"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)

 

 

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.