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Beyond the saudade. Living as a fado singer in Lisbon
Fado, the urban song of Lisbon, was inscribed in 2011 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Fado’s history partially mirrors that of 20th-century Portugal.
Its ill-famed origins linked to the alleys and taverns of the Alfama and Mouraria neighborhoods, contributed to creating a sort of mythology that fueled his poetics, and the best definitions of this musical genre are found in the verses of his songbook in which the word saudade, difficult to translate, continually echoes.
It is something akin to nostalgia and melancholy, but it also expresses a restlessness, a longing, a regret and more, which cannot be precisely defined outside the Portuguese cultural context.
But from the point of view of a fado singer, this risks appearing like an overused stereotype, and Rodrigo Costa Félix, who talks about his musical education and his way of feeling and interpreting fado, prefers to underline the poetic quality of the verses of the songs, often citing the charismatic figure of Amalia Rodrigues as an essential point of reference for his generation.
About Rodrigo Costa Félix
Rodrigo Costa Félix is one of the Fado references of his generation. He started singing Fado at the age of 17.
He made his professional debut when he was eighteen, at the São Caetano Restaurant (formerly Pátio das Cantigas) in Lapa - in Lisbon. There he hung out with great musicians and singers and really began to realise the importance of these places in any artist's apprenticeship.
He started participating in major Fado events throughout the country, mainly with one of the biggest names ever, João Braga.
His international career began in 1997 and he has been travelling around the world ever since.
He participated in the first record of the so-called new generation of Fado, the CD “Alma Nova” in 1994, but his first solo CD, “Fados D’Alma”, was recorded only in 2008. Read more
Episode's musical sources list
Rodrigo Costa Félix / O pai de todos os fados / Popular - Tiago Torres da Silva
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Fado das mágoas / João Ferreira-Rosa – Pedro Lafões
Amalia Rodrigues / Fado portugues / Amalia Rodrigues - José Regio
https://youtu.be/1YriVM8sC7M?si=NQKqkRjA_smiZBoa
Trovante / Travessa do poço dos negros / Luis Represas – João Gil
Pedro Caldeira Cabral / Fantasie Tinha o nome de saudade
Amália Rodrigues / Povo que lavas no rio / Pedro Homem de Mello – Joaquim Campos
https://youtu.be/CHn5eetWpFQ?si=hGNmVrw8-HyTXCCL
Amália Rodrigues ao vivo em Milano
https://youtu.be/UYD6hQQe6Go?si=MNr_f4UTgKWQ7d1b
Amália Rodrigues / Grandola vila Morena / Zeca Afonso
https://youtu.be/umbEOUYaxa4?si=tuxMWqund3C830OK
Miguel Carvalho on his book about Amalia
https://youtu.be/d8S8hSQvgds?si=BsRJ_ZkzV_3fnAuQ
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Amália / José Galhardo - Frederico Valério
Mariza / Lagrima / Amália Rodrigues – Carlos Gonçalves
https://youtu.be/5RK1qGWl6r0?si=pnSGpJ5GfxQaxWyR
Moment of Announcement of Fado as Intangible Heritage of Humanity
https://vimeo.com/groups/785262/videos/54319143
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Tinha o nome de saudade / João de Freitas – João Maria dos
Anjos
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Amigo aprendiz / Pd. Zezinho scj. – Tiago Bettencourt
Disclaimer
Mediterranean Intangible Heritage Soundscape is a podcast by Paolo Scarnecchia, produced by UNIMED, Mediterranean Universities Union. Musical works included in the Podcast are used for purpose of illustration for teaching, and not for commercial purposes.
Its ill-famed origins linked to the alleys and taverns of the Alfama and Mouraria neighborhoods, contributed to creating a sort of mythology that fueled his poetics, and the best definitions of this musical genre are found in the verses of his songbook in which the word saudade, difficult to translate, continually echoes.
It is something akin to nostalgia and melancholy, but it also expresses a restlessness, a longing, a regret and more, which cannot be precisely defined outside the Portuguese cultural context.
But from the point of view of a fado singer, this risks appearing like an overused stereotype, and Rodrigo Costa Félix, who talks about his musical education and his way of feeling and interpreting fado, prefers to underline the poetic quality of the verses of the songs, often citing the charismatic figure of Amalia Rodrigues as an essential point of reference for his generation.
About Rodrigo Costa Félix
Rodrigo Costa Félix is one of the Fado references of his generation. He started singing Fado at the age of 17.
He made his professional debut when he was eighteen, at the São Caetano Restaurant (formerly Pátio das Cantigas) in Lapa - in Lisbon. There he hung out with great musicians and singers and really began to realise the importance of these places in any artist's apprenticeship.
