Amélia Muge

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

Life and work

She was born 1952 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo ), the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique. My father encouraged culturally interested Amélia with piano lessons, dance lessons and theater groups. The later became renowned protest singer José Afonso was one of her teachers, and had a particular influence on them. After the independence of Mozambique in 1975, she moved with her ​​family to Portugal, where she studied art history and history (according to other sources of design and painting ). Influenced by the acquaintance with Júlio Pereira, she discovered the traditional music of Portugal itself. She worked with Pereira together on various albums and went on tour with his group.

Their first single she released in 1992 with the single Múgica, produced by Antonio José Martins. The panel found a great echo 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 blend of tradition and renewal. Starting from Fado and traditional Portuguese and African music, they added a modern design. She used both for traditional instruments as well as modern technologies. You related texts by authors Portuguese tongue and wrote the lyrics themselves under their inspirers are Fernando Pessoa, Cesário Verde and to name José Saramago and older poet. In 2009, she was wearing an exclusive piece of music in many different fragments in audiobook audio book project To Estranho em Goa, from the novel by José Eduardo Agualusa.

You texted among others for Cristina Branco, composed among others for Mafalda Arnauth and Camané and has performed with international artists such as Ray Lema, Carlo Rizzo or Lucilla Galeazzi.

Discography

(Selection)

• Múgica (1992 )
• Maio Maduro Maio (1995 )
• Taco a taco (1998)
• Novas vos Trago (1998)
• A Monte (2002)
• Não sou Daqui (2007)