- 1ComidaLyricsVideoArnaldo Antunes / Marcelo Fromer / Sérgio Britto
BEBIDA É ÁGUA.
COMIDA É PASTO.
VOCÊ TEM SEDE DE QUÊ?
VOCÊ TEM FOME DE QUÊ?
A GENTE NÃO QUER SÓ COMIDA,
A GENTE QUER COMIDA,
DIVERSÃO E ARTE.
A GENTE NÃO QUER SÓ COMIDA,A GENTE QUER SAÍDA
PARA QUALQUER PARTE
A GENTE NÃO QUER SÓ COMIDA,
A GENTE QUER BEBIDA,
DIVERSÃO, BALÉ.
A GENTE NÃO QUER SÓ COMIDA,
A GENTE QUER A VIDA
COMO A VIDA QUER.
BEBIDA É ÁGUA.
COMIDA É PASTO.
VOCÊ TEM SEDE DE QUÊ?VOCÊ TEM FOME DE QUÊ?
A GENTE NÃO QUER SÓ COMER,
A GENTE QUER COMER
E QUER FAZER AMOR.
A GENTE NÃO QUER SÓ COMER,
A GENTE QUER PRAZER
PRA ALIVIAR A DOR.
A GENTE NÃO QUER SÓ DINHEIRO,
A GENTE QUER DINHEIRO
E FELICIDADE.
A GENTE NÃO QUER SÓ DINHEIRO,A GENTE QUER INTEIRO
E NÃO PELA METADE.
BEBIDA É ÁGUA.
COMIDA É PASTO.
VOCÊ TEM SEDE DE QUÊ?
VOCÊ TEM FOME DE QUÊ? - 2Bem Que Se QuisLyricsVideoPino Danielle / Nelson Motta
BEM QUE SE QUIS
DEPOIS DE TUDO
AINDA SER FELIZ
MAS JÁ NÃO HÁ CAMINHO
PRA VOLTAR.O QUE É QUE A VIDA FEZ
DA NOSSA VIDA?
O QUE É QUE A GENTE
NÃO FAZ POR AMOR?
MAS TANTO FAZ,
JÁ ME ESQUECI DE
TE ESQUECER PORQUE
O TEU DESEJO
É O MEU MELHOR PRAZER
E O MEU DESTINO
É QUERER SEMPRE MAIS
A MINHA ESTRADA
CORRE PRO TEU MAR.AGORA VEM
PRA PERTO VEM
VEM DEPRESSA VEM SEM FIM
DENTRO DE MIM
QUE EU QUERO SENTIR
O TEU CORPO PESANDO
SOBRE O MEU
VEM MEU AMOR
VEM PRA MIM,
ME ABRAÇA DEVAGAR,
ME BEIJA E ME FAZ ESQUECER. - 3ChocolateLyricsVideoTim Maia
CHOCOLATE,
CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE
EU SÓ QUERO CHOCOLATE
SÓ QUERO CHOCOLATE
NÃO ADIANTA VIR COM
GUARANÁ PRA MIM
É CHOCOLATE
O QUE EU QUERO BEBER* NÃO QUERO PÓ
NÃO QUERO RAPÉ
NÃO QUERO COCAÍNA
ME LIGUEI NO CHOCOLATE
EU ME LIGUEI
SÓ QUERO CHOCOLATE
NÃO ADIANTA VIR
COM GUARANÁ PRA MIM
É CHOCOLATE
O QUE EU QUERO BEBERCHOCOLATE,
CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE
NÃO ADIANTA VIR
COM GUARANÁ PRA MIM
É CHOCOLATE
O QUE EU QUERO BEBERNÃO QUERO CHÁ
NÃO QUERO CAFÉ
NÃO QUERO COCA-COLA
ME LIGUEI NO CHOCOLATE
SÓ QUERO CHOCOLATE
EU SÓ QUERO CHOCOLATE
SÓ QUERO CHOCOLATE
NÃO ADIANTA VIR
COM GUARANÁ PRA MIM
É CHOCOLATE
O QUE EU QUERO BEBER. - 4Ando Meio DesligadoLyricsVideoArnaldo Baptista / Sérgio Baptista / Rita Lee
ANDO MEIO DESLIGADO
EU NEM SINTO MEUS PÉS
NO CHÃO OLHO
E NÃO VEJO NADA
EU SÓ PENSO
SE VOCÊ ME QUEREU NEM VEJO A HORA
