Artist
Amália Rodrigues
Amália Rodrigues appears 3 times in our Fado list, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Fado
- Years
- 1955–1983
- Highest placing
- No. 1 in Fado
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Barco Negro
1955
Ranked No. 1 in Fado
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.
Estranha Forma de Vida
1965
Ranked No. 2 in Fado
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.