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Gli Azzurri | Part 13 | Our Little Argentinian Genius

#FM24 #GliAzzurri Part 13: Our Little Argentinian Genius. Midfield superstar Claudio Echeverri takes #EmpoliFC to new heights alongside his pal João Veloso and record-breaking striker Nelson Weiper. But can we overcome #SerieA title nerves? Read here:

Despite only losing once in the first half of the 2028/29 Serie A campaign, Empoli FC found themselves trailing leaders Napoli by five points. But there were certainly shoots of optimism at the young side’s improving fortunes against Italy’s traditional big boys. We did very little transfer activity in January, only bringing in a backup goalkeeper from financially ruined Roma after doubling our…

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Dorival Caymmi é o meu calmante na vida

as minhas segundas-feiras são sempre agitadas. esse agito veio com o jornalismo. eu gosto. e, em meio a este turbilhão de agito, que às vezes vem como um tsunami, encontrei Caymmi como calmante. 

o cantor dos mares da Bahia, aquele que melhor interpreta Itapuã (meu bairro em Salvador) em versos e melodias, traz uma paz em sua voz grave, com seu violão inigualável e versos simples, mas cheio de potência como o mar. 

para mim, indiscutivelmente, Caymmi é o maior artista da música brasileira. sem a sua contribuição, a nossa música seria muito pequena perto de seu tamanho gigante que é. a música brasileira é universal, Caymmi deu sua contribuição, não como uma contribuição a mais, mas uma contribuição que mudou o rumo dos ventos. e essa posição que dou a ele de maior da nossa música é compartilhada por gente que entende de música muito mais do que eu: Caetano Veloso e João Gilberto estão nesta lista.

hoje (5/6/23), foi mais uma segunda-feira que Caymmi me fez companhia. ela ainda não terminou (são 18h30). logo, Caymmi seguirá comigo: alimentando a alma, dando acalanto ao meu coração e guiando minha escrita. 

um dia quem sabe, escrevo versos como ele. um dia. quem sabe?! obrigado, Caymmi! você é barril dobrado, vúh!

salvador, ba segunda-feira - 5/6/23

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Piquenique

A playlist de hoje e autoexplicativa: uma seleção pra ouvir descalço no parque. São 30 músicas com um clima calmo e solar que estimulam uma pausa num lugar gostoso pra comer e/ou beber algo gostoso. Uma coisa good vibes, só que de adulto. 😆 Tá boa de ouvir sem shuffle. Reprises de Jorge Ben Jor, Los Hermanos, Os Mutantes, Tulipa Ruiz e Gilberto Gil. O que tem? Tim Maia – Imunização Racional…

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Djavan || Festival Jardins do Marquês 2024

Djavan foi um gigante na noite de Oeiras. Não coube em si, e a sorte foi toda nossa. Iluminou a noite que fechou a edição de 2024 do Festival Jardins do Marquês. Ontem foi dia D!

Djavan foi um gigante na noite de Oeiras. Não coube em si, e a sorte foi toda nossa. Iluminou a noite que fechou a edição de 2024 do Festival Jardins do Marquês. Ontem foi dia D! “Ser feliz é logo ali” Verso da canção Num Mundo de Paz, de Djavan. Foi o fim da edição deste ano do Festival Jardins do Marquês. Era difícil imaginar um último concerto melhor do que o de ontem. Djavan brilhou como…

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Dia Mundial da Poesia | Conheça poesias que inspiraram músicas

No Dia Mundial da Poesia, selecionamos alguns artistas que transformaram poesia em músicas. Confira:

No Dia Mundial da Poesia, celebrado em 21 de março, mergulhamos no universo da música para explorar como as poesias influenciam e inspiram composições inesquecíveis. Das baladas melancólicas aos ritmos vibrantes, a junção entre poesia e música revela-se como uma fonte infinita de arte. Por isso, elaboramos essa lista com músicas que inspiradas em versos poéticos, com artistas nacionais e…

