Music from Brazil

Garganta (throat) was the song wich launched Ana Carolina´s carreer. " My throat rasps when I don´t see you, it comes a mad desire of screaming... "

Ana Carolina -- Garganta - Clipe Oficial



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how about some gilberto gil?
esperando na janela or something like that

Alceu Valença from Recife, Pernambuco, great name of MPB.
Boa Viagem is a Recife´s beach. I had been there.

" I remember the beautiful girl of Boa Viagem beach
and the girl in the midst of the afternoon of a blue Sunday,
Blue was Belle du Jour, was the beauty of the afternoon
Her eyes blue like the afternoon, the afternoon of a blue Sunday "

La belle du jour - Alceu Valença



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I knew a LOT of musicians from Brazil when I was in music school. Even fell in love/lust with a ballet dancer from Brazil. Ahhh..the memories!

Yes, well remembered, Gilberto Gil, antoher great name of MPB. This is a version of the famous Bob Marley song, it was a tremendous success when it was launched. Bob Marley is the original, but this is one of those cases when the brazilian version was much creative and pleasant to hear.

Gilberto Gil - "Não chore mais" ("No woman, no cry") (1979)



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Gilberto Gil - Esperando na Janela



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thanks for that

Vinicius de Moraes was another great name of MPB with his romantic songs. In this song performed by his inseparable partner Toquinho we can see Toquinho´s great expertise in the guitar.

Vinicius de Moraes & Toquinho - A Rosa Desfolhada



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Sadness is endless
Happiness is not

Felicidade - Vinicius de Moraes



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Maria Creuza, heard in the last song, was a partner of Vinicius & Toquinho in many songs.
Now solo in this beautiful song.

Maria Creuza - Se o amor quiser voltar (1973)



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A song by Toquinho and Belchior, Small profile of a common citizen. A criticism about the mediocrity of life of the common citizen. Historic images of Rio, 1987.

Pequeno Perfil de Um Cidadão Comum



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great music
brutal passion
Espanol

Italiano

Ritchie was born in England and later came to live in Brazil. This song, sung in perfect Portuguese, is a classic romantic and the perfect declaration of love for a girl one have fallen in love.

" Venom girl
the world is too small
for both of us
Every corner I look at
I only see you "

RITCHIE menina veneno



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Another great success by Ritchie.

" In the middle of the night you call
I came as a fire to burn your bed
Don´t drown yourself in my kisses
I came slowly
Tomorrow I promise I will come back

Life is the art of knowledge
who want to know
have to live
I bring a new world to you "

Ritchie - Casanova (Clipe)



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Same song Casanova by Ritchie, used as overture to the TV novel Champagne. Excelent clip.

Abertura de CHAMPAGNE



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Excelent song by Zeca Baleiro.

" Baby I am so alone
let´s go to Babylon "

Zeca Baleiro - Babylon



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An extremely passionate song by Fagner, from Ceará. It is hard to appear a song so passionate like this one.

" Never has been a woman like you
In millions of years of solitude
My nights are blue again
My afternoons are golden of Summer "
...
"Who dreams about you wet the bed
Who loves you sleep
At the shadow of a volcano "

Fagner - A sombra de um vulcão (1987)



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A wonderful song by Caetano Veloso here performed by his sister Maria Bethania.

" A black nail tigerss
Iris colour of honey
A woman, a beauty
which happened to me
Rubbing the skin
of brown gold
of his body against mine
Told me that Evil is good
and Good is cruel. "

Maria Bethânia - Tigresa



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i love brasilian metal

Another Classic of MPB, a true hymn of love to Mother Earth. Composed by Chico Buarque and Milton Nascimento.

Here in the crystaline voice of the four sisters of Quarteto em Cy, the best interpretation and the best recording, but there is no direct link to the music, just scroll down the page below until the title. Worthwhile.


O CIO DA TERRA

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The Rut of the Earth

Composição: Milton Nascimento / Chico Buarque

Threshing wheat
Collect each wheat berry
Forging in the wheat the miracle of bread
and to fill of bread

Sever the cane
Collect the cane syrup
Stealing sugar cane sweetness of honey, besmirch of honey

Caress the earth
Know the wishes of the earth
Rut of earth, favorable season to fertilize the ground.

Beautiful.

Adriana Calcanhotto -- Pelos Ares - Clipe Oficial



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