Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira
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Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, better known as Simone, is a Brazil
ian singer and a major performer of Música Popular Brasileira
(MPB) who has recorded more than 31 albums.
as the seventh daughter in a family of nine children. During her teenage years she was a professional basketball
player and moved to São Paulo
to become a member of the women's national basketball team
. She studied in Santos (São Paulo)
, majoring in Physical Education
.
teacher Elodir Barontini invited her to sing in a pre-schedule dinner with Odeon
´s marketing manager. At the end of this meeting, specially scheduled for the performance, came an offer of a contract to record not one but four albums at once. Her eponymous debut album was recorded in October 1972 at low cost and with a few musicians, conducted by José Briamonte. This inaugural edition circulated only for friends, relatives and artists; ten years later it would be re-edited and with a different cover. By the 20 March 1973, Simone was launched for the press
in a closed meeting at the Hilton Hotel, in São Paulo; later on she would appear for the first time ever on a TV program, for Tv Bandeirantes. Followed by another expected show up on Mixturação (director/producer Walter Silva, April, 1973), a Tv Record program where she was one of the promising new talented. Thus success gradually took place.
A previous sportswoman who had already met success now turned to the stage, supported by the family's incentive, her father, an opera
amateur singer, and her mother, a pianist, from whom she received a great stimulus. Before becoming familiar to the Brazilian audience, she was one of those invited to participate in an international tour in Europe
, starting with a presentation at the Olympia, in Paris
. This tour was organized by Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
, regarded as one of the most important Record producers in Brazil. They performed at Olympia, Madison Square Garden
, in New York
, Belgium
and Canada
with great success, originating Brasil Export 73 e Festa Brasil - both produced by Hermínio Bello who would also produce the next two albums, Quatro paredes and Gotas d´água; the latest with Milton Nascimento
´s production.
featured the soundtrack of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
, by Bruno Barreto
, which helped to popularize the music; an outstanding year when she also met Chico Buarque
at the studio: "O que será opened doors for me and my career".
In the following year (from June 16 to September 15, 1978), her name stood by those artists of the Projeto Pixinguinha which aimed to travel around the country with renowned and also new talented singers. An excerpt of the Projeto comments the growing success: In 1977, beyond launching 'Face a Face' and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
soundtrack, she was acclaimed in a spectacle at the 'Museu de Arte moderna'. At the 'Teatro Clara Nunes', directed by Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
presented 'Face a Face'. She is improving her performance in each spectacle and is featured now among Brazil's best singers. She has just recorded 'Cigarra', singing Gonzaguinha's 'Petúnia Resedá', Fagner and Abel Silva ('Sangue e Pudins'), Milton Nascimento
and Ronaldo Bastos ('Cigarra'); a prognostic of a career ascension still not outlined. (Excerpt by Funarte.) Along with Belchior young Simone crowded João Caetano theater presenting Seis e meia (25 August 1977) and was highly acclaimed when singing Gota d´água; Seis e meia marked her first national recognition.
Two years later, Pedaços (December 12, 1979, Canecão, Rio de Janeiro
) was a definitive landmark and acclaimed by critics and was presented to an audience of 120.000 people; Pedaços gave her the first golden disc.
area, in Bahia
. The second, in the last February 7, at the 'Morumbi Stadium
', in São Paulo
, when she raised a vibrant chorus of 90,000 at the 'Canta Brasil' spectacle, singing 'Caminhando'. When presentation ended, she was another shining star in the sky. Success assured career's first golden disc and an eponymous program for Rede Globo
, recorded alive at the 'Globo Theater' (march, 1980). The program, Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, was the first of a series called Grandes Nomes. Still, in this glorious year of 1979, she was present at the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira, interpreting Para Lennon & McCartney (by Márcio and Lô Borges
and Fernando Brant). In 1982, the same magazine would stamp Simone, the largest album seller of the decade, on the cover, with an extensive seven pages coverage.
Since the 1960s, when Festival de Música Popular Brasileira series were launched (Rede Record
), until the 1980s, Brazilian television was marked by the great audience of those broadcasted programs from live music festivals. Mulher 80 (Rede Globo
) was one of these remarkable ones; the program exhibited a series of interviews and musicals aimed to discussing women's role in society with an approach to the national music evolvement and the indisputable predominance of female voices: presenting Elis Regina
, Maria Bethania
, Fafá de Belém
, Marina Lima
, Simone, Rita Lee
, Joanna
, Zezé Motta, Gal Costa
and the extra participation of Regina Duarte
and Narjara Turetta, from Malu Mulher
TV series. On an interview to O Pasquim
journal (nº 572, from 13th to 19 June 1980), Elis Regina talks about her: Elis, from all of these new talents, is there anyone to look at with attention?: "I Like Simone very much. Potentially, there is a talent to bloom out. She is a beautiful woman, her repertory is very good and she is very well orientated by Flávio Rangel and Nelson Ayres".
