Amália Hoje

Involving members from the Portuguese alternative rock-band the Present, Hoje produced their documenting debut in ’09 2009 with Amália Hoje, a chart-topping album of tunes originally popularized by fado legend Amália Rodrigues. The music group is definitely led by Nuno Gonçalves and contains the involvement of vocalists Sónia Tavares, Fernando Ribeiro, and Paulo Praça. Gonçalves and Tavares will be the keyboardist and vocalist respectively from the Gift, an alternative solution rock band having a wide-ranging design that pulls from pop aswell as digital music. Founded in 1994, the Present broke to mainstream achievement in 2004 with AM-FM, a dual record that reached the very best Five from the Portuguese albums graph. Ribeiro, alternatively, may be the vocalist from the dark metal music group Moonspell, whereas Praça is certainly a vocalist and guitarist who produced his solo record debut in 2007 with Disco de Cabeceira over time in the rock-band Plaza. Founded being a aspect task by Gonçalves, Hojedebuted with Amália Hoje on Sony Music. A chart-topping smash strike, Amália Hoje contains music popularized by Amália Rodrigues, included in this “Gaivota,” the album’s business lead single, that was likewise lots one smash strike in the Portuguese graphs. Rodrigues, generally known as the Queen of Fado (i.e., Rainha perform Fado), passed away in 1999 and left out a huge catalog of traditional recordings. She was most well-known in the 1950s towards the 1970s and continued to be sporadically active through the 1980s and 1990s. During her well-known top in the 1960s, she collaborated thoroughly with Alain Oulman, a French songwriter and manufacturer whose compositions comprise a lot of Amália Hoje, including “Gaivota.”