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  "slug": "amalia-rodrigues",
  "name": "Amália Rodrigues",
  "description": "Amália Rodrigues appears 3 times in our Fado list, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/amalia-rodrigues/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 3,
  "years": {
    "first": 1955,
    "last": 1983
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 1,
    "list": "Fado"
  },
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      "slug": "fado",
      "name": "Fado",
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    {
      "trackKey": "amalia-rodrigues--barco-negro",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/amalia-rodrigues--barco-negro/",
      "title": "Barco Negro",
      "year": 1955,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A woman on a beach insisting to herself that the drowned man will return. Amália is fado, and this is the performance that carried it out of Portugal without softening a syllable.",
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          "exact": false
        },
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      },
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      },
      "artist": "Amália Rodrigues"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "amalia-rodrigues--estranha-forma-de-vida",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/amalia-rodrigues--estranha-forma-de-vida/",
      "title": "Estranha Forma de Vida",
      "year": 1965,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Her own lyric, set to an old fado, about a heart that goes its own way regardless. The most economical statement of what the form is for.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Am%C3%A1lia%20Rodrigues%20Estranha%20Forma%20de%20Vida",
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        },
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        "slug": "fado",
        "name": "Fado",
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      },
      "artist": "Amália Rodrigues"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "amalia-rodrigues--lagrima",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/amalia-rodrigues--lagrima/",
      "title": "Lágrima",
      "year": 1983,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Late Amália, the voice worn and all the better for it. Written with Carlos Gonçalves, and the last great song she added to the standard repertoire.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Am%C3%A1lia%20Rodrigues%20L%C3%A1grima",
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        },
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        }
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      },
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    }
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}