance permits, the latter through the cultivation of ranchos folclóricos and the setting up of rural folklore competitions. Subsequently fado came to be associated by many people with the authoritarian regime. For Joaquim Pais de Brito, however, Amália was able to elide such an association:

During the Estado Novo fado survived in a rather ambiguous position; as it became stationed – through successive laws prohibiting it from being sung in public houses – within the casas típicas which, through their nature, had the bourgeoisie and tourists as their public, fado lived alongside the regime, which, while not adopting or promoting fado, did not distance itself from it either. This did not matter overly since the problem was resol
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Vou Dar de Beber à Dor
1969 studio album by Amália Rodrigues
Vou Dar de Beber à Dor is a fado album recorded by Amália Rodrigues and released in 1969 on the EMI and Valentim de Carvalho labels.^[1] Amália was accompanied by musicians Domingos Camarinha on Portuguese guitar, Castro Mota on viola, and by Raúl Nery's guitar ensemble. The songs were recorded at Valentim de Carvalho de Paço d'Arcos studios. The album cover features a photograph by Augusto Cabrita.
The album reached No. 1 on the Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa (AFP) chart in Portugal and also on the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) chart in France.
Track listing
"Vou Dar de Beber à Dor" (Alberto Fialho Janes) [2:30]
"Disse-te Adeus e Morri" (Vasco de Lima Couto, José António Sabrosa) [2:58]
"Antigamente" (Joaquim Proença, Frederico de Brito) [2:34]
"Canzone per Te" (Endrigo, Bardotti) (3:53)
"Fado Nocturno" (Feijó Teixeira, "Fado José Negro") [2:46]
"Bairro Divino" (Álvaro Duarte Simões) [3:25]
"Ai Esta Pena de Mim" (Amália Rodrigues, José António Sabrosa) [
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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.