Madredeus is a Portuguese band. Their music combines traditional Portuguese music (many times erroneously associated with the subgenre of Fado) with influences of modern folk music. The lyrics are often melancholic and related to the sea or travelling or absence, continuing a tradition of songs that dates back to Medieval times (with obvious relations to "cantigas de amigo" among others). The lead vocalist Teresa Salgueiro left the band in 2007 for a solo career.

Music Translation

Maredeus - O Sonho (The Dream)

Who tells
a dream that dreamed
does not tells all that found
To tell a dream is forbidden

I dreamed
a dream with love
and a window and a flower
a water fountain and my friend

And there was nothing else...
just us, the light, and nothing else...
There lived love

Love,
That I bring in secret
a dream that will not tell
and each day is more meaningful
love,
I got love well hidden
in a dream that I can not tell
and always keep with me

 

 

"Amália Hoje" (Amália Today) is an album released on April 27, 2009, by the Portuguese pop project "Hoje" (today), led by musician Nuno Gonçalves. Was presented at the Belém Cultural Centre on April 1, 2009, the year

on which completed a decade over the death of the diva of fado.
"Amalia Hoje" presents itself as an album of fado of Amalia Rodrigues in the light of current pop sound.
The debut single was the theme "Gaivota" (Seagull), with the singing voice of Sonia Tavares leading voice of the Portuguese band "The Gift".
Amália Hoje was described as "an epic album, very organic, but heavy in terms of production," as featured recordings in London with the London Session Orchestra and was mixed in Dublin and Madrid.

"Gaivota" (Seagull) - Lyrics Translation

If a seagull would come
Bring me the sky of Lisbon
In the drawing I would do,
In that sky where the look
It's a wing that does not fly,
Falters and falls into the sea.

What a perfect heart
would beat on my chest,
My love, in your hand
In that hand in which fit it
Perfectly my heart.

If a Portuguese sailor,
Wanderer of the seven seas
Whoever knows the first
To tell me what to invent,
If a shiny new look
In my gaze would tye up.

What a perfect heart
Would die in my chest,
My love in your hand
In this hand where perfect
Beated my heart.

(2x)
What a perfect heart
would beat on my chest,
My love, in your hand
In that hand in which fit it
Perfectly my heart. (3x)

 

 

Xutos & Pontapés are a Portuguese rock band, who got together in Almada, Portugal in 1978, 4 years after the Carnation Revolution. They started off in the local punk rock scene and set the trend – singing rock tunes in Portuguese. After 3 d

ecades of studio and live albums, Xutos & Pontapés continue to be considered Portugal's top rock band influencing new generations of Portuguese bands. (in Wikipedia)

Translation of the song
Homem do Leme (Steersman)

Alone in the night
a boat heads where it goes.
A light shines in the darkness straight ahead
overshadows the rest.

And more than a wave, more than a tide...
They tried to arrest him to impose him a faith...
But drifting at will, breaking longing,
goes who have no fear, goes the steersman...

And a desire to laugh, rises from the depths of the being.
And a willingness to go, traveling the world and leave,
life is always to lose...

On the seabed
lie the others, those who remained there.
On gray days
there they found eternal rest.

And more than a wave, more than a tide...
They tried to arrest him, impose him a faith...
But drifting at will, breaking the nostalgia,
goes whom have no fear, goes the steersman...

And a laugh, rises from the depths of the being.
And a willingness to go, traveling the world and leave,
life is always to lose...

At the bottom horizon
blowing the murmur where it goes.
At the bottom of time
flees the future, is too late ...

And a laugh from the depths of being is born.
And a willingness to go, traveling the world and leave,
life is always to lose ...

 

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Amália Rodrigues, was a Portuguese singer and actress. She was known as the Rainha do Fado ("Queen of Fado") and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. She was one of the most important figures in the genre's development,and enjoyed a 50-year recording and stage career. Amália' performances and choice of repertoire pushed fado's boundaries and helped redefine it and reconfigure it for her and subsequent generations. In effect, Amália wrote the rulebook on what fado could be and on how a female fadista — or fado singer — should perform it, to the extent that she remains an unsurpassable model and an unending source of repertoire for all those who came afterwards. Amália enjoyed an extensive international career between the 1950s and the 1970s, although in an era where such efforts were not as easily quantified as today. (in Wikipedia)

Estranha Forma de vida (strange way of life) - Lyrics translation

It was by God's will
I live in this anxiety.
That all my woes are mine,
That is all my longing.
It was by God's will.

What a strange way of life
Has this heart of mine:
Lives by lost form;
Who would give you the privilege?
What a strange way of life.

Independent heart
Heart that I do not command:
Live lost between us,
Stubbornly bleeding,
Independent heart.

I do not accompany no more:
Stop, stop beating.
If you do not know where you are going,
Why you stubborn to run,
I do not follow you no more.