DE TE DIZER
AQUILO TUDO QUE EU DECOREI
E DEPOIS DO BEIJO
QUE EU JÁ SONHEI
VOCÊ VAI SENTIR
MAS POR FAVOR
NÃO LEVE A MALEU SÓ QUERO QUE VOCÊ
ME QUEIRA NÃO
LEVE A MAL - 5Preciso Me EncontrarLyricsSamba de Candeia
DEIXE-ME IR, PRECISO ANDAR
VOU POR AÍ A PROCURAR
RIR PRA NÃO CHORARQUERO ASSISTIR AO SOL NASCER
VER AS ÀGUAS DOS RIOS CORRER
OUVIR OS PÁSSAROS CANTAR
EU QUERO NASCER,
QUERO VIVERDEIXE-ME IR PRECISO ANDAR
VOU POR AÍ A PROCURAR
RIR PRA NÃO CHORARSE ALGUÉM
POR MIM PERGUNTAR
DIGA QUE EU
SÓ VOU VOLTAR
QUANDO EU ME ENCONTRARQUERO ASSISTIR AO SOL NASCER
VER AS ÁGUAS DO RIO CORRER
OUVIR OS PÁSSAROS CANTAR
EU QUERO NASCER,
QUERO VIVERDEIXE-ME IR,
PRECISO ANDAR
VOU POR AÍ A PROCURAR
RIR PRA NÃO CHORAR - 6Xote das MeninasLyricsZé Dantas / Luiz Gonzaga
MANDACARU QUANDO
FULORÁ NA SECA
E UM SINÁ QUE A CHUVA
CHEGA NO SERTÃO
TODA MENINA
QUE ENJÔA DA BONECA
É SINAL DE QUE
O AMOR JÁ CHEGOU NO CORAÇÃO
MEIA COMPRIDA
NÃO QUER MAIS SAPATO BAIXO
VESTIDO BEM CINTADO
NÃO QUER MAIS VESTIR GIBÃO
ELA SÓ QUER
SÓ PENSA EM NAMORAR (BIS)DE MANHÃ CEDO
JÁ TÁ PINTADA
SÓ VIVE SUSPIRANDO
SONHANDO ACORDADA
O PAI LEVA AO DOUTOR
A FILHA ADOENTADA
NÃO COME NEM ESTUDA
NÃO DORME NEM QUER NADA
ELA SÓ QUER
SÓ PENSA EM NAMORAR
ELA SÓ QUER
SÓ PENSA EM NAMORAR
ELA SÓ QUER
SÓ PENSA EM NAMORARMAS O DOUTOR NEM EXAMINA
CHAMANDO O PAI DO LADO
LHE DIZ LOGO EM SURDINA
QUE O MAL É DA IDADE
E QUE PRA TAL MENINA
NÃO HÁ UM SÓ REMÉDIO
EM TODA MEDICINA
ELA SÓ QUER
ELA SÓ PENSA EM NAMORAR - 7Negro GatoLyricsVideoGetúlio Cortes
EU SOU UM NEGRO GATO
DE ARREPIAR
ESSA MINHA HISTÓRIA
É MESMO DE AMARGAR
SÓ MESMO DE UM TELHADO
AOS OUTROS DESACATOEU SOU UM NEGRO GATO
MINHA TRISTE HISTÓRIA
VOU IHES CONTAR
E DEPOIS DE OUVI-LA
SEI QUE VÃO CHORAR
HÁ TEMPOS
QUE EU NÃO SEI
O QUE É UM BOM PRATOEU SOU UM NEGRO GATO
SETE VIDAS TENHO
PARA VIVER
SETE CHANCES TENHO
PARA VENCER
MAS SE NÃO COMER
ACABO NUM BURACOEU SOU UM NEGRO GATO
UM DIA LÁ NO MORRO
POBRE DE MIM
QUERIAM MINHA PELE
PARA TAMBORIM
APAVORADO DESAPARECI NO MATOEU SOU UM NEGRO GATO
- 8Lenda das SereiasLyricsVideoVicente / Dionel / Veloso
OGUNTÊ, MARABÔ
CAIALA, E SOBÁ
OLOXUM, YNAÊ
JANAINA E, YEMANJÁO MAR MISTERIOSO MAR
QUE VEM DO HORIZONTE
É O BERÇO DAS SEREIAS
LENDÁRIO E FASCINANTEOLHA O CANTO DA SEREIA
LALAÓ, OQUÊ, IALOÁ
EM NOITE DE LUA CHEIA
