Vento de maio nara leao biography
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Nara Leão
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Lofego and the second or paternal family name is Leão.
Musical artist
Nara Lofego Leão (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈnaɾɐleˈɐ̃w]; January 19, – June 7, ) was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB (popular Brazilian music) singer and sporadisk actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of Bye Bye Brasil.[1]
Life
[edit]Leão was born in Vitória, Espírito Santo. When she was twelve, her father gave her a guitar since he was worried about her being shy. Her teachers were popular musician and composer Patricio Teixeira and classical guitarist Solon Ayala. As a teenager in the late s, she became friends with a number of singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's musical revolution, including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. There are even voices that claim that it was in her room in her
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Nara Leao "Nara" (box set) (Polygram, )
Wow. Let's start here If you're a Leao fan (or a potential fan) you might want to consider picking up this amazing CD box set, which collects Leao's first fourteen albums (reviewed below), along with an additional CD's worth of rarities. Each disc also includes a rare track or two, such as Nara singing in Spanish or French, and reproductions of the original liner notes, along with new production notes. These records have been nearly impossible to find for decades, and their re-release is a wonderful blessing for fans of Leao and modern Brazilian pop. Great sound quality, handsome packging, and amazingly, thoroughly beautiful music. The albums reissued include: "Nara" (), "Opinao De Lara" (), "O Show Do Opinao - Ao Vivo" (), "O Canto Livre De Nara" (), "5 Na Bossa" (with Edu Lobo/Tamba Trio, ), "Nara Pede Passagem" (), "Manha De Liberdade" (), "Vento De Maio" (), "Nara" (), "Nara Leao" (from ), "Coisas Do Mundo" (), "10 Anos Depois" (),
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Nara Leão, the Musa da Bossa Nova (Bossa Nova's Muse, as she is affectionately known), was a prominent figure in bossa nova. She didn't restrict herself as a bossa nova singer, though, and was one of the first artists to engage in the movement later known as "canção de protesto" (protest song), an artistic movement which denounced military dictatorship in Brazil. She launched the careers of such composers/interpreters as Chico Buarque, Zé Keti, Martinho da Vila, Edu Lobo, Paulinho da Viola, and Fagner. An international performer in spite of her short, uneducated voice, she left an expressive discography even though death caught her by surprise at such a precocious age. When she was a year old, she and her family left Vitória for Rio. In , she took her first violão classes with Solon Ayala and Patrício Teixeira, and then with Roberto Menescal and Carlos Lyra. As an amateur, she participated in the first university presentations where bossa nova was coming together as an organized mov