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yes i am familiar with the genre and with Mariza, she is perhaps the leading Fado performer now, it is not saudade but has many elements of a spiritual quality, very appealing for its depth of feelings...thank you...PK
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To think that 60 years ago fado was thought of as an almost-exclusively male genre; then along came Amalia Rodrigues. Now we have Mariza, by whom I am totally captivated.
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been there; you spurred me to go back and go over this oldie... http://allpoetry.com/poem/3459826 thanks... and nice foray into that language (I hope you have more luck with it than Burns did with English...! )
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Lovely piece, performer, and music! Wish I had an inkling on the language...
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It is fairly simple Portuguese. With the help of a dictionary I hazard the following translation (where you see an asterisk please refer to a comment at the bottom:
Trago um fado no meu canto
Canto a noite até ser dia
Do meu povo trago pranto
No meu canto a Mouraria
Tenho saudades de mim
Do meu amor, mais amado
Eu canto um país sem fim
O mar, a terra, o meu fado
Meu fado, meu fado, meu fado, meu fado
De mim só me falto eu
Senhora da minha vida
Do sonho, digo que é meu
E dou por mim já nascida
Trago um fado no meu canto
Na minh'alma vem guardado
Vem por dentro do meu espanto
A procura do meu fado
Meu fado, meu fado, meu fado, meu fado
I bring fado* in my song
Singing from night until day
Bringing tears from my people
In my song, Mouraria**
I am nostalgic for myself***
My love, most beloved
I sing a country without end
The sea, the earth, my fate*
My destiny*, my destiny, my destiny, my destiny
I miss only myself
Lady of my life
The dream which I say is mine
And I find I am already born
I bring fado in my song
In my soul, it is saved
It comes from within my astonishment
The search for my fate
My destiny, my destiny, my destiny, my destiny
* "Fado" has treble meanings in this song. It is, first of all, this style of singing. Secondly, it is a contraction of another word, which doesn't have a direct translation into English, but means a combination of loneliness, wistfulness, nostalgia for things lost in the past. Thirdly, it can mean fate or destiny.
** The "Moorish Quarter" of Lisbon.
*** The word "Saudades" in this line, is the word which philologists believe is the origin of the word "fado". See * above.
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Oh wow! Thanks so much for this. Your voice is amazing and I love your short hair. I also didn’t know you spoke Portuguese. “That’s my sister!”
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I wish!
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NICE --- music ain't bad either!!! ------
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