Talk:Amália Rodrigues

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What is the story behind Don Byas and Amalia Rodrigues?? There must be a good story behind that??

[edit] Problems with article

  • "She was unquestionably the most important figure in the genre’s development" - she gets half a sentence on the fado article which makes no mention of her importance.
  • "Amália also remains the sole truly international star to have ever come out of Portugal" - unless the editor is trying to say truly international 'fado' start then this is an outrageous claim.
  • I went thru & fixed all the familiar firstname references to the more formal lastname references per wp style. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) --LQ 21:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • The claims are typical hyperbole. Amalia was very important, but Portugal as a country and Fado as a culture are too big for a single person to be considered all there is to them. The closing mention of other artists betrays having been written by someone whose mind was concentrated on a very small part and period of portuguese culture.
  • The portuguese standard is to use the first name for females when just one name is used. It's very strange for portuguese ears to relate the surname to a female antecedent. Nelly Furtado's article sounds strange for much the same reason. It has nothing to do with sexism, the underlying motive may be that surnames are usually masculine in gender. Males are usually only referred to by a single name (either the first name or a surname) if that name is not very common. Yes, the text is english and as such english rules apply, but I wonder if they are universally applicable, especially when one begins to drift out of european space. She was a widely known person, and it would be best to use the same rule used by the community at large when it referred to her. That would be 'Amalia' in all the portuguese spesking countries, I'm not sure how it would be internationally.85.240.124.131 (talk) 23:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)