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Lourival Tavares apresenta “Canto Encanto – A noite dos menestréis” no Bar do Léo

[release] Marcos Lussaray e Lourival Tavares em show no Teatro da Cidade (2014). Foto: Zema Ribeiro/ Divulgação Artista será homenageado pela Festa da Música do Maranhão; no show, Lourival Tavares será acompanhado por Marcos Lussaray (violão e guitarra) e terá as participações especiais de Erasmo Dibell, Gildomar Marinho, Joãozinho Ribeiro, Sérgio Habibe, Tutuca Viana e Wilson Zara O cantor e…

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Brasil, João Gilberto, Maria Bethânia, Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil (1981)

If ever one was to crown a classic on paper alone, Brasil would be it. Gilberto’s soft buzz and undular rhythms, Gil’s lush orchestral compositions, Veloso and Bethânia’s vocals and songwriting contributions... and that doesn’t touch on the session musicians who, in various circles, are just as revered.

Pick: ‘Aquarela do Brasil’

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eu tô muito feliz de ter feito esta playlist 💖

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Gli Azzurri | Part 12 | Rejoicing In Justice

#FM24 #GliAzzurri Part 12: Rejoicing In Justice. An array of exciting young signings helps #EmpoliFC pick themselves and dust themselves off after #SerieA title disappointment. And they finally begin to compete with Italy's big boys. Read here:

The old FM24 goalkeeper injury curse hit Empoli FC hard and curtailed their push for a maiden Serie A title in 2027/28. But that disappointment aside, we’d built an exciting young squad in Tuscany and the club was very much on the up. That was proven by starting the new season with £87m in the bank and the board announcing plans to build a new stadium, and they’re currently looking into…

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List of famous Brazilian songs that have changed me in ways I can’t even explain and I think you should give a listen to and be changed forever too

Carcará - João do Vale e Chico Buarque

Elza Soares - Espumas ao vento

Elza Soares - A carne (a song criticizing systemic racism

Chitãozinho e Xororó - Evidências (this is a country love song that is so ridiculously famous that most people know the lyrics. it’s camp and it’s iconic and it’s a vibe)

Caetano Veloso - Você não me ensinou a te esquecer (this song always makes me tear up and it’s just… beautiful but incredibly sad, about the impossibility of forgetting someone you love and lost. so much grief)

Elis Regina - Como nossos pais (she had such a great voice) “I feel everything in the living wound in my heart” “my pain is realizing that even though we did everything, we are still the same and we still live just as our parents” (it’s quite a political song too, criticizing the dictatorship that was in power since 1964 and was implemented with support from the usa - many people who were brutally murdered haven’t been found to this day)

Cazuza - O tempo não para “in cold nights it’s better to have never been born, in the hot ones you have to choose between killing and being killed, they call you a thief, queer, stoner, turn the whole country into a whorehouse so they can make more money” - yes this song is also political

Mc Marcinho - Glamourosa

To end this on a song that is not political in itself but from a genre created in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, so a very political genre that often criticizes racism and politics in Brazil, called funk. This song is about a glamourous woman who is the queen of funk and also dances really well

Unfortunately will not be accepting any criticism in my music taste but will be accepting any additions by Brazilians telling me “why did you forget x, y, z” please add to the post your favorites, love you, bye

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Tall and tan and young and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking and When she passes, each one she passes goes, ‘ah'”

The Girl from Ipanema

The girl from Ipanema is dead. Or rather the one who gave her voice to it died, Astrud Gilberto.

