Amália Rodrigues and the World of Fado

Amália Rodrigues and the World of Fado

Portugal’s most famous singer of the twentieth century and Queen of Fado, Amália Rodrigues passed away in 1999. Beloved by all Portuguese people rich and poor, she became an ambassador for the Portuguese art of Fado, this music that expresses the unique Portuguese melancholic yearning that is Saudade.