Guitarra na proa - Lisboa, Portugal
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N 38° 41.785 W 009° 11.411
29S E 483461 N 4283105
A Portuguese guitar sculpture honoring Amália, known as the Rainha do Fado ("Queen of Fado")
Waymark Code: WMDM58
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 01/29/2012
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A Portuguese guitar sculpture honoring Amália, known as the Rainha do Fado ("Queen of Fado").
It's a work from Domingos de Oliveira, and it's located in the promenade by river Tagus.
Portuguese guitar
The Portuguese guitar (Portuguese: guitarra portuguesa) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses comprising two strings each. It is one of the few musical instruments to use so-called "watch-key" or "Preston" tuners. It is most notably associated with fado.
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Amália Rodrigues
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues,(July 23, 1920 – October 6, 1999), also known as Amália Rodrigues was a Portuguese singer and actress. She was known as the Rainha do Fado ("Queen of Fado") and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. She was one of the most important figures in the genre's development, and enjoyed a 50-year recording and stage career. Amália' performances and choice of repertoire pushed fado's boundaries and helped redefine it and reconfigure it for her and subsequent generations. In effect, Amália wrote the rulebook on what fado could be and on how a female fadista — or fado singer — should perform it, to the extent that she remains an unsurpassable model and an unending source of repertoire for all those who came afterwards. Amália enjoyed an extensive international career between the 1950s and the 1970s, although in an era where such efforts were not as easily quantified as today.
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