At the age of 32 she became the first female singer to fill the Maracanãzinho Stadium
. In February 1982 15 to 20 thousand people crowded Canta Brasil to see her perform music by Milton Nascimento
, Ary Barroso
, Chico Buarque
, Tom Jobim, Fernando Brant, Vítor Martins
, Paulo César Pinheiro, Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
, Isolda, Sueli Costa and Abel Silva. In December 1983 she drew a crowd of 150 thousand people to Quinta da Boa Vista
to see a live transmission of Rede Globo
for a New Year's TV show.
As her success grew, Simone continued to be involved in political activities. She helped raise funds with Nordeste já, a Brazilian version of the American charity efforts We are the world
or USA for Africa
. The 155 chorus
voices recorded a compact disc
with two songs, Chega de mágoa and Seca d´água.
In May 2006, in a pocket show at Bourbon Street Nightclub in São Paulo
, Simone along with the band presented a romantic repertoire and delighted the audience with unusual arrangements, within a jazz
y tone, for the Credicard Project. Among the most recent presentations, stands out the ones in Peru
, where she was praised by the audience who stood by the stage clapping for more than five minutes straight; in Miami, along with Ivan Lins
, was acclaimed by critics who considered the show one of the best ones in recent years. By June 2007, the Coliseum of Santos enthusiastically received an icon of MPB
who was one day an unknown dweller. Amigo é Casa, sharing the stage with Zélia Duncan
, was a show for the recording of an eponymous DVD and aimed to mark the partnership she evolved along with Zélia Duncan
for the past two years.
During childhood and teenage years the main references of this romantic repertoire were Roberto Carlos
, Maysa Matarazzo
, of whom she is a great fan and who has a great influence on her work, Dolores Duran
, Ângela Maria, Nora Ney
-- the most relevant names of the samba-canção
or fossa (gloom) gender. Often compared to bolero
, for the featured exaltation and exploration of romantic love or the suffering of a non accomplished love affair was also called "elbow ache" (jealousy, heart ache). Samba-canção preceded the bossa nova
music style, with which Maysa was associated. But this one, inheritor of the American jazz
, presented a more refined, gentle and soft melodies and interpretations, in detriment of those resented, melancholic ones. Maysa's legacy, although it points to a bossa nova bias, is that of a more dramatic singer and it would be more properly linked to the bolero
and samba-canção
rhythm. Simone's manifested fondness for boleros results from this musical heritage.
From the albums recorded after the eighties, a period regarded as a more popular one, stands out Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira (1995), that brought ballads among other classic and consecrated samba composers; Café com leite (1996), a tribute to Martinho da Vila
; Seda pura, an incursion to the pop (2001) and Baiana da gema, a tribute to Ivan Lins
(2004)--works regarded as a reunion of a more refined repertoire and more selective arrangements. Among these stands out the renowned Café com leite, in which she notably interprets Martinho da Vila's sambas. The singer and composer Caetano Veloso
is among the public admirers of this album: Simone's album with Martinho da Vila
's compositions, I find divine, divine and nobody said anything... The press fakes that is not anything. That is divine. His repertoire fits her very well—that album is the kind I like to listen to at home, alone, together with my favourites. She gave clarity to those compositions, it is beautiful. And it was a project thought by the recording of a singer that would sing an author, combined, don't know how was it, but it is beautiful, it is wonderful the result. And she is a great singer, very good, I adore. A very beautiful voice which makes one feels good.
As an interpreter, Ivan Lins
, Vitor Martins, Milton Nascimento
, Fernando Brant, Paulo César Pinheiro, Gonzaguinha
, Chico Buarque
, Martinho da Vila
, Fátima Guedes
, João Bosco
, Aldir Blanc
, Isolda, Roberto Carlos
, Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
, Paulinho da Viola
, Sueli Costa e Abel Silva, are those with larger number of interpretations in the voice. The current repertoire includes Zélia Duncan
, Cássia Eller
, Adriana Calcanhotto
, Aldir Blanc
, Joyce
, Martinho da Vila
, Ivan Lins
, Paulinho da Viola
and Zeca Pagodinho
.
