Nana Caymmi is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian singer.

Caymmi was born in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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, the daughter of Dorival Caymmi

Dorival Caymmi

Dorival Caymmi was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years beginning in 1933...

 and Stella Maris. Her first appearance on record was on her father's album Acalanto. She married Venezuela

Venezuela

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n doctor Gilberto Aponte Paoli and moved there in 1959. She and her husband divorce

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d in 1966, at which time she moved back to Rio. At this time she became involved with the Tropicalia movement; she became romantically involved with Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

. She sang "Saveiros" at the IFIC song festival in 1966, and won first place despite boos from the crowd (who preferred Gal Costa

Gal Costa

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

's rendition of Gil's "Minha Senhora").

Caymmi became a controversial figure, not at home in the Tropicalia scene nor in the protest song

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 movement. Only marginally successful, she found work singing in Portuguese language

Portuguese language

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 nightclubs outside of Brazil in South America. In the 1980s, she recorded several albums for EMI

EMI

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, and appeared in the 1983 documentary Bahia de Todos os Sambas. In the 1990s she became more successful in the mainstream with her album Bolero, which was her first of several gold albums. In 1995 and 1998 she was named Best Female Singer of the Year by the APCA.
In 2010 French director Georges Gachot released a documentary film Sonata about Nana Caymmi.

Discography

• Acalanto (1965)
• Nana (1967)
• Ponta de areia (1975)
• Renascer (1976)
• Atrás da porta (1977)
• Se queres saber (1977)
• Contrato de separação (1979)
• Mudança dos ventos (1980)
• E a gente nem deu nome (1981)
• Voz e suor (1983)
• Chora Brasileira (1985)
• Bolero (1993)
• A noite do meu bem: As canções de Dolores Duran (1994)
• Série brilhantes (1995)
• Alma serena (1996)
• No coração do rio (1997)
• Resposta ao tempo (1998)
• Sangre de mi alma (2000)
• Desejo (2001)
• Duetos (2003)
• Para Caymmi, de Nana, Dori e Danilo: 90 anos (2004)
• Até Pensei (2005)
• Quem Inventou o Amor (2007)