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"DM" <dmdmdm@dmills.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in 
news:4ace4f89$0$2484$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk: 

> 
> "Mark P. Nelson" <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
> news:Xns9C9B6AF261FE7mpndisorg@188.40.43.213... 
>> Here's an OT question for the day: in the mini-series, Tinker, Tailor, 
>> Soldier, Spy, there's a scene in a hotel bar in Lisbon, when Ricky Tarr 
>> is checking out Boris. There's a wonderful singer in the scene; does 
>> anybody know who she is and what she is singing? (Yes, I tried Google.) 
> 
> She's not credited at the end of the tv prog 
> 
> but found this possibility 
> 
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amalia-Rodrigues-Live-Japan-DVD/dp/B000I2ISOA 
> 
> 

Woo! It does look somewhat like her, and I did think it was probably 
Portuguese (a: since it's supposed to take place in Lisbon, and b: I know 
a lot of Brazilians and I can't make out a word they say to each other 
either, which is unlike me, as I'm generally good with languages). 

Is it her? The photos I can find are not good enough to match (no dates
but this woman seems older than Amalia Rodrigues would have been in 1979), 
and my web digging skills can't prove it either way. 

Thanks a lot for your trouble; that's the closest I've got yet. 

Mark. 

-- Verbing weirds language--Calvin