Amelia Muge

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Maria Amélia Salazar Muge (born February 7, 1952 in Maputo , Mozambique ) is a Portuguese singer , instrumentalist , composer and songwriter .

life and work

She was born in 1952 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), the capital of what was then the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Her father, who was interested in culture, encouraged Amélia with piano lessons, dance lessons and theater groups. The later important protest singer José Afonso was one of her teachers and had a special influence on her. After Mozambique gained independence in 1975, she moved with her family to Portugal, where she studied art history and history (according to other sources, design and painting). Influenced by her acquaintance with Júlio Pereira , she discovered the traditional music of Portugal for herself. She worked with Pereira on various albums and went on tour with his group.

She released her first own single in 1992 with the single Múgica , produced by Antonio José Martins. The record was very well received in Portuguese universities. Another work, created with the help of José Mário Branco , with whom she worked in 1995, was the album in memory of José Afonso Maio Maduro Maio .

Their music is a mixture of tradition and innovation. Starting from Fado and traditional Portuguese and African music, she added modern elements. She used both traditional instruments and modern technologies for this. She related texts by authors of the Portuguese language and wrote texts herself. Among her inspirers are Fernando Pessoa , Cesário Verde and José Saramago, as well as older poets. In 2009 she contributed an exclusive piece of music in many different fragments to the audio book radio play project Um Estranho em Goa , based on the novel by José Eduardo Agualusa .

She wrote texts for Cristina Branco , composed a. a. for Mafalda Arnauth and Camané and performed with international artists such as Ray Lema , Carlo Rizzo and Lucilla Galeazzi .

Discography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Archipelagos (Passages)
  PT 24 09/2018 (1 week)
  • Múgica (1992)
  • Todos os Dias (1994)
  • Maio Maduro Maio (1995)
  • Taco a taco (1998)
  • Novas vos Trago (1998)
  • A Monte (2002)
  • Não Sou Daqui (2007)

literature

  • Amélia Muge: Uma Autora - 202 Canções , Caracter Editora, Rio de Mouro 2010 ( ISBN 978-989-835-601-7 )
  • Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, L – P : 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, p. 832f ( ISBN 978-989-644-108-1 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, LP : 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, p. 832f ( ISBN 978-989-644-108-1 )
  2. ^ Biography on Tropical Music (German), accessed December 12, 2013
  3. ↑ Chart sources: PT
personal data
SURNAME Muge, Amelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muge, Maria Amélia Salazar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese singer of Mozambican origin
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Maputo , Mozambique