He started participating in major Fado events throughout the country, mainly with one of the biggest names ever, João Braga.
His international career began in 1997 and he has been travelling around the world ever since.
He participated in the first record of the so-called new generation of Fado, the CD “Alma Nova” in 1994, but his first solo CD, “Fados D’Alma”, was recorded only in 2008. Read more
Episode's musical sources list
Rodrigo Costa Félix / O pai de todos os fados / Popular - Tiago Torres da Silva
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Fado das mágoas / João Ferreira-Rosa – Pedro Lafões
Amalia Rodrigues / Fado portugues / Amalia Rodrigues - José Regio
https://youtu.be/1YriVM8sC7M?si=NQKqkRjA_smiZBoa
Trovante / Travessa do poço dos negros / Luis Represas – João Gil
Pedro Caldeira Cabral / Fantasie Tinha o nome de saudade
Amália Rodrigues / Povo que lavas no rio / Pedro Homem de Mello – Joaquim Campos
https://youtu.be/CHn5eetWpFQ?si=hGNmVrw8-HyTXCCL
Amália Rodrigues ao vivo em Milano
https://youtu.be/UYD6hQQe6Go?si=MNr_f4UTgKWQ7d1b
Amália Rodrigues / Grandola vila Morena / Zeca Afonso
https://youtu.be/umbEOUYaxa4?si=tuxMWqund3C830OK
Miguel Carvalho on his book about Amalia
https://youtu.be/d8S8hSQvgds?si=BsRJ_ZkzV_3fnAuQ
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Amália / José Galhardo - Frederico Valério
Mariza / Lagrima / Amália Rodrigues – Carlos Gonçalves
https://youtu.be/5RK1qGWl6r0?si=pnSGpJ5GfxQaxWyR
Moment of Announcement of Fado as Intangible Heritage of Humanity
https://vimeo.com/groups/785262/videos/54319143
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Tinha o nome de saudade / João de Freitas – João Maria dos
Anjos
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Amigo aprendiz / Pd. Zezinho scj. – Tiago Bettencourt
Disclaimer
Mediterranean Intangible Heritage Soundscape is a podcast by Paolo Scarnecchia, produced by UNIMED, Mediterranean Universities Union. Musical works included in the Podcast are used for purpose of illustration for teaching, and not for commercial purposes.
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By Paolo ScarnecchiaFado, the urban song of Lisbon, was inscribed in 2011 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Fado’s history partially mirrors that of 20th-century Portugal.
Its ill-famed origins linked to the alleys and taverns of the Alfama and Mouraria neighborhoods, contributed to creating a sort of mythology that fueled his poetics, and the best definitions of this musical genre are found in the verses of his songbook in which the word saudade, difficult to translate, continually echoes.
It is something akin to nostalgia and melancholy, but it also expresses a restlessness, a longing, a regret and more, which cannot be precisely defined outside the Portuguese cultural context.
But from the point of view of a fado singer, this risks appearing like an overused stereotype, and Rodrigo Costa Félix, who talks about his musical education and his way of feeling and interpreting fado, prefers to underline the poetic quality of the verses of the songs, often citing the charismatic figure of Amalia Rodrigues as an essential point of reference for his generation.
About Rodrigo Costa Félix
Rodrigo Costa Félix is one of the Fado references of his generation. He started singing Fado at the age of 17.
He made his professional debut when he was eighteen, at the São Caetano Restaurant (formerly Pátio das Cantigas) in Lapa - in Lisbon. There he hung out with great musicians and singers and really began to realise the importance of these places in any artist's apprenticeship.
He started participating in major Fado events throughout the country, mainly with one of the biggest names ever, João Braga.
His international career began in 1997 and he has been travelling around the world ever since.
