2003 - LABAREDA

Música: Baden Powell

Letra: Vinícius de Moraes

© TONGA (BMG MUSIC PUBLISHING BRASIL)

Oh, labareda te encostou 

Lá vai, lá va, labareda
Labareda te queimou
Lá vai, lá vai, labareda
Labareda te matou
Lá vai, lá vai, labareda
Oi, te matou de tanto amor
Lá vai, lá vai, labareda
Labareda
O teu nome é mulher
Quem te quer
Quer perder o coração
Rosa ardente
Bailarina da ilusão
Mata a gente
Mata de paixão
Labareda
Fogo que parece amor
Tua chama
É a chama de uma flor
Labareda
Quem te vê assim dançar
Em teus braços
Logo quer queimar

 

2003 - VIRGÍNIA RODRIGUES

Participação Especial: CAETANO VELOSO

Álbum “Mares profundos”

Deutsche Grammophon DG CD 474 196-2, Track 6. [Alemania]

Edge Music CD 474 196-2, Track 6. [Alemania]

Natasha Records CD B0000991-02, Track 6. [Brasil]

Phonographic Copyright (p): Deutsche Grammophon GmbH

Marketed By: Universal Classics Group

Manufactured By: Universal Classics Group

Distributed By: Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.

Copyright (c): Mario Cravo Neto

Créditos

Art Direction: Caetano Veloso

Executive Producer: Clarice Philigret, Joe Boyd, João Franklin Cavalcanti, Zezé Cortes

Producer, Arranged By: Luiz Brasil

Written-By: Baden Powell (tracks: 1 to 11), Paulo César Pinheiro (tracks: 9), Vinícius De Moraes (tracks: 1 to 8, 11) 

The diva of Salvador, Bahia returns

Virginia Rodrigues

Thursday, October 30, 2003

7:30 pm

"The new voice in Brazil." The New York Times

"The soul on display here is that of contemporary Brazil, embodied by Virginia Rodriques' extraordinary range and warm, solid voice." Rolling Stone

Until recently, Virginia Rodriques was the hidden star of Salvador, Bahia, the city considered to be the heart of Brazilian music in which African and Portuguese influences mingle. Newly found acclaim for her otherworldly contralto voice and her roots-oriented approach to traditional sambas has propelled her into the international limelight. With remarkable vocal tone and breathtaking range, she "sings with soulful spirituality and grooves with heavenly grace" (Entertainment Weekly).

Rodriques was discovered by Caetano Veloso, in her hometown, Salvador, Bahia, the heart of Brazilian music, as part of a theater production of the Olodum Theatre, a company which recruits performers from the poorest neighborhoods to create street theatre. It was this discovery that resulted in the recording and release of Sol Negro and introduced her to the international music community.

"…a singer with a stout angelic voice from the Brazilian state of Bahia. …[Rodriques] conjures a timeless, mystical Brazil where nature and spirit worlds meet and where the songs of the Afro-Brazilian pantheon share the purity of Gregorian chant." The New York Times

Tonight she will be performing selections from her new CD Mares Profundos, her first recording for Deutsche Grammophon's new label edge music. Virginia Rodrigues, her mentor Caetano Veloso, and producer/guitarist Luiz Brasil have chosen to revisit a classic song-cycle written by two Brazilian musical legends: the great poet Vinícius de Moraes ‚ a lyricist immortalized through his verses for bossa nova classics such as "A Garota De Ipanema" ("Girl from Ipanema") and "Desafinado" as well as the musical and film soundtrack of Orfeo Negro "Black Orpheus" and Baden Powell, a guitar virtuoso and composer who was more at home in samba than in bossa nova. Searching for new musical challenges, the two decided to go to Salvador/Bahia to explore the Afro-Brazilian culture which, at that time, was still almost unknown outside Brazil. The result was a collection of songs they called Afro-sambas and which they recorded in 1966 for Philips.

Virginia Rodrigues, who is proud of her Afro-Bahian and African roots and a fierce critic of Brazil's camouflaged racism, approaches these Afro-sambas in her own way and with enormous sensitivity.

A rare and beautiful treat for Northern audiences.