(Rede Globo, 1979), that revolved controversial issues at that time such as the feminine emancipation, divorce
, abortion
and domestic violence
. The character Malu (played by Regina Duarte
) was the first to take birth-control pill on TV. Simone was chosen to interpret it in detriment of Maria Bethânia
, also cogitated for the interpretation. The composition, that was written especially for the series, by Ivan Lins and Vítor Martins, became a great success at the time and a landmark in the history of MPB.
Começar de Novo was also recorded by Barbra Streisand
and Sarah Vaughan
. The North American producer Quincy Jones
stands as one of her greatest admirers of this interpretation; admiration which he extends to her talent, citing Simone as "one of the world´s greatest singers". Along with Jones, stands Brad Mehldau
, who compares her to Sarah Vaughan
and Dinah Washington
, referring her strong identity, passion and grace". Julio Iglesias
refer Simone as one of his favourites among Brazilian female singers.
Brazil
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ian singer and a major performer of Música Popular Brasileira
Música Popular Brasileira
Música Popular Brasileira or MPB designates a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary...
(MPB) who has recorded more than 31 albums.
Biography
Simone was born on December 25, 1949 in Salvador, BahiaSalvador, Bahia
Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...
as the seventh daughter in a family of nine children. During her teenage years she was a professional basketball
Basketball
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player and moved to São Paulo
São Paulo
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to become a member of the women's national basketball team
Brazil women's national basketball team
Brazil women's national basketball team is the official women's basketball team for Brazil. They won the 1994 FIBA World Championship for Women in Australia.-Olympic Games:* 1992: 7th place* 1996: 2nd place * 2000: 3rd place...
. She studied in Santos (São Paulo)
Santos (São Paulo)
-Sister cities: Shimonoseki, Japan Nagasaki, Japan Funchal, Portugal Trieste, Italy Coimbra, Portugal Ansião, Portugal Arouca, Portugal Ushuaia, Argentina Havana, Cuba Taizhou. China Ningbo. China Constanţa, Romania Ulsan, South Korea Colón, Panama* Cadiz, Spain...
, majoring in Physical Education
Physical education
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.
Career
Her career begun when a close friend and guitarGuitar
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teacher Elodir Barontini invited her to sing in a pre-schedule dinner with Odeon
Odeon Records
Odeon Records was a record label founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin, Germany. It was named after a famous theatre in Paris, whose classical dome appears on the Odeon record label....
´s marketing manager. At the end of this meeting, specially scheduled for the performance, came an offer of a contract to record not one but four albums at once. Her eponymous debut album was recorded in October 1972 at low cost and with a few musicians, conducted by José Briamonte. This inaugural edition circulated only for friends, relatives and artists; ten years later it would be re-edited and with a different cover. By the 20 March 1973, Simone was launched for the press
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in a closed meeting at the Hilton Hotel, in São Paulo; later on she would appear for the first time ever on a TV program, for Tv Bandeirantes. Followed by another expected show up on Mixturação (director/producer Walter Silva, April, 1973), a Tv Record program where she was one of the promising new talented. Thus success gradually took place.
A previous sportswoman who had already met success now turned to the stage, supported by the family's incentive, her father, an opera
Opera
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amateur singer, and her mother, a pianist, from whom she received a great stimulus. Before becoming familiar to the Brazilian audience, she was one of those invited to participate in an international tour in Europe
Europe
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, starting with a presentation at the Olympia, in Paris
Paris
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. This tour was organized by Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho is a Brazilian record producer, composer, writer and poet.He is regarded as one of the most respected experts in brazilian music.-External links:*...
, regarded as one of the most important Record producers in Brazil. They performed at Olympia, Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
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, in New York
New York
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, Belgium
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and Canada
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with great success, originating Brasil Export 73 e Festa Brasil - both produced by Hermínio Bello who would also produce the next two albums, Quatro paredes and Gotas d´água; the latest with Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
´s production.
Success, shows, TV festivals
In the late 1970s, in 1977, she reached national recognition singing Jura Secreta, Face a face and O que será. The last, by Chico BuarqueChico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
featured the soundtrack of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a 1976 comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto. Based on the novel of the same name by Jorge Amado, it takes place in 1940s Bahia. It stars Sônia Braga, José Wilker, and Mauro Mendonça in the leading roles...
, by Bruno Barreto
Bruno Barreto
Bruno Barreto is a Brazilian film director born in Rio de Janeiro. He has been making feature-length films ever since he was seventeen years old and remains one of Brazil’s most accomplished and popular directors to this day...