OUÇO A SEREIA CANTARE O LUAR SORRINDO
ENTÃO SE ENCANTA
COM A DOCE MELODIA
OS MADRIGAIS
VÃO DESPERTARELA MORA NO MAR
ELA BRINCA NA AREIA
NO BALANÇO DAS ONDAS
A PAZ ELA SEMEIA
E QUEM É?OGUNTÊ, MARABÔ
CAIALA, E SOBÁ
OLOXUM, YNAÊ
JANAINA, E YEMANJÁOLHA O CANTO DA SEREIA
LALAÓ, OQUÊ, IALOÀ
EM NOITE DE LUA CHEIA
OUÇO A SEREIA CANTAR - 9South American WayLyricsVideoAl Dubim / Jimmy McHugh
AI, AI, AI, AI
É O CANTO DO PRIGONEIRO
QUE COM SUA HARMONIA
TRAZ ALEGRIA
IN SOUTH AMERICAN WAYAI, AI, AI, AI
E O QUE FAZ EM SEU TABULEIRO
VENDE PRA IOIÔE VENDE PRA IAIÁ
IN SOUTH AMERICAN WAY
E VENDE VATAPÁ
E VENDE CARURU
E VENDE MUNGUNZÁ
VENDE UMBUNO TABULEIRO TEM
OI TEM DE TUDO TEM
E SÓ NÃO TEM MEU BEM
BERENGUENDEMAI, AI, AI, AI
HAVE YOU EVER DANCED
IN THE TROPICS?
WITH THAT HAZY LAZY
LIKE, KIND OF CRAZY
LIKE SOUTH AMERICAN WAYAI, AI, AI, AI
HAVE YOU EVER KISSED
IN THE MOON LIGHT
IN THE GRAND AND GLORIOUS
GAY NOTORIOUS
SOUTH AMERICAN WAY - 10I Heard It Through The GrapevineLyricsVideoNorman Whitfield / Barret Strong
I BET YOU WONDERIN’
HOW I KNEW
‘BOUT YOUR PLANS
TO MAKE ME BLUE
WITH SOME OTHER GUY
YOU KNEW BEFORE
BETWEEN TWO OF US GUYS
YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU MOREIT TOOK ME BY SURPRISE
I MUST SAY
WHEN I FOUND YOU YESTERDAY
DON’T YOU KNOW THAT
I HEARD IT
THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE,
NOT MUCH LONGER
WOULD YOU BE MINE
UHH UHH HEARD IT
THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
OH I’M JUST ABOUT
TO LOSE MY MIND
HONEY HONEY, OH BABY
OOH OOH HONEY HONEY
I KNOW A MAN
AIN’T SUPPOSED TO CRY
BUT THESE TEARS
I CAN’T HOLD INSIDE
LOSIN’ YOU
WOULD END MY LIFE YOU SEE
CAUSE YOU MEAN
THAT MUCH TO ME
YOU COULD HAVE
TOLD ME YOURSELF
THAT YOU LOVED
SOMEONE ELSEINSTEAD
I HEARD IT
THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
NOT MUCH LONGER
WOULD YOU BE MINE
OHH I HEARD IT
THOUGHT THE GRAPEVINE
AND I’M JUST ABOUT
TO LOSE MY MIND
HONEY HONEY
PEOPLE SAY
BELIEVE HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE
OH, AND NONE
OF WHAT YOUR HEAR
BUT I CAN’T HELP
BUT BE CONFUSED
IF IT’S TRUE
PLEASE TELL ME DEAR
DO YOU PLAN TO LET ME GO
FOR THE OTHER GUY
YOU LOVED BEFORE? - 11Bess, You Is My Woman Now!LyricsVideoGeorge Gershwin / DuBose Heyward / Ira Gershwin
PORGY
BESS, YOU IS MY WOMAN NOW!
