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Dubbed Rainha do Fado "Queen of Fado" , she was instrumental in popularising fado worldwide and travelled internationally throughout her career. Rodrigues remains the best-selling Portuguese artist in history.

Amália rodrigues cause of death

She was born in Pena , a parish of Lisbon , Portugal. Rodrigues grew up in poverty and doing odd jobs such as selling fruit on Lisbon's quays. Rodrigues started singing around Her first professional engagement in a fado venue took place in , and she was a guest in stage revues. Rodrigues began acting with a debut film in titled 'Capas Negras' followed by her best known movie, 'Fado' She gained popularity in Spain and Brazil where, in , she made her first recordings on Brazilian label Continental where she spent some time and Paris where she resided.

In , while performing at the Marshall Plan international benefit shows, she introduced the song ' April in Portugal ' to international audiences, under its original title "Coimbra".

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She sang at Hollywood's Mocambo club in In France she was almost as popular as in Portugal, and she performed at the prestigious Parisian Olympia hall. In France during the s—s she performed on television and became a well-known artist. Coimbra became Avril au Portugal. She performed at Olympia for 10 seasons between and She then [ when?

She returned in concentrating on recording and performing live at a slower pace. He wrote melodies for creating a Fado sub-genre known as 'Busto' Bust.