The Girl From Ipanema was originally titled ‘Menina que Passa’ (‘The Girl Who Passes By’) and set to be featured in a musical comedy entitled Dirigivel.It was written in 1962 by Antônio Carlos Jobim with Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. The inspiration for the song came from a young woman, Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto who lived in Montenegro Street in Ipanema. The 17 year old Heloísa would be noticed walking past the Veloso bar-café as part of her daily routine, and one day going about her normal business she caught the attention of the composers. Leaving an impression of youth and grace, to Moraes and Jobim she became the girl from Ipanema. The popularity of the song would elevate the teenager to celebrity status, and in the years that followed would be known as Helô Pinheiro a model and successful businesswoman. 

Under the spell of bossa nova, the great Stan Getz teamed up with Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto to record, primarily, the songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim. The resulting album, Getz/Gilberto was released in 1964 became a million seller and one of the most famous jazz albums of all time. The success of the album was arguably down to the track ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ which came out as a 45rpm single. It was sung by Astrud Gilberto, it went on to sell more than five million copies worldwide.

During the recording session for the album that took place on 18 and 19 March, 1963 it was decided that a version with lyrics in English would be a good idea. Norman Gimbel was on hand to write the English lyrics, and ‘Garota de Ipanema’ quickly became ‘The Girl From Ipanema’.  There was just one problem: no one available with a good enough command of the language to sing the song in English. That was, apart from João’s wife Astrud who had come along to the studio.

Although she had never recorded professionally before, she was an experienced vocalist having sung on stage with her husband and what followed catapulted the 22 year-old singer to worldwide fame. She laid down vocals for the track, as well as another song – ‘Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)’. Getz, Gilberto and producer Creed Taylor quickly realised they had something special, with her gentle voice, almost a quiet whisper, a perfect fit for the song and for Getz’s warm yet light toned tenor playing.

The astronomical success of the single ensured good sales for the full album too, and Stan Getz is said to have been remuneration handsomely for his work. However, whilst the success of the song may have helped launch Astrud’s career, she did not benefit financially. She was reportedly paid just $120 which was the standard rate for her contribution - although the saxophonist was apparently insistent that she should be paid nothing.

In her own words, she was manipulated by “wolves posing as sheep”. Both Getz and Creed Taylor claimed credit for the discovery, with the singer later commenting: “in fact, nothing is further from the truth. I guess it made them look important to have been the one that had the ‘wisdom’ to recognise potential in my singing… I can’t help but feel annoyed that they resorted to lying.”

As a result of the way the song was credited for royalties, Astrud Gilberto received indeed received no additional financial remuneration for her contribution. The injustice continues when it transpires that her husband at the time (they divorced a short time afterwards in 1964) received a 5-figure amount via royalties while Getz, securing the largest amount, is rumoured to have bought a mansion with his share that amounted to nearly $1 million. The injustice and inequality of the music business may have reared its ugly head – unfortunately just one of many such instances - but the music that came from the session has left us with a timeless gem. Today it is reportedly the second most recorded pop song of all time after the Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’.

The Girl from Ipanema would be her only major hit - though it crept back into the UK chart in 1984 as bossa nova flourished again, popularised by Everything But the Girl, Sade and others - but she retained a fandom for a series of subsequent solo albums on the jazz label Verve, beginning with 1965’s The Astrud Gilberto Album. She also recorded with Chet Baker, and continued to tour until 2002. In 2008 she was given a lifetime achievement award by the Latin Grammys.

Video: is Astrud Gilberto performing "The Girl from Ipanema" in 1964 with Stan Getz on tenor sax, Gary Burton on vibraphone, Gene Cherico on bass, and Joe Hunt on drums.

RIP Astrud Gilberto (1940 - 2023)

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Domingo, 17h

Essa playlist tem mais de dez anos desde a primeira versão, que eu fiz com MP3 pra escutar no celular. Nunca postei porque nunca achei que estivesse pronta. Fiz várias mudanças recentes que foram mudando essa minha percepção. Com o que tenho vivido nos últimos dois meses, acho que fica até desnecessário explicar o que eu queria dizer sobre o sentimento de fim de tarde de domingo que tá nessa…

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Stacey Kent e Danilo Caymmi || Festival Jardins do Marquês: um sopro de Jobim nas vozes de Danilo e Kent

É sempre bom voltar a ouvir canções do maestro António Carlos Jobim. A eternidade da sua música apresentou-se, ontem, nas vozes de Stacey Kent e Danilo Caymmi. 

