Amélia Muge
Encyclopedia
Amélia Muge is a Mozambiqua
-born Portuguese
singer, instrumentalist, composer and lyricist. She is noted for her fine fado
voice and poetic lyrics.
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
-born Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
singer, instrumentalist, composer and lyricist. She is noted for her fine fado
Fado
Fado is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar, Rui Vieira Nery, states that "the only reliable information on the history of Fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best...
voice and poetic lyrics.
Discography
- Múgica (UPAV, 1992)
- Todos os Dias (Sony, 1994)
- Maio Maduro Maio - with João Afonso and José Mário Branco(Sony, 1995)
- Taco a taco (Polygram, 1998)
- Novas vos Trago (1998)
- A Monte (Vachier, 2002)
- Não Sou Daqui (Vachier, 2007)
- Uma Autora, 202 Canções (Character Ediora, 2009)