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Lisbon, Jul 23 (EFE), (Camera: Nacho Ballesteros).- Portugal paid tribute to fado queen Amália Rodrigues one hundred years after her birth.FOOTAGE OF AMÁLIA RODRIGUES FOUNDATION.SOUNDBITES OF VICENTE RODRIGUES, PRESIDENT OF AMÁLIA RODRIGUES FOUNDATION:"The memory of Amália is still alive among the Portuguese and, for us, she is a reference. She is one of the most relevant figures we had in the 20th century in the cultural area.""We had two exhibitions touring the country when the pandemic arrived and we had to suspend them because people couldn't be in public spaces. We are going to resume at the end of July.""He sang in more than 50 countries and, despite the years after her death, she still has a very large number of fans around the world."
Lisbon, Jul 21 (EFE), (Camera: Nacho Ballesteros).- "It smells good, it smells like Lisbon", the famous Amália Rodrigues sang in one of her most famous fados. A hundred years after her birth and two decades after her death, Lisbon still smells of Amália, whose music can easily be remembered through emblematic places of the Portuguese capital.FOOTAGE OF LISBON.SOUNDBITES OF VICENTE RODRIGUES, PRESIDENT OF THE AMÁLIA FOUNDATION:"When visiting the house it is possible to get to know the kind of person Amália was. We know what she sang, the voice she had, the shows she gave around the world, but there is another, more personal part of her as a woman and the relationships she had with friends and family... A visit to the house, with specialized guides, allows us to get to know another side of Amália, the most personal part that wasn't known.""She was really a person who cultivated the sympathy of the Portuguese and who also adored the Portuguese, and that feeling lives among us."
Lisbon (Portugal), Sep 22 (EFE), (Camera: Cynthia de Benito).- The coronavirus may have disrupted the seating capacity, but will not disturb the intensity of the tribute to the centenary of Amália, the great diva of Fado, which hosts the Teatro Real in Madrid next Saturday. It's about making a virtue out of necessity. The event, the X International Fado Festival in Madrid, was intended to be the great commemoration abroad of the so-called "voice of Portugal", which was born 100 years ago.FOOTAGE OF THE FADO MUSEUM IN LISBON AND SOUNDBITES FROM FÁBIA REBORDÃO AND ANA MOURA, FADISTAS.TRANSLATION:REBORDÃO:"I am going to sing "Estranha forma de vida", which is one of the first songs Amália wrote, and therefore I chose that song, I recorded a video clip during the pandemic, at the beginning of the pandemic, I recorded it on my birthday, to offer it to all those who were in the first line, that was my way of paying homage. So I think that is going to be the icing on the cake of the concert, because it has different arrangements than Amália's, because I think we can change the form and not the content, I think the content should be kept. Therefore I am going to sing that song, "Estranha forma de vida" like so many others that I decided to pay homage to her especially in this year that is 100 years old". MOURA:"I think... I can talk about my case, right? I took a look at the box office and you can see that it is already being composed, and therefore, I feel happy to feel that interest from people, and the expectation is... for example, I was in France now and I felt that people were eager to hear music and to feel the comfort that music can give them. And therefore that is my expectation: that people feel related to the music I have to help them, and to the comfort that I can give them through the music that I sing."
Britain's King Charles III arrives at the St George's Chapel of Windsor Castle, alongside Queen Camilla, for an Easter Sunday service - his first major public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer last month. IMAGES
Images of King Charles III, currently being treated for cancer, and Queen Camilla leaving just after they attended a religious service at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in the royal estate of Sandringham, eastern England. This is the King's second public appearance since announcing his cancer diagnosis earlier this week. IMAGES