Guitars, Whores and Sin: The World of the Fadista

The fadista Mariza in “Fados,” a film directed by Carlos Saura.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: March 6, 2009

If you want a sense of the glorious emotional excesses that permeate fado, the soul music of Portugal, you need only listen to the legendary fadista Amália Rodrigues, who tremulously immortalized singing whores, weeping guitars, ashes and fire, pain and sin. “All this exists,” she sang. “All this is pain. All this is fado.” More

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