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Maximiano de Sousa
Background information
Birth nameMaximiano de Sousa
Also known asMax
Born20 January 1918
OriginMadeira, Portugal
Died29 May 1980(1980-05-29) (aged 62)
GenresFado
Occupation(s)Singer, Actor
InstrumentVocals

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

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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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(incomplete)

  • 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

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  1. ^ 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 ...