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Argentina Santos
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Argentina Santos (Maria Argentina Pinto dos Santos, Mouraria, Lisbon, Portugal, 6 February 1924 - 18 November 2019) was a Portuguese fado singer, considered one of the last divas. Argentina Santos, since 1950 at the head of her restaurant “Parreirinha de Alfama”, was born in Lisbon, in the Mouraria quarter. Unlike other renowned women singers who at very young age already sang Fado in public, Argentina Santos only started her artistic career after the opening of the restaurant, where she went to work as a cook, 24 years old. After leaving the kitchen, Argentina Santos walked round the tables, always asked to sing a Fado. Her answer became a legend: “I’m here to cook for my clients”. At “Parreirinha de Alfama”, Argentina Santos sang with many fado singers who marked the History of Fado in Portugal: Berta Cardoso, Lucília do Carmo, Alfredo Marceneiro, Celeste Rodrigues, Mariana Silva, Natércia da Conceição, Natália Bizarro, Helena Tavares, Maria da Fé, Leonor Santos, Beatriz da Conceição, Fernanda Maria – who started her career at “Parreirinha de Alfama” –, Flora Pereira, Júlio Peres, among many others. Thanks to the authenticity of her interpretations and to a very personal style, she immediately imposed herself as one of the most gifted and promising Fado singers of her time, becoming since then, for the experts and melomaniacs of Fado, a trustworthy interpreter of the Song, in the line of women singers of the past. The Fado songs “As Duas Santas” (The two Holy Women) and
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