Lucilia do Carmo

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Lucília Nunes Ascensão do Carmo (born November 4, 1919 in Portalegre , † November 19, 1998 in Cascais ) was a Portuguese fado singer and mother of the fado singer Carlos do Carmo .

Life

She came to Lisbon with her family at the age of five, where she sang in public for the first time on April 1, 1937. She gained popularity through her appearances on the radio and in the fado bars of Lisbon. She made unusually little recordings.

Her tours took her through Brazil and to Mozambique , the Portuguese colony at the time , before she and her husband bought a fado restaurant in 1947, which they called O Faia shortly afterwards and which is still owned by the family today. It is one of the series of eateries where fado flourished in Lisbon in the 1940s to 1960s. The most influential fadista of his time, Alfredo Marceneiro , one of her admirers and frequent guest singer at Faia , said of her: "For me she is a classic of Fado."

At 60, she gave up singing. She developed Alzheimer's disease and died at the age of 79. The wake was held at the Fado Museum in Lisbon's Alfama district , and on November 20, 1998, she was buried in the Prazeres Cemetery.

Discography

  • Fado Lisboa: an evening at the "Faia" (1974) with her son Carlos do Carmo
  • Lucilia do Carmo (1978)
  • O melhor de Lucilia do Carmo (1990)
  • Fado em Tom Maior (1995) Collection of recordings with her son
  • Maria Madalena (1997)
  • Biografias do Fado (1998)

besides other, secondary publications

literature

  • Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da música em Portugal no século XX, AC 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010 (page 245/246)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ from the CD booklet "Lucília do Carmo"
  2. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/artist/lucilia-do-carmo/discography/compilations/438632#/artist/lucilia-do-carmo/discography/albums/438632?sort=date&page=1
personal data
SURNAME Carmo, Lucilia do
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carmo, Lucília Nunes Ascensão do (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese fado singer and mother of fado singer Carlos do Carmo
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Portalegre
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1998
Place of death Cascais