Amália
Rodrigues
The unrivaled Queen of the Portuguese Fado, singer Amália
Rodrigues was born in Lisboa's Alfama district in 1920; one of ten
children, she was abandoned by her mother at the age of one and
raised by her grandmother, spending her formative years selling
produce on the streets and working as a seamstress. Against the
wishes of her family, as a teen Rodrigues performed as a tango
dancer, and at 19 she made her professional singing debut alongside
her sister Celeste at the fashionable Lisboa nightspot Retiro da
Severa. Within a year she was a star, selling out clubs every
night; in 1944, she traveled to Brasil, drawing huge crowds during
her stay at the Copacabana Casino and later returning to Rio de
Janeiro to make her first recordings. Rodrigues not only
popularized the fado throughout South America, she reinvented it —
brilliantly fusing the urban and rural styles of Lisboa and
Coimbra, she also sought out material which moved far beyond the
traditional tales of failed romance to instead explore the deepest
crises of the soul and spirit, delivering performances unmatched in
their fatalistic power and haunting beauty.
The hunt
This cache is located in the Jardim (garden) Amália Rodrigues
above Parque (park) Eduardo VII wich is a few steps from
Praça (square) Marquês de Pombal with views of old Lisboa, Castelo
de S. Jorge (St. George's Castle) and the Rio Tejo (Tagus
River).
Nearest BUS stop: "Palácio da Justiça" (Justice Palace) - BUS
nrs. 18, 42, 51 and 203
Cache
Content:
Logbook, pencil, sharpener and an old 2,5 PTE
coin.
Don't forget:
"Cache in, trash out" and
Leave No
Trace
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