Maximiano de Sousa (20 January 1918, in

Funchal Funchal () officially Funchal City (), is the capital, largest city and a Municipality (Portugal), municipality in Portugal's Madeira, Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it ...

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– 29 May 1980) was a Portuguese

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singer.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 ... Max was one of the most popular Fado singers from the 1940s until well after his death in 1980.

Personal life

Maximiano de Sousa, known to most people as Max, was a Madeiran (Portuguese: madeirense), born in

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

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where he remained for two years, afterward he toured

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, South Africa,

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, and

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Selected discography

(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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sousa, Maximiano De Portuguese fado singers 20th-century Portuguese male singers 1980 deaths 1918 births People from Funchal