- Format: CD
- Label: Other
- Genre: Folk
A brilliant 23 track compilation of the Brazilian Bossa Nova star Nara Leao
The cliche about Nara Leao was that she was "the muse of bossa nova." As a teenager in the late
'Fifties, she opened up her parents house as a salon for the movers and shakers of the early bossa
nova scene - Tom Jobim, Joao Gilberto and others to hang out in.
In the early sixties, as bossa nova exploded internationally, Nara rose to stardom. Soft and sweet,
moody and sensuous, she performed pop and beautiful samba and bossa standards and
established her reputation as one of the outstanding talents of her generation. She toured Japan,
Brazil and France with Sergio Menzies and returned to record political songs that were critical of
Brazil¹s prevailing military junta.
Nara's catalogue of recordings are so magical, of such a consistently high standard, they are
sacrosanct in Brazil. this compilation concentrates on recordings made in 1967 her absolute best
period.
Nara Leao has more recently began to cultivate an audience in Japan where like Astrud Gilberto,
Elis Regina and Claudine Longet her sweetness strikes a real chord.
A biography of Nara Leao as a history of bossa nova has just been published in Brazil.
Sergio Cabral, "It's a mystery why she hasn¹t been recognized as one of the most influential
characters of our music. We forget people easily. But I believe that, at least unconsciously, the
revolution she started was realized by the people who surrounded her"
TRACK LISTING
1/ QUEM TE VIU QUEM TE VE
2/ COM ACUCAR COM AFETO
3/ NOITES DOS MASCARADOS
4/ VENTO DE MAIO
5/ MARIA JOANA
6/ A PRACA
7/ O CIRCO
8/ MORENA DO MAR
9/ FUI BEM FELIZ
10/ RANCHO DAS NAMORADAS
11/ UM CHORINHO
12/ PASSA PASSA GIVIAO
13/ TIQUE TAQUE DO MEU CORACAO
14/ LANCHA NOVA
15/ POR EXEMPLO VOCE
16/ CORRIDA DE JANGADA
17/ DE ONDE VENS
18/ SE VOCE QUISER SABER
19/ CAMISA AMARELA
20/ CABRA MACHO
21/ NO CORDAO DA SAIDEIRA
22/ INSPIRACAO
23/ SONETO DE SEPARACAO