He participated in the first record of the so-called new generation of Fado, the CD “Alma Nova” in 1994, but his first solo CD, “Fados D’Alma”, was recorded only in 2008. Read more
Episode's musical sources list
Rodrigo Costa Félix / O pai de todos os fados / Popular - Tiago Torres da Silva
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Fado das mágoas / João Ferreira-Rosa – Pedro Lafões
Amalia Rodrigues / Fado portugues / Amalia Rodrigues - José Regio
https://youtu.be/1YriVM8sC7M?si=NQKqkRjA_smiZBoa
Trovante / Travessa do poço dos negros / Luis Represas – João Gil
Pedro Caldeira Cabral / Fantasie Tinha o nome de saudade
Amália Rodrigues / Povo que lavas no rio / Pedro Homem de Mello – Joaquim Campos
https://youtu.be/CHn5eetWpFQ?si=hGNmVrw8-HyTXCCL
Amália Rodrigues ao vivo em Milano
https://youtu.be/UYD6hQQe6Go?si=MNr_f4UTgKWQ7d1b
Amália Rodrigues / Grandola vila Morena / Zeca Afonso
https://youtu.be/umbEOUYaxa4?si=tuxMWqund3C830OK
Miguel Carvalho on his book about Amalia
https://youtu.be/d8S8hSQvgds?si=BsRJ_ZkzV_3fnAuQ
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Amália / José Galhardo - Frederico Valério
Mariza / Lagrima / Amália Rodrigues – Carlos Gonçalves
https://youtu.be/5RK1qGWl6r0?si=pnSGpJ5GfxQaxWyR
Moment of Announcement of Fado as Intangible Heritage of Humanity
https://vimeo.com/groups/785262/videos/54319143
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Tinha o nome de saudade / João de Freitas – João Maria dos
Anjos
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Amigo aprendiz / Pd. Zezinho scj. – Tiago Bettencourt
Disclaimer
Mediterranean Intangible Heritage Soundscape is a podcast by Paolo Scarnecchia, produced by UNIMED, Mediterranean Universities Union. Musical works included in the Podcast are used for purpose of illustration for teaching, and not for commercial purposes.
Its ill-famed origins linked to the alleys and taverns of the Alfama and Mouraria neighborhoods, contributed to creating a sort of mythology that fueled his poetics, and the best definitions of this musical genre are found in the verses of his songbook in which the word saudade, difficult to translate, continually echoes.
It is something akin to nostalgia and melancholy, but it also expresses a restlessness, a longing, a regret and more, which cannot be precisely defined outside the Portuguese cultural context.
But from the point of view of a fado singer, this risks appearing like an overused stereotype, and Rodrigo Costa Félix, who talks about his musical education and his way of feeling and interpreting fado, prefers to underline the poetic quality of the verses of the songs, often citing the charismatic figure of Amalia Rodrigues as an essential point of reference for his generation.
About Rodrigo Costa Félix
Rodrigo Costa Félix is one of the Fado references of his generation. He started singing Fado at the age of 17.
He made his professional debut when he was eighteen, at the São Caetano Restaurant (formerly Pátio das Cantigas) in Lapa - in Lisbon. There he hung out with great musicians and singers and really began to realise the importance of these places in any artist's apprenticeship.
He started participating in major Fado events throughout the country, mainly with one of the biggest names ever, João Braga.
His international career began in 1997 and he has been travelling around the world ever since.
He participated in the first record of the so-called new generation of Fado, the CD “Alma Nova” in 1994, but his first solo CD, “Fados D’Alma”, was recorded only in 2008. Read more
Episode's musical sources list
Rodrigo Costa Félix / O pai de todos os fados / Popular - Tiago Torres da Silva
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Fado das mágoas / João Ferreira-Rosa – Pedro Lafões
Amalia Rodrigues / Fado portugues / Amalia Rodrigues - José Regio
https://youtu.be/1YriVM8sC7M?si=NQKqkRjA_smiZBoa
Trovante / Travessa do poço dos negros / Luis Represas – João Gil
Pedro Caldeira Cabral / Fantasie Tinha o nome de saudade
Amália Rodrigues / Povo que lavas no rio / Pedro Homem de Mello – Joaquim Campos
https://youtu.be/CHn5eetWpFQ?si=hGNmVrw8-HyTXCCL
Amália Rodrigues ao vivo em Milano
https://youtu.be/UYD6hQQe6Go?si=MNr_f4UTgKWQ7d1b
Amália Rodrigues / Grandola vila Morena / Zeca Afonso
https://youtu.be/umbEOUYaxa4?si=tuxMWqund3C830OK
Miguel Carvalho on his book about Amalia
https://youtu.be/d8S8hSQvgds?si=BsRJ_ZkzV_3fnAuQ
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Amália / José Galhardo - Frederico Valério
Mariza / Lagrima / Amália Rodrigues – Carlos Gonçalves
https://youtu.be/5RK1qGWl6r0?si=pnSGpJ5GfxQaxWyR
Moment of Announcement of Fado as Intangible Heritage of Humanity
https://vimeo.com/groups/785262/videos/54319143
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Tinha o nome de saudade / João de Freitas – João Maria dos
Anjos
Rodrigo Costa Félix / Amigo aprendiz / Pd. Zezinho scj. – Tiago Bettencourt
Disclaimer
Mediterranean Intangible Heritage Soundscape is a podcast by Paolo Scarnecchia, produced by UNIMED, Mediterranean Universities Union. Musical works included in the Podcast are used for purpose of illustration for teaching, and not for commercial purposes.