Marina Correia Lima is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. She is a prominent female pioneer of Brazilian rock music.

Career

From the age of five to twelve, Marina lived in the United States

United States

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 and learned to read first in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and then in Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

. She gained attention in 1977 when popular singer Gal Costa

Gal Costa

Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...

 recorded her song "Meu Doce Amor". Other songs she wrote were inspired by her brother's poetry.

Her debut album, Simples Como Fogo (1979) (which, as with all of her 80s albums was released simply under the moniker 'Marina') would influence the coming Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese.-Overview:Rock entered the Brazilian music scene in 1956, with the screening of the film The Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which would later be covered in Portuguese by Nora...

 scene in the 1980s. She released many albums before achieving major success with the 1984 album Fullgás, which included the hit singles "Fullgás", "Me Chama" (written by Lobão

Lobão

Lobão, born João Luiz Woerdenbag Filho is a Brazilian rock and MPB singer and composer. He also plays the drums and guitar.Lobão is better known in Brazil for his 1980s hits, specially "Me Chama"...

), "Veneno" and "Mesmo que Seja Eu".

In 1986 she released the first home video concert by a Brazilian artist, "Todas Ao Vivo" which chronicled the tour in support of her 1985 album "Todas" and included several of her previous hits as well as backstage interviews. The late 80s saw Marina once again at the top of the radio charts with the song "Uma Noite e Meia", written by and sung in partnership with her bassist, Renato Rocketh, whose own career was launched because of the song.

In the 1990s Marina started showing a more private side of her personality in her songs. The albums Marina Lima (after which she started going by her full name) and O Chamado (released shortly after her father's death), released in 1991 and 1993 respectively, are the most critically praised (and two of the most commercially successful) of her career. O Chamado was released a year later in the United States as "A Tug On The Line", including English versions of some of the songs on the original edition plus some tracks in Portuguese. It's the only album she ever released in the international market.

In 1996, a year after the release of Abrigo (a cover album), Marina became clinically depressed, cancelled her upcoming tour and released two albums (96's Registros a Meia-Voz and 1998's Pierrot do Brasil) which, despite musically crafty and praised for having some of Marina's best lyrics, went by scarcely noticed and surprised for showing a waning, less than confidence voice, which shocked some of her fans. The singer, who at the time refused to admit to her condition, blamed her vocal problems on a physical condition which impaired the range of her vocal chords.

Later on, in 1997, she guest appeared at Titãs

Titãs

Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Their best-known line up is the one in the album Cabeça Dinossauro : Nando Reis , Branco Mello , Marcelo Fromer , Arnaldo Antunes , Tony Bellotto , Paulo Miklos , Charles Gavin and Sérgio Britto...

' successful live album Acústico MTV

Titãs - Acústico MTV

Acústico MTV is the second live album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs. The album features Arnaldo Antunes , Liminha, Marisa Monte, Fito Páez, Jimmy Cliff, Rita Lee and Marina Lima as guests artists...

, singing the song "Cabeça Dinossauro".

Marina finally returned to prominence with the release of 2003's Acústico MTV (the Brazilian equivalent of the MTV Unplugged series), which spawned two top 10 hit singles (the new track "Sugar" and a reworked version of her 1984 hit "Fullgas") and became her best selling album in over a decade. The DVD (the first of her career) was also one of the year's best sellers. Her most recent album is 2006's Lá Nos Primórdios. Marina is currently working on the editing of the show's DVD, to be released in early 2009.

Discography

• 2006 Lá Nos Primórdios
• 2003 Acústico MTV
• 2001 Setembro
• 2000 Síssi Na Sua - Ao Vivo
• 1998 Pierrot do Brasil
• 1996 Registros à Meia-Voz
• 1995 Abrigo
• 1993 O Chamado
• 1991 Marina Lima
• 1989 Próxima Parada
• 1987 Virgem
  Virgem
  -Tracklisting :#Pseudo Blues #Zerando #Preciso Dizer Que Eu te Amo #Hearts #Prestes a Voar #Virgem...
  
  
• 1986 Todas Ao Vivo
• 1985 Todas
  Todas (album)
  Todas is an album by singer-songwriter Marina Lima released in 1985. It was followed in version, by the successor album: "Todas Ao Vivo" .-Tracklisting:...
  
  
• 1984 Fullgás
  Fullgás
  "Fullgás" is an album by Brazilian singer Marina Lima, released in 1984. It contains hits of her career such as "Fullgás," "Me Chama", "Mesmo Que Seja Eu", "Veneno" and "Pé Na Tábua"-Tracklisting:#Fullgás...
  
  
• 1982 Desta Vida, Desta Arte
• 1981 Certos Acordes
• 1981 Olhos Felizes
• 1979 Simples Como Fogo

External links

• Official website