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Paulo Braganca

The melancholy tones of Portugal’s blues-like music, fado, continues to be raised to contemporary standards by vocalist Paulo Braganca. While fado continues to be the building blocks of his music, Braganca provides forsaken the original sounds and only flamenco rhythms, hiphop backbeats and components of Brazilian pop music. As he …

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Amália Rodrigues

The unrivaled queen from the Portuguese fado, singer Amália Rodrigues was created in Lisbon’s Alfama district in 1920; among ten kids, she was forgotten by her mom at age one and elevated by her grandmother, spending her formative years offering produce in the roads and working being a seamstress. Contrary …

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