Celeste Rodrigues
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Happy Curls
- Studies on Variation in Portuguese
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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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Celeste
- Family name
- Rodrigues
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Fundão
- Place of death
- Lisbon
- Sibling
- Amália Rodrigues
- 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
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