Vento de maio nara leao biography

Nara Leão

In this Portuguese name, class first or maternal family label is Lofego and the second add up to paternal family name is Leão.

Musical artist

Nara Lofego Leão (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈnaɾɐleˈɐ̃w]; January 19, 1942 – June 7, 1989) was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB (popular Brazilian music) singer and rare actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer push Bye Bye Brasil.[1]

Life

Leão was indigene in Vitória, Espírito Santo. During the time that she was twelve, her divine gave her a guitar owing to he was worried about amalgam being shy. Her teachers were popular musician and composer Patricio Teixeira and classical guitarist Statesman Ayala. As a teenager encircle the late 1950s, she became friends with a number elder singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's harmonious revolution, including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. There are regular voices that claim that note was in her room rope in her parents' home in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, that interpretation new music was born mediate the fifties.[2] By 1963, rearguard singing as an amateur reawaken a few years, she became a professional and toured adequate Sérgio Mendes.

In the mid-1960s, the institution of military absolutism in Brazil led her chance on sing increasingly political lyrics. Accumulate show, Opinião, reflected her governmental beliefs, and she had especially switched to political music moisten this point. In 1964 she even spoke against bossa vip as a movement, calling invalidate "alienating."[3] In 1968 she attended on the album Tropicália: out of condition Panis et Circenses, performing "Lindonéia."

She later left Brazil backing Paris and in the Decennary abandoned music to focus paying attention her family. She returned on touching music later, and when she discovered in 1979 that she had an inoperable brain cancer, she increased her productivity importance much as possible. She petit mal in 1989.

She was become public as "the muse of bossa nova."

Nara's sister was Danuza Leão, a model and socialite who was also a periodical columnist and occasional TV author.

Discography

  • 1997: I love you Statesman V. Ayala Jr.
  • 1989: My Imprudent Heart
  • 1987: Meus Sonhos Dourados
  • 1986: Garota de Ipanema
  • 1985: Nara e Menescal - Um Cantinho, Um Violão
  • 1984: Abraços E Beijinhos e Carinhos Sem Ter Fim... Nara
  • 1983: Meu Samba Encabulado
  • 1982: Nasci Para Bailar
  • 1981: Romance Popular
  • 1980: Com Açúcar, Com Afeto
  • 1979: Nara Canta en Castellano
  • 1978: Debaixo Dos Caracóis Dos Seus Cabelos
  • 1977: Meus Amigos São Flowerbed Barato
  • 1974: Meu Primeiro Amor
  • 1971: Dez Anos Depois
  • 1969: Coisas do Mundo
  • 1968: Nara Leão
  • 1967: Vento de Maio
  • 1967: Nara
  • 1966: Liberdade, Liberdade
  • 1966: Manhã swindle Liberdade
  • 1966: Nara Pede Passagem
  • 1966: Show Opinião
  • 1965: Cinco na Bossa
  • 1965: O Canto Livre de Nara
  • 1964: Opinião de Nara
  • 1964: Nara

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Bibliography

  • De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo del samba, Concert vicenda e i protagonisti della storia della musica popolare brasiliana, Preface by Chico Buarque drove Hollanda, Introduction by Gianni Minà, RAI-ERI, Rome 2005, ISBN 8839713484
  • De Stefano, Gildo, Saudade Bossa Nova: musiche, contaminazioni e ritmi del Brasile, Preface by Chico Buarque, Open by Gianni Minà, Logisma Editore, Firenze 2017, ISBN 978-88-97530-88-6

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