, which helped to popularize the music; an outstanding year when she also met Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
at the studio: "O que será opened doors for me and my career".
In the following year (from June 16 to September 15, 1978), her name stood by those artists of the Projeto Pixinguinha which aimed to travel around the country with renowned and also new talented singers. An excerpt of the Projeto comments the growing success: In 1977, beyond launching 'Face a Face' and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a 1976 comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto. Based on the novel of the same name by Jorge Amado, it takes place in 1940s Bahia. It stars Sônia Braga, José Wilker, and Mauro Mendonça in the leading roles...
soundtrack, she was acclaimed in a spectacle at the 'Museu de Arte moderna'. At the 'Teatro Clara Nunes', directed by Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho is a Brazilian record producer, composer, writer and poet.He is regarded as one of the most respected experts in brazilian music.-External links:*...
presented 'Face a Face'. She is improving her performance in each spectacle and is featured now among Brazil's best singers. She has just recorded 'Cigarra', singing Gonzaguinha's 'Petúnia Resedá', Fagner and Abel Silva ('Sangue e Pudins'), Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
and Ronaldo Bastos ('Cigarra'); a prognostic of a career ascension still not outlined. (Excerpt by Funarte.) Along with Belchior young Simone crowded João Caetano theater presenting Seis e meia (25 August 1977) and was highly acclaimed when singing Gota d´água; Seis e meia marked her first national recognition.
Two years later, Pedaços (December 12, 1979, Canecão, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
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) was a definitive landmark and acclaimed by critics and was presented to an audience of 120.000 people; Pedaços gave her the first golden disc.
The largest album seller of the Eighties
According to Revista Veja (Brazil's largest weekly news magazine): Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira was born twice. The first, in 1949, in a low-class SalvadorSalvador, Bahia
Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...
area, in Bahia
Bahia
Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size...
. The second, in the last February 7, at the 'Morumbi Stadium
Estádio do Morumbi
Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo is a stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, home of São Paulo Futebol Clube and its formal name honors Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, who was São Paulo FC's chairman during most of the stadium construction, and died before its inauguration....
', in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, when she raised a vibrant chorus of 90,000 at the 'Canta Brasil' spectacle, singing 'Caminhando'. When presentation ended, she was another shining star in the sky. Success assured career's first golden disc and an eponymous program for Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
, recorded alive at the 'Globo Theater' (march, 1980). The program, Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, was the first of a series called Grandes Nomes. Still, in this glorious year of 1979, she was present at the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira, interpreting Para Lennon & McCartney (by Márcio and Lô Borges
Lô Borges
Lô Borges is a Brazilian songwriter, singer and guitarist.He was one of the founders of Clube da Esquina, a music collective originating in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. He co-authored with Milton Nascimento the album Clube da Esquina in 1972, which was a milestone in Brazilian popular...
and Fernando Brant). In 1982, the same magazine would stamp Simone, the largest album seller of the decade, on the cover, with an extensive seven pages coverage.
Since the 1960s, when Festival de Música Popular Brasileira series were launched (Rede Record
Rede Record
Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...
), until the 1980s, Brazilian television was marked by the great audience of those broadcasted programs from live music festivals. Mulher 80 (Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
) was one of these remarkable ones; the program exhibited a series of interviews and musicals aimed to discussing women's role in society with an approach to the national music evolvement and the indisputable predominance of female voices: presenting Elis Regina
Elis Regina
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing Arrastão in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record...
, Maria Bethania
Maria Bethânia
Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Bethânia , is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião"...
, Fafá de Belém
Fafá de Belém
Fafá de Belém, born Maria de Fátima Palha de Figueiredo in Belém do Pará on August 9, 1956, is a Brazilian singer considered one of the great female singers of MPB...
, Marina Lima
Marina Lima
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 and learned to read first in English and then in Portuguese. She gained attention in 1977 when popular...
, Simone, Rita Lee
Rita Lee
Rita Lee Jones Carvalho , simply known as Rita Lee, is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. Lee continues to be a popular figure in Brazilian entertainment, where she is also known for being an animal rights activist and a vegetarian...
, Joanna
Joanna
Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from Koine Greek Iōanna from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה meaning "God is gracious". Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna...
