Maximiano de Sousa
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Maximiano de Sousa |
| Also known as | Max |
| Born | 20 January 1918 |
| Origin | Madeira, Portugal |
| Died | 29 May 1980 (aged 62) |
| Genres | Fado |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Actor |
| Instrument | Vocals |
Maximiano de Sousa (20 January 1918, in Funchal, Madeira – 29 May 1980) was a Portuguese Fado singer.[1] Max was one of the most popular Fado singers from the 1940s until well after his death in 1980.
Personal life
[edit]Maximiano de Sousa, known to most people as Max, was a Madeiran (Portuguese: madeirense), born in Funchal in 1918. It was here where his career started. He was a tailor, and even after becoming an artist, he long maintained that profession.
In 1936 he began working at night in a hotel bar in Funchal as a singer and continued to work as a tailor during the day. In 1957, he left for the United States where he remained for two years, afterward he toured Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Brazil, and Argentina.
Selected discography
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- Noites da Madeira/Bailinho da Madeira (78, VC, 1949)
- Bailinho da Madeira/Noites da Madeira (Single, Decca/VC, 1956)
- A Mula da Cooperativa / A Coisa / O Magala / O Homem do Trombone (Columbia)
- Porto Santo
- 31
- Sinal da Cruz
- Pomba Branca, Pomba Branca/Quando a Dor Bateu à Porta (Single, Decca/VC, 1974)
- As Bordadeira
- Casei com uma Velha
- Júlia Florista
- Maria Rapaz
- Maria tu tens a mania
- Mas sou fadista
- Mula da Cooperativa
- Nem ás paredes confesso
- Noite
- O Magala
- Pomba Branca
- Porto Santo
- Rosinha dos Limões
- Saudades da Ilha
- Sinal da Cruz
- Vielas de Alfama
References
[edit]- ^ Richard Elliott -Fado and the Place of Longing: "Loss, Memory and the City " 2017 - 1351567314 Page 66 Maximiano de Sousa (commonly known as Max) in the middle of the twentieth century and revisited at the start of the twenty-first by Mariza on her album Fado Curvo (2003). The song hymns the eponymous alleyways of the ancient Alfama ...