YOU IS! YOU IS!
AN’ YOU MUS! LAUGH AN’ SING
AN’ DANCE FOR TWO
INSTEAD OF ONE
WANT NO WRINKLE ON YO!BROW, NO- HOW.
BECAUSE DE SORROW
OF THE PAST
IS ALL DONE DONE
OH, BESS, MY BESS,
DE REAL HAPPINESS
IS JES’ BEGUN!BESS
PORGY, I’S YO’ WOMAN NOW!
I IS, I IS!
AN’ I AIN’ NEVER GOIN’ NOWHERE
LESS YOU SHARES DE FUN
DERE’S NO WRINKLE
ON MY BROW, NO-HOW
BUT I AIN’ GOIN’!
YOU HEAR ME SAYIN’
IF YOU-AIN’ GOIN’,
WID YOU L’M STAYIN’.
PORGY, I’S YO’ WOMAN NOW,
I’S YOURS FOREVER
MORNIN’ TIME AN’ EVENIN’ TIME
AN’ SUMMER TIME AN’ WINTER TIMEPORGY
MORNIN’ TIME AN’ EVENIN’ TIME
AN’ SUMMER TIME AN’ WINTER TIME
BESS, YOU GOT YO’ MAN!
BESS, YOU IS MY WOMAN
NOW AN’ FOREVER
DIS LIFE IS JES’ BEGUN
BESS WE TWO IS ONE
NOW AN’ FOREVER
OH BESS, DON’ MIN’
DOSE WOMEN
YOU GOT YO’ PORGY
YOU LOVES YO’ PORGY
I KNOWS YOU MEANS IT,
I SEEN IT IN YO’ EYES, BESS
WE’LL GO SWINGIN’
THROUGH DE YEARS A-SINGIN’
HMMM… MOMIN’ TIME
AN’ EVENIN’ TIME
AN’ SUMMER TIME AN’ WINTER TIME
MY BESS, MY BESS,
FROM DIS MINUTE I’M TELLIN’ YOU
I KEEP DIS VOW, OH MY BESSIE
WE’S HAPPY NOW
WE IS ONE NOWBESS
PORGY, I’S YO WOMAN NOW!
I IS! I IS!
AN’ I AIN’ NEVER
GOIN’ NOWHERE’
LESS YOU SHARES THE FUN
DERE’S NO WRINKLE
ON MY BROWN, NO-HOW
BUT I AIN’GOIN’!
YOU HEAR ME SAYIN’
IF YOU AIN GOIN’,
WID YOU I’M STAYN’.
PORGY I’S YO WOMAN NOW!