, Zezé Motta, Gal Costa
Gal Costa
Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...
and the extra participation of Regina Duarte
Regina Duarte
Regina Blois Duarte is a Brazilian film, television and stage actress. Her efforts against the current Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the 2002 elections caused considerable controversy. Duarte appeared in a TV advertisement saying that she was afraid of what could happen to...
and Narjara Turetta, from Malu Mulher
Malu Mulher
Malu Mulher was a TV series broadcast by Rede Globo from May 24, 1979 to December 22, 1980, written and directed by Daniel Filho . The theme song, Começar de novo, was a great hit in the voice of one of Brazil's greatest popular female singer, Simone....
TV series. On an interview to O Pasquim
O Pasquim
O Pasquim is the name of a Brazilian periodical which was the first and most important to resist against the Brazilian military dictatorship. The idea for the periodical began in 1968 after a meeting of cartoonist Jaguar with journalists Tarso de Castro and Sérgio Cabral .They were looking for an...
journal (nº 572, from 13th to 19 June 1980), Elis Regina talks about her: Elis, from all of these new talents, is there anyone to look at with attention?: "I Like Simone very much. Potentially, there is a talent to bloom out. She is a beautiful woman, her repertory is very good and she is very well orientated by Flávio Rangel and Nelson Ayres".
At the age of 32 she became the first female singer to fill the Maracanãzinho Stadium
Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, sometimes called just Maracanãzinho , is a modern indoor arena located in Maracanã neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its formal name, Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso, honors a former Clube de Regatas do Flamengo president...
. In February 1982 15 to 20 thousand people crowded Canta Brasil to see her perform music by Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
, Ary Barroso
Ary Barroso
Ary Barroso was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV...
, Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
, Tom Jobim, Fernando Brant, Vítor Martins
Vítor Martins
Vítor Manuel Rosa Martins is a retired Portuguese footballer. He played for Benfica, as a midfielder.- External links :*...
, Paulo César Pinheiro, Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho is a Brazilian record producer, composer, writer and poet.He is regarded as one of the most respected experts in brazilian music.-External links:*...
, Isolda, Sueli Costa and Abel Silva. In December 1983 she drew a crowd of 150 thousand people to Quinta da Boa Vista
Quinta da Boa Vista
The Quinta da Boa Vista is a public park of great historical importance in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The park was part of the gardens of the São Cristóvão Palace, the residence of the Emperors of Brazil in the 19th century....
to see a live transmission of Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
for a New Year's TV show.
As her success grew, Simone continued to be involved in political activities. She helped raise funds with Nordeste já, a Brazilian version of the American charity efforts We are the world
We Are the World
"We Are the World" is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World...
or USA for Africa
USA for Africa
USA for Africa was the name under which forty-seven predominantly U.S. artists, led by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985. The song was a US and UK Number One for the collective in April of that year...
. The 155 chorus
Choir
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voices recorded a compact disc
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
with two songs, Chega de mágoa and Seca d´água.
In May 2006, in a pocket show at Bourbon Street Nightclub in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Simone along with the band presented a romantic repertoire and delighted the audience with unusual arrangements, within a jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
y tone, for the Credicard Project. Among the most recent presentations, stands out the ones in Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, where she was praised by the audience who stood by the stage clapping for more than five minutes straight; in Miami, along with Ivan Lins
Ivan Lins
Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...
, was acclaimed by critics who considered the show one of the best ones in recent years. By June 2007, the Coliseum of Santos enthusiastically received an icon of MPB
Música Popular Brasileira
Música Popular Brasileira or MPB designates a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary...
who was one day an unknown dweller. Amigo é Casa, sharing the stage with Zélia Duncan
Zélia Duncan
Zélia Duncan , born Zélia Cristina Gonçalves Moreira, is a Brazilian singer and composer.-Biography:Zélia was born in Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. She moved with her family to Brasília, where she lived for 16 years...
, was a show for the recording of an eponymous DVD and aimed to mark the partnership she evolved along with Zélia Duncan
Zélia Duncan
Zélia Duncan , born Zélia Cristina Gonçalves Moreira, is a Brazilian singer and composer.-Biography:Zélia was born in Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. She moved with her family to Brasília, where she lived for 16 years...
for the past two years.
Repertoire
In the history of MPB the tradition of romanticism was overly intensified during the eighties and the themes of romantic love, passion, were thoroughly explored by singers and composers. Simone, whose repertoire has been predominantly romantic since the beginning of her career, is one of them, and she is for this reason categorized as a romantic singer; her repertoire comprehends some 350 interpretations, one of the largest and most diversified among Brazilian female singers. The themes of romantic love, passion, (Começar de Novo, Jura Secreta, Corpo, Medo de Amar nº2, Raios de luz, Lenha), samba, (O Amanhã, Disputa de Poder, Ex-amor), and religious songs, (Cantos de Maculelê, Reis e rainhas do Maracatu, Então é Natal, Ave Maria, Jesus Cristo), are the most frequent on her work.During childhood and teenage years the main references of this romantic repertoire were Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos (singer)
Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....
