José Cid clarifies his relationship with Amalia Rodriguez and pays “blame” for the controversy – Nacional

José Cid was offended by the controversy sparked on social media by his statements about Amalia Rodrigues, last October, to the magazine of the Alvalade Parish Council in Lisbon – “Amalia was never very friendly with me, because I sold more records on Valentim de Carvalho and she would never accept a younger person selling more. Amalia didn’t handle other people’s success well” – and she decided to make clear what she really thought about the fado legend.

It all started with a story he partially reproduced: “Amalia recorded a program for RTF with me and stayed at my house for four days. My mother was already a widow. I felt that there was a terrible collusion between them against me. I felt from afar that the two old ladies were conspiring against me [risos] “I behaved in a distracted way,” the 81-year-old musician said on Blitz’s Posto Emissor podcast, adding that even working with Amalia “did not attract” his mother, who claims she did not give him much praise for his work. Successful career..

“We recorded the program, where I was riding a horse around the church and singing Dr. Sebastião and Amalia on the steps of the church singing fado. And when Amalia said goodbye, she turned to me and didn’t say thank you, she said to me: ‘Look’ – that’s how she always addressed me -”Where would I have ended up if I had a mother like yours?. I replied: ‘Oh Amalia, it was impossible to go any further, she is the greatest singer in the world of her generation. Jose Cid added: “If this woman had been her mother and Amalia had said at the age of 17 that she was going to sing fado in Lisbon, she would have received two slaps and been locked in a room with chains.”

“It was a subtle way for me to say to my mother: ‘Now I’m the one who spoiled you.’ There was no hole in the ground to get into, because it was right.” Social media started saying I said bad things about Amalia, and I would never say that. I told a true story. I loved Amalia and she couldn’t see me, and I could write a book, but I won’t continue this argument“, concluded the musician who gained the status of a cult figure with his 1978 work “10,000 Years Between Venus and Mars”.