I’S YOURS FOREVER
MORNIN’TIME AN’ EVENIN’TIMEAN’ SUMMER TIME
AN’ WINTER TIME
OH MY PORGY, MY MAN PORGY
FROM DIS MINUTE
I’M TELLIN’ YOU,
I KEEP DIS VOW, PORGY
I’S YO’ WOMAN NOW - 12Speak LowLyricsVideoOgden Nash / Kurt Weill
SPEAK LOW
WHEN YOU SPEAK LOVE
OUR SUMMER DAY
WITHERS AWAY
TOO SOON, TOO SOONSPEAK LOW
WHEN YOU SPEAK LOVE
OUR MOMENT IS SWIFT
LIKE SHIPS ADRIFT,WERE SWEPT APART
TOO SOON
SPEAK LOW
DARLING SPEAK LOW
LOVE IS A SPARK
LOST IN THE DARK
TOO SOON, TOO SOONI FEEL
WHEREVER I GO
THAT TOMORROW IS HERE
TOMORROW IS NEAR
AND ALWAYS TOO SOON
TIME IS SO OLD
AND LOVE’S SO BRIEF
LOVE IS PURE GOLD
AND TIME A THIEF.WE’RE LATE,
DARLING WE’RE LATETHE CURTAIN DESCENDS,
EVERYTHING ENDS
TOO SOON, TOO SOON
I WAIT,
DARLING I WAIT
WHEN YOU SPEAK LOW TO ME,
SPEAK LOVE TO ME AND SOON. Princípios (1989-1992) – Ao Vivo
- 1These Are the Songs (feat. Ed Motta)LyricsVideoTim Maia
THESE ARE THE SONGS
I WANNA SING
THESE ARE THE SONGS
I WANNA PLAY
I WANNA SING IT EVERY TIME
SING IT EVERY DAY
THESE ARE THE SONGS
I WANNA SING AND PLAYESTA É A CANÇÃO QUE EU VOU OUVIR
ESTA É A CANÇÃO QUE EU VOU CANTAR
FALA DE VOCÊ, MEU BEM
E DO NOSSO AMOR, TAMBÉM
SEI QUE VOCÊ VAI GOSTAR - 2Eu Não Sou Da Sua RuaLyricsVideoBranco Melo / Arnaldo Antunes
EU NÃO SOU DA SUA RUA,
EU NÃO SOU O SEU VIZINHO.
EU MORO MUITO LONGE, SOZINHO.ESTOU AQUI DE PASSAGEM.
EU NÃO SOU DA SUA RUA,
EU NÃO FALO A SUA LÍNGUA,
MINHA VIDA É DIFERENTE DA SUA.ESTOU AQUI DE PASSAGEM.
ESSE MUNDO NÃO É MEU,
ESSE MUNDO NÃO É SEU. - 3De noite na camaLyricsVideoCaetano Veloso
DE NOITE NA CAMA, EU FICO PENSANDO
SE VOCÊ ME AMA… E QUANDO
SE VOCÊ ME AMA, EU FICO PENSANDO
DE NOITE, NA CAMA… E QUANDO
DE DIA EU FAÇO GRAÇA
PRA NÃO DAR BANDEIRA
NÃO DEIXO VOCÊ VER
DE DIA TUDO PASSA
COMO BRINCADEIRA
POR LONGE DE VOCÊ
POR ONDE VOCÊ MORA
PARA E SE DEMORA
POR HORA NÃO VOU TER
CORAGEM DE DIZER
MAS HÁ DE HAVER A HORA…
SE VOCÊ FOR EMBORA
AGORA
DE NOITE, NA CAMA, EU FICO PENSANDO
SE VOCÊ ME AMA E QUANDO
SE VOCÊ ME AMA, EU FICO PENSANDO
DE NOITE NA CAMA E QUANDO - 4Você não serve pra mimLyricsChordsVideoRenato Barros
NÃO FIQUE TRISTE, NÃO SE ZANGUE
COM TUDO QUE EU VOU LHE FALAR
SINTO DEMAIS , PORÉM AGORA
TENHO QUE LHE EXPLICAR
VOCÊ COMIGO NÃO COMBINA
NÃO ADIANTA NEM TENTAR
NÃO VEJO MAIS RAZÃO NENHUMA
PRA CONTINUARNÃO QUERO MAIS SEU AMOR
NÃO PENSE QUE EU SOU RUIM
VOU PROCURAR OUTRO ALGUÉM
VOCÊ
NÃO SERVE PRA MIM
NÃO SERVE PRA MIM
NÃO SERVE PRAUMA PALAVRA DE CARINHO
JAMAIS OUVI VOCÊ FALAR
SEU BEIJO TÃO INDIFERENTE
FOI O QUE ME FEZ PENSAR
NO TEMPO QUE EU ESTOU PERDENDO
NO AMOR QUE EU TENHO PRA DAR
DEVE EXISTIR ALGUÉM QUERENDO
O QUE VOCÊ NÃO QUIS ME DARNÃO QUERO MAIS SEU AMOR
NÃO PENSE QUE EU SOU RUIM
VOU PROCURAR OUTRO ALGUÉM
VOCÊPODE SER QUE ALGUÉM LHE QUEIRA
DAR UM GRANDE AMOR
QUERO QUE VOCÊ SEJA FELIZ COM
OUTRO ALGUÉMPORQUE EU
NÃO QUERO MAIS SEU AMOR
NÃO PENSE QUE EU SOU RUIM
VOU PROCURAR OUTRO ALGUÉM
VOCÊ
NÃO SERVE PRA MIM
NÃO SERVE PRA MIM - 5Não quero dinheiroLyricsChordsVideoTim Maia