, Maysa Matarazzo
Maysa Matarazzo
Maysa Figueira Monjardim , better known as Maysa Matarazzo or simply Maysa, daughter of Alcibíades Guaraná Monjardim and wife Inah Figueira and paternal granddaughter of Manuel Silvino Monjardim and wife Ursulina Guaraná, was a singer, composer, and actress from Brazil...
, of whom she is a great fan and who has a great influence on her work, Dolores Duran
Dolores Duran
Dolores Duran was a Brazilian singer and composer.Adiléia Silva da Rocha debuted at age 10 on the radio. Two years later, when her father died, she started to work on the television, too...
, Ângela Maria, Nora Ney
Nora Ney
Nora Ney was a Brazilian singer. She is also the most notable interpreter of the samba-canção music style and a pioneer of the Brazilian rock....
-- the most relevant names of the samba-canção
Samba-canção
Samba-canção is a kind of slow samba music from Brazil. It appeared in the late 1940s. During the 1950s several stars used to sing it including Dalva de Oliveira, Nora Ney, The Batista Sisters, Jamelão, Maysa, Dorival Caymmi and many others...
or fossa (gloom) gender. Often compared to bolero
Bolero
Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...
, for the featured exaltation and exploration of romantic love or the suffering of a non accomplished love affair was also called "elbow ache" (jealousy, heart ache). Samba-canção preceded the bossa nova
Bossa nova
Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music. Bossa nova acquired a large following in the 1960s, initially consisting of young musicians and college students...
music style, with which Maysa was associated. But this one, inheritor of the American jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, presented a more refined, gentle and soft melodies and interpretations, in detriment of those resented, melancholic ones. Maysa's legacy, although it points to a bossa nova bias, is that of a more dramatic singer and it would be more properly linked to the bolero
Bolero
Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...
and samba-canção
Samba-canção
Samba-canção is a kind of slow samba music from Brazil. It appeared in the late 1940s. During the 1950s several stars used to sing it including Dalva de Oliveira, Nora Ney, The Batista Sisters, Jamelão, Maysa, Dorival Caymmi and many others...
rhythm. Simone's manifested fondness for boleros results from this musical heritage.
From the albums recorded after the eighties, a period regarded as a more popular one, stands out Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira (1995), that brought ballads among other classic and consecrated samba composers; Café com leite (1996), a tribute to Martinho da Vila
Martinho da Vila
Martinho da Vila is a Brazilian samba musician...
; Seda pura, an incursion to the pop (2001) and Baiana da gema, a tribute to Ivan Lins
Ivan Lins
Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...
(2004)--works regarded as a reunion of a more refined repertoire and more selective arrangements. Among these stands out the renowned Café com leite, in which she notably interprets Martinho da Vila's sambas. The singer and composer Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
is among the public admirers of this album: Simone's album with Martinho da Vila
Martinho da Vila
Martinho da Vila is a Brazilian samba musician...
's compositions, I find divine, divine and nobody said anything... The press fakes that is not anything. That is divine. His repertoire fits her very well—that album is the kind I like to listen to at home, alone, together with my favourites. She gave clarity to those compositions, it is beautiful. And it was a project thought by the recording of a singer that would sing an author, combined, don't know how was it, but it is beautiful, it is wonderful the result. And she is a great singer, very good, I adore. A very beautiful voice which makes one feels good.
As an interpreter, Ivan Lins
Ivan Lins
Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...
, Vitor Martins, Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
, Fernando Brant, Paulo César Pinheiro, Gonzaguinha
Gonzaguinha
Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Júnior , better known as Gonzaguinha, was a noted Brazilian singer and composer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and he was the son of Luiz Gonzaga , the "king of baião"...
, Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
, Martinho da Vila
Martinho da Vila
Martinho da Vila is a Brazilian samba musician...
, Fátima Guedes
Fátima Guedes
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, João Bosco
João Bosco
João Bosco de Freitas Mucci, better known as João Bosco is a noted Brazilian singer-songwriter with a distinctive style as a guitarist...
, Aldir Blanc
Aldir Blanc
Aldir Blanc is a famous Brazilian author of crônicas [journalistic vignettes, chronicles] and lyricist. He co-composed many songs with singer-songwriterJoão Bosco, guitarist Guinga, and others....
