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00:00 - Amália Rodrigues 03:38 - Mariza 07:28 - Mafalda Arnauth 11:02 - António Zambujo 15:08 - Raquel Tavares (excerpt of presentation) __ It was God __ Composition: Alberto Janes I don't know, no one knows Why I sing fado In this hurt tone Of pain and crying And in this torment All the suffering I feel that the soul Calms down inside In the verses I sing It was God Who gave light to the eyes Perfumed the roses He gave gold to the sun And silver to the moonlight It was God Who placed on my chest A rosary of feathers That I unravel And cry while singing And placed the stars in the sky And made space endless He gave mourning to the swallows Oh, and he gave me this voice If I sing I don't know what I sing Mix of happiness Longing, tenderness And maybe love But I know that singing I feel the same when there is heartbreak And the tears on our faces make us feel better It was God Who gave voice to the wind Light to the firmament And gave blue to the waves of the sea It was God Who He put it on my chest A rosary of feathers That I unravel And cry while singing He made the nightingale a poet He put the rosemary in the field He gave the flowers to spring Oh!, and he gave me this voice “Music made in Portugal” I just created this channel to promote national music, the Portuguese language and Portuguese-speaking culture. The repertoire selection represents a purely personal aesthetic choice... As I do not intend to earn any money from the videos, all benefits are monetized by the “copyright owners”.