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It is the biggest night of the year for the music industry, with entertainers keen to grab attention (as well as awards) for their daring outfits and raucous antics. ....
29 January 2021 The Portuguese genre called fado began among sailors in the waterfront bars of Lisbon in the 1830s, but it was born into the world when Amália Rodrigues shook the world with her voice a hundred years later. For six decades, the black-clad, dark-haired singer stood astride the genre, giving shape to the mournful heart of Portugal, a county that looked out to an ocean that took its seafaring men. At a 1999 memorial concert for Rodrigues, a young singer named Mariza took the stage and was launched as one of a new generation of successors to Rodrigues. Many platinum records later, the platinum-blonde Mariza has released a tribute to the “Queen of Fado”. While Mariza has a similarly powerful voice like Rodrigues, her album is not a copycat version of songs made famous by the late star. Mariza typically performs with a small group of longtime bandmates. Here she has teamed up with Brazilian cellist and arranger Jaques Morelembaum, who has worked with Brazili ....