, Isolda, Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos (singer)
Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....
, Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho is a Brazilian record producer, composer, writer and poet.He is regarded as one of the most respected experts in brazilian music.-External links:*...
, Paulinho da Viola
Paulinho da Viola
Paulinho da Viola is a Brazilian sambista, singer/songwriter, guitar, cavaquinho and mandolin player, known for his sophisticated harmonies and soft, gentle singing voice.-Biography:...
, Sueli Costa e Abel Silva, are those with larger number of interpretations in the voice. The current repertoire includes Zélia Duncan
Zélia Duncan
Zélia Duncan , born Zélia Cristina Gonçalves Moreira, is a Brazilian singer and composer.-Biography:Zélia was born in Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. She moved with her family to Brasília, where she lived for 16 years...
, Cássia Eller
Cássia Eller
Cássia Rejane Eller was a Brazilian musician. She performed a fusion of rock and MPB.- Biography :After spending most of her adolescence in Brasília, Eller dropped out of high school and returned to her birthplace of Rio de Janeiro, where she began a career as a recording artist...
, Adriana Calcanhotto
Adriana Calcanhotto
Adriana Calcanhotto is a Brazilian singer/composer. Her melancholic songs are often categorized as belonging to the MPB genre...
, Aldir Blanc
Aldir Blanc
Aldir Blanc is a famous Brazilian author of crônicas [journalistic vignettes, chronicles] and lyricist. He co-composed many songs with singer-songwriterJoão Bosco, guitarist Guinga, and others....
, Joyce
Joyce (singer)
Joyce Silveira Moreno, commonly known as Joyce is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, as well as an accomplished guitarist and arranger. She was born in Rio de Janeiro on 31 January 1948...
, Martinho da Vila
Martinho da Vila
Martinho da Vila is a Brazilian samba musician...
, Ivan Lins
Ivan Lins
Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...
, Paulinho da Viola
Paulinho da Viola
Paulinho da Viola is a Brazilian sambista, singer/songwriter, guitar, cavaquinho and mandolin player, known for his sophisticated harmonies and soft, gentle singing voice.-Biography:...
and Zeca Pagodinho
Zeca Pagodinho
Zeca Pagodinho is a Brazilian singer/songwriter working in the genres of samba and pagode.-Biography:...
.
Começar de novo
The anthological Começar de novo, from Pedaços album (1979), stands out as the most outstanding success and for it being also the theme song of the TV series Malu MulherMalu Mulher
Malu Mulher was a TV series broadcast by Rede Globo from May 24, 1979 to December 22, 1980, written and directed by Daniel Filho . The theme song, Começar de novo, was a great hit in the voice of one of Brazil's greatest popular female singer, Simone....
(Rede Globo, 1979), that revolved controversial issues at that time such as the feminine emancipation, divorce
Divorce
Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...
, abortion
Abortion
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...
and domestic violence
Domestic violence
Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence , is broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation...
. The character Malu (played by Regina Duarte
Regina Duarte
Regina Blois Duarte is a Brazilian film, television and stage actress. Her efforts against the current Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the 2002 elections caused considerable controversy. Duarte appeared in a TV advertisement saying that she was afraid of what could happen to...
) was the first to take birth-control pill on TV. Simone was chosen to interpret it in detriment of Maria Bethânia
Maria Bethânia
Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Bethânia , is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião"...
, also cogitated for the interpretation. The composition, that was written especially for the series, by Ivan Lins and Vítor Martins, became a great success at the time and a landmark in the history of MPB.
Começar de Novo was also recorded by Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
and Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...
. The North American producer Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
stands as one of her greatest admirers of this interpretation; admiration which he extends to her talent, citing Simone as "one of the world´s greatest singers". Along with Jones, stands Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau is an American jazz pianist. Besides leading his own group, the Brad Mehldau Trio, he has performed with many renowned artists, including Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter, Larry Grenadier, Peter Bernstein, Jeff Ballard, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, Kurt...
, who compares her to Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...
and Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...
, referring her strong identity, passion and grace". Julio Iglesias
Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva , better known simply as Julio Iglesias, is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best selling music artists in history,...
refer Simone as one of his favourites among Brazilian female singers.
