amália rodrigues - Universidade Aberta

SUMMARY
Amália Rodrigues, a woman of the people, has revolutionized the
thematic of the “corpus fadista” of that time, guided, since the
New State implementation, to sing the national sadness filled with
a sick fatalism.
From her meetings with Alain Oulman and other great poets of
the Portuguese Literature, a breaking movement in Fado was born,
making it the greatest means to communicate the Portuguese
lyricism.
Amália had a good taste, an intuition and an enormous
sensitivity, which influenced her in her options, choosing lyrics
that, through her songs, rhythm and speech; best fitted her voice
and “fado”. She sang what she felt in a total coherence between
her life and her work and she did it in a natural and modest way,
just as the great singers can do. Those like Piaf or Greco, who
sing with their whole body and have music in their heart and in
their voice.
Therefore, her voice was a vehicle of transmission and
popularisation of our literary culture, in Portugal and all around
the world.