TE ESPERO PARA VER SE VOCÊ VEM
NÃO TE TROCO NESSA VIDA POR NINGUÉM
PORQUE EU TE AMO
EU TE QUERO BEM
ACONTECE QUE NA VIDA A GENTE TEM
QUE SER FELIZ POR SER AMADO POR ALGUÉM
PORQUE EU TE AMO
EU TE ADORO, MEU AMOR!A SEMANA INTEIRA FIQUEI ESPERANDO
PRA TE VER SORRINDO
PRA TE VER CANTANDO
QUANDO A GENTE AMA NÃO PENSA EM DINHEIRO
SÓ SE QUER AMAR
SE QUER AMARDE JEITO MANEIRA
NÃO QUERO DINHEIRO
QUERO AMOR SINCERO
ISSO QUE EU ESPERO
DIGO AO MUNDO INTEIRO
NÃO QUERO DINHEIRO
EU SÓ QUERO AMARVOU PEDIR PRA VOCÊ VOLTAR
VOU PEDIR PRA VOCÊ FICAR
EU TE AMO
EU TE QUERO BEM
VOU PEDIR PRA VOCÊ GOSTAR
VOU PEDIR PRA VOCÊ ME AMAR
EU TE AMO
EU TE ADORO, MEU AMOR - 6Volte para o seu larLyricsChordsVideoArnaldo Antunes
AQUI NESSA CASA NINGUÉM QUER A SUA BOA EDUCAÇÃO.
NOS DIAS QUE TEM COMIDA, COMEMOS COMIDA COM A MÃO.
E QUANDO A POLÍCIA, A DOENÇA, A DISTÂNCIA OU ALGUMA DISCUSSÃO
NOS SEPARAM DE UM IRMÃO,
SENTIMOS QUE NUNCA ACABA DE CABER MAIS DOR NO CORAÇÃO.
MAS NÃO CHORAMOS À TOA,
NÃO CHORAMOS À TOAAQUI NESSA TRIBO NINGUÉM QUERA SUA CATEQUIZAÇÃO.
FALAMOS A SUA LÍNGUA MAS NÃO ENTENDEMOS SEU SERMÃO.
NÓS RIMOS ALTO, BEBEMOS E FALAMOS PALAVRÃO
MAS NÃO SORRIMOS À TOA.
NÃO SORRIMOS À TOA.AQUI NESSE BARCO NINGUÉM QUERA SUA ORIENTAÇÃO.
NÃO TEMOS PERSPECTIVA, MAS O VENTO NOS DÁ A DIREÇÃO.
A VIDA QUE VAI À DERIVAÉ A NOSSA CONDUÇÃO.
MAS NÃO SEGUIMOS À TOA
NÃO SEGUIMOS À TOA.VOLTE PARA O SEU LAR,
VOLTE PARA LÁ.
Credits
Produced // Nelson Motta
Art Direction // Jorge Davidson
Executive Production // Lula Buarque de Hollanda
Musical Direction // Eduardo Souto Neto
Technical Direction // Sérgio Bittencourt
Recording and Mixing // Sérgio Bittencourt, Renato Luiz e Geraldo Murro
Maintenance Supervision // Jorge Nunes
Recording Assistants // Ricardo e Márcio
Graphic Project // Claudio Torres
Cover Photos // Fotograma do especial Marisa Monte
Inside Cover Photos // Márcia Ramalho
CD's Art // Egeu Laus
Graphical Coordination // Tice Mousinho e Gualter Pupo
Percussion // Marcos Suzano
Bass // Ronaldo Diamante
Trumpet // Saulo Dansa
Electric Guitar // Paulinho Muylaert
Piano // Roberto Alves
Drums // Edu Szajnbrum
Backvocals // Letícia Monte, Suzana Ribeiro e Joana Motta
String Quartet // (Bess you is my woman now)
Violins // Michel Bessier e Bernardo Bessler,
Cello // Jaques Morelenbaum
Viola // Marie Christine Bessler
Release
The premiére MM was almost in its totality recorded on the stage of Teatro Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro, in September, 1988. Through this album Marisa opens her way towards the large public, exposing her identity via a repertoire with no frontiers. Here one finds the Portela samba schools Candeia (Preciso me encontrar); the Tropicalist Mutantes (Ando meio desligado); and even the Gershwin brothers (Bess, you is my woman now), besides one of her major hits, Bem que se quis, a version made by Nelson Motta of the composition created by the Italian musician Pino Daniele.