EMI
- 1973 - Simone
- 1973 - Brasil Export
- 1973 - Expo Som 73 - ao vivo
- 1974 - Festa Brasil
- 1974 - Quatro Paredes
- 1975 - Gotas D'Água
- 1977 - Face a Face
- 1978 - Cigarra
- 1979 - Pedaços
- 1980 - Simone Ao Vivo no Canecão
- 1980 - Simone (Atrevida)
Sony BMG / CBS
- 1981 - Amar
- 1982 - Corpo e Alma
- 1983 - Delírios e Delícias
- 1984 - Desejos
- 1985 - CristalCristal (album)Cristal is an album by Brazilian interpreter Simone released in 1985, containing the hits "A Outra" and "Princesa".-Track listing :#Tinha de Ser #Sonhos #Cristal...
- 1986 - Amor e Paixão
- 1987 - Vício
- 1988 - Sedução
- 1989 - Simone (Tudo por Amor)
- 1991 - Raio de Luz
- 1991 - Simone - Procuro OlvidarteProcuro Olvidarte"Procuro olvidarte" is the name of the song that was the first international hit of the Nicaraguan singer and composer Hernaldo Zúñiga, the song was composed by Manuel Alejandro and Ana Magdalena, as the interpreter recognizes "based on a loving episode that I lived in thoses days", and because of...
(Espanhol) (featuring Hernaldo ZúñigaHernaldo ZúñigaHernaldo Zúñiga is a Nicaraguan singer and music composer. He was born in Managua but lived his childhood and adolescence in Masaya.-Career:...
) - 1993 - Sou Eu
- 1993 - La Distancia (Espanhol)
- 1995 - Simone Simone
- 1995 - Dos Enamoradas (Espanhol)
Universal / Polygram
- 1995 - 25 de Dezembro
- 1996 - Café com Leite
- 1996 - 25 de diciembre (Spanish)
- 1997 - Brasil, O Show - Live
- 1998 - Loca (Espanhol)
- 2000 - Fica Comigo Esta Noite
- 2001 - Seda Pura
- 2002 - Feminino - Live
Brazilian soap opera theme songs
- Um desejo só não basta (Corpo a Corpo) - Sony
- Pensamentos (Explode Coração) - Universal
- Íntimo (Uma Esperança no Ar) - Sony
- Naquela noite com Yoko (Brilhante) - Sony
- Quem é Você (A Próxima Vítima) - Sony
- É festa (Senhora do Destino) - Universal
- Sentimental demais (Laços de Família) - Universal
- Será (Perigosas Peruas) - Sony
- Desafio (Mulheres de Areia) - Sony
- Apaixonada(Pantanal) - Sony
- Então Me Diz (Belíssima) - EMI
- Raios de Luz (De Corpo e Alma) - Sony
- Muito Estranho (Desejos de Mulher) - Universal
- Veneziana (A Lua me Disse) - EMI
- Seu Corpo (Sassaricando) - Sony
- Loca-Crazy (Torre de Babel) - Universal
- Tô Que Tô (Sol de Verão) - Sony
- Anjo de Mim (Anjo de Mim) - Sony
- Em Flor (Roda de Fogo) - Sony
- Amor explícito (Corpo Santo) - Sony
- Carta Marcada (Araponga) - Sony
- Beija, Me Beija, Me Beija (O Amor Está no Ar) - Universal
- Uma Nova Mulher (Tieta) - Sony
- Sob Medida (Os Gigantes) - EMI
- Saindo de Mim (Chega Mais) - EMI
- Medo de Amar nº 2 (Sinal de Alerta) - EMI
- Povo da Raça Brasil (Terras do Sem Fim) - EMI
- Mulher da Vida (Champagne) - Sony
- O Tempo Não Pára (O Salvador da Pátria) - Sony
- Começar de Novo (Malu Mulher) - EMI
- A Outra (Roque Santeiro) - Sony
- Desesperar jamais (Água Viva) - EMI
- Face a Face (O Pulo do Gato) - EMI
- Valsa do Desejo (Força de um Desejo) - Universal
- Mundo Delirante (Elas por Elas) - Sony
- Vento nordeste (Pé de Vento) - EMI
- Existe um céu (Paraíso Tropical) - EMI
- Jura secreta (O Profeta e Memórias de Amor) - EMI
- Cigarra (Cara a Cara) - EMI'
- Ela disse-me assim (Os Imigrantes - Terceira Geração) - EMI
- Então vale a pena (Salário mínimo) - EMI
- O que será (Dona Flor and Her Two HusbandsDona Flor and Her Two HusbandsDona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a 1976 comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto. Based on the novel of the same name by Jorge Amado, it takes place in 1940s Bahia. It stars Sônia Braga, José Wilker, and Mauro Mendonça in the leading roles...
) - EMI - Enrosco (Paixões Proibidas) - EMI