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Celeste Rodrigues

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Portuguese singer (1923–2018)

Person · Open Library

Works
2

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  • Happy Curls
  • Studies on Variation in Portuguese

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Portugal
Active from
1920-07-23
Active to
1999-10-06
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,478
Total plays
24,161

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Celeste Rodrigues (Maria Celeste Rebordão Rodrigues, Fundão, Portugal, 14 March 1923 – 1 August 2018) was a Portuguese fadista (fado singer) and the younger sister of Amália Rodrigues. After Carnation Revolution in 1974, she went to Canada for six months, where her marriage to actor Varela Silva ended in divorce. She commuted between her two residences in Lisbon and Washington, where her two daughters live. Although she did not achieve nearly as comprehensive a career as her sister <a href="ht

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Celeste
Family name
Rodrigues
Gender
female
Citizenship
Portugal
Place of birth
Fundão
Place of death
Lisbon
Occupation
singer
Languages spoken
Portuguese
Native language
Portuguese
Genre
fado
Instrument
voice
Image
Crodrigues.jpg
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cause of death
stroke
date of birth
1923-03-14
date of death
2018-08-01
Commons category
Celeste Rodrigues
birth name
Maria Celeste Rebordão Rodrigues
start of work period
1951-00-00
name in native language
Maria Celeste Rebordão Rodrigues
manner of death
natural causes
Sources (5)

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