"Amália is much more than the queen of fado, the voice of Portugal. Obviously we owe her that. Fado is what it is today thanks to Amália, who took fado from the streets of Lisbon to the big ...

They include Ana Moura and Mariza, all of them indebted to one of the greatest fado artists, Amalia Rodrigues, sometimes called “The Queen of Fado,” who died in Lisbon in 1999 at age 79.

A symbol of identity, Fado music is widely sung in Lisbon and represents a distinctly Portuguese multicultural synthesis of Afro-Brazilian music, local genres of song and dance, rural music, and urban ...