Amalia de la Vega
Amalia de la Vega was a Uruguayan singer.
Biography
She was born Maria Cecilia Martínez Fernández on January 19, 1919, in Melo, Uruguay. She started her career on radio Radio Carve and Radio El Espectador. She was best known for singing classical and popular music. Accompanied by the unforgettable pianist, Beba Ponce de Leon, she travelled through her native Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Chile and often vocalized poems from her favorite poets, Tabaré Regules, Juana de Ibarbourou and Fernán Silva Valdés. She recorded several 78 and 33 rpm records with record labels, such as, Sondor, Antar, Orfeo y Telefunken. She died on August 25, 2000.Discography
- A mi rancho
- Amalia de la Vega
- Mate amargo
- Amalia de la Vega
- El lazo de canciones
- Amalia la nuestra
- Mientras fui dichosa
- Manos ásperas
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Juana de América
- Poetas nativistas orientales