Discmedi Blau

probably is the most outstanding and acclaimed female singer still on active service in the field of Brazilian Popular Music. Beloved by her compatriots, she's been able to carry with her all the sensuality, exuberance, lyricism and emotion of the warm Brazilian music through stages al around the world. She's a legend but there was a time, some moment in the middle of the 60's, in which she only was a youngster recently arrived to Rio de Janeiro from her home city of Salvador de Bahia stucked to the aim of being a professional singer. It was in her hard days as a newcomer to Rio scene when she was lucky enough to meet , already considered as the greatest poet of Brazilian music. The man who wrote tender and caressing words quickly realize the owned a voice which was able to fill with joy our hearts or, if necessary, drive us to the sweetest side of melancholy. He felt in love with that voice and so it was born a kind of unbreakable complicity and a deep mutual admiration that never stopped growing. It?s been forty years since they first met but nothing seems to have changed about s admiration for the one who was friend, partner and now it?s a loved memory. Nothing strange then in the fact that the singer has took the decision of walking again the paths of her past to record the songs of one of the most brilliant composers of all time, . She turns her eyes back to the familiar words and enchanting arrangements and harmonies of the songs Vinicius wrote with such extraordinaire partners as , , and , among many, many others. Old melodies that s voice gently sings with intense love and respect in truly beautiful album.