# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amalia-rodrigues
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:51:59.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amalia-rodrigues"
name: "Amália Rodrigues"
slug: "amalia-rodrigues"
description: "She took fado — Portugal's blues, its sound of longing and shadows — and made it a global idiom. The voice that turned a local genre into an export, and became the country's best-selling recording artist in the process."
tagline: "Portuguese recording artist, fado singer, actress (1920-1999)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1920-07-23"
deathDate: "1999-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.005768042298977
  historical:           24.429424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  140
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Amália da Piedade Rodrigues was born 23 July 1920, and grew up to become the face and voice of fado at a time when the form was still largely confined to Lisbon's streets and taverns. She didn't just sing it; she carried it across borders, touring internationally through decades and proving the music could hold a room anywhere. The world started calling her Rainha do Fado — Queen of Fado — and the title stuck because no one else had done what she did: turn a national tradition into a commercial and artistic force beyond Portugal. By the time she died on 6 October 1999, she had sold more records than any Portuguese artist in history.