É sempre bom voltar a ouvir canções do maestro António Carlos Jobim. A eternidade da sua música apresentou-se, ontem, nas vozes de Stacey Kent e Danilo Caymmi.  Voltámos ao Festival Jardins do Marquês, que é algo que fazemos sempre com muito gosto. Dos sete dias do evento, o Altamont estará em cinco, garantidamente. Na sua quarta edição, o Festival da vila de Oeiras apresenta um cartaz de peso,…

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Summer 1962. Rio de Janeiro. At the Veloso Bar, a block from the beach at Ipanema, two friends—the composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and the poet Vinícius de Moraes—are drinking Brahma beer and musing about their latest song collaboration.

The duo favor the place for the good brew and the even better girl-watching opportunities. Though both are married men, they’re not above a little ogling. Especially when it comes to a neighborhood girl nicknamed Helô. Eighteen-year-old Heloisa Eneida Menezes Pais Pinto is a Carioca—a native of Rio. She’s tall and tan, with emerald green eyes and long, dark wavy hair. They’ve seen her passing by, as she’s heading to the beach or coming home from school. She has a way of walking that de Moraes calls “sheer poetry.”

Legend has it that Jobim and de Moraes were so inspired by this shapely coed, they wrote a song for her right on the bar napkins. It’s a good story, but it’s not quite true.

While Helô inspired the song, it was another Carioca who carried it beyond Rio. Astrud Gilberto was just the wife of singing star João Gilberto when she entered a NYC studio in March 1963. João and Jobim were making a record with tenor saxman Stan Getz. The idea of cutting a verse on “Ipanema” in English came up, and Astrud was the only one of the Brazilians who spoke more than phrasebook English.

Astrud’s child-like vocal, devoid of vibrato and singerly mannerisms, was the perfect foil for her husband’s soft bumblebee voice. Jobim tinkled piano. Getz blew a creamy smooth tenor. Four minutes of magic went to tape.

A year later, the song was casting its quiet spell of sea and sand on the charts, washing past the Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” It peaked in mid-June at No. 5, selling over two million copies.

“The Girl From Ipanema” went on to become the second-most recorded popular song in history, behind “Yesterday.” Covered by an A-Z gamut of performers, it’s become the ultimate cliché of elevator music—shorthand for the entire lounge revival of the ’90s.

Over the years, Helô Pinheiro (her married name) enjoyed country-wide fame, ranking with Pelé as one of the goodwill ambassadors of Brazil. She never settled on an occupation, dabbling in acting, then running a modeling agency. In 1987, she posed nude for Playboy (and again in 2003, with her daughter Ticiane). In 2001, Helô opened the Girl From Ipanema clothing boutique in a Rio shopping center.

Shortly after, the heirs of Jobim (who died in 1994) and de Moraes (who died in 1980) filed a lawsuit, claiming Helô was only inadvertently involved in the song’s creation and didn’t have the right to use it for commercial purposes.

Helô says, “I never made a cent from ‘The Girl From Ipanema,’ nor do I claim that I should. Yet now that I’m using a legally registered trademark, they want to prohibit me from being the girl from Ipanema. I’m sure that Antonio and Vinícius would never question the use of the name.”

After much ugliness in and out of court, Helô was able to keep the name for her boutique. Today, she reflects on the early ’60s in Ipanema with nostalgia. “I like the time when everything was prettier because of love, as it says in the Portuguese version of the song. I am still touched when somebody plays the song in my honor.”

—By Bill DeMain

Image: As a teenager, Helo Pinheiro was a regular on Rio's Ipanema Beach