FROM NELSON MOTTA:
I met Marisa Monte when she was 18 years old, by the end of 1985, in Rio de Janeiro. I met her, as a request from my sister, which was a friend with Marisa's mother. She wanted guidance on singing teachers and schools in Rome, Italy, where I was living, and where Marisa was going to study.
The girl had singing lessons since she was 14 years old and wanted to be an opera singer, but she also liked and was very aware about the Jazz culture and the Brazilian music. I gave her some names and addresses, and then I returned to Italy and did not see her again. Months later, when I was in Rome, I heard about her again through the journalist Monica Falcone. Marisa was going to study in Venice, and was staying at a friend's house; she also told me that those few months in Rome had been enough to understand that she would not be happy living outside of Brazil and that in order to make a career in the Opera she would need to live abroad.
Marisa thought that her brief experience through the Italian academies and Italian teachers was not something she was looking forward to repeat. She was determined on going back to Brazil. But the next day she would perform in an improvised little show at a Venice bar, accompanied only by her friend, Roberto Bortolucci, in the acoustic guitar. Roberto was a great musician and also a cameriere, married with a Brazilian beauty, he was a MPB enthusiast and a master of rhythms and harmonies for the main songs of Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil and many others....
I decided to leave for Venice, senselessly, instinctively and intuitively. I have heard only her humming in my house and I just felt she had a beautiful tone. In Venice, at a small open bar to the sidewalk, with a medium quality microphone, she starts to sing, and what a voice! The audience, no more than fifty people, liked her and started to cheer her, even more at each song. More people starts to gather outside the bar, there is even people at the edge of the channel, applauding. The girl had not only a beautiful voice, but she sang very beautifully, with style. I went back to Rome.
I returned to Brazil in March ‘87 and Marisa came to me to say she had decided to sing professionally, she told me that she now had a producer - Lula Buarque de Hollanda - and that she would perform a show directed by Rogéria Werneck. Marisa wanted to talk about her repertoire.
Hearing her sing Tim Maia, Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Maria Callas, Roberto Carlos, Billie...- sorry, Elis Regina - I offered to direct her. We started rehearsing with a young piano student, Luiz Eca, after gathering an early repertoire that had a bit of blues, samba, bossa nova, funk. We spent a couple of months on it, seeking melodies and rhythms, tones and expressions, exercising styles. We called a bass player; a percussionist, who was a friend of Marisa, came up with a drummer and Lula hired the entire band to rehearse for the four day JazzMania festival, two months later.
On September 23rd, she made her debut to an almost sold out JazzMania festival. The microphone sound was bad, but the band was tight, and after a nervous and much applauded opening set, she returned with a rendition of the song "Negro Gato", turning it into a heavy bluesy-rock, and she nailed it. Among those who most applauded and cheered her were Sylvia Monique Gardemberg, Marina, Patricia Travassos, Euclydes Marino and Leo Jaime. In the second night the sound was improved and she made a great performance, singing "Speak Low" by Kurt Weil; "Chocolate", by Tim Maia; a torrid blues version of "Samba e Amor", by Chico Buarque, and "Cartão Postal", which was a beautiful blues wrote by Rita Lee and Paulo Coelho, in the early '70s. Marisa had discovered and invented a more modern way of interpreting the songs, among other various genres, some more and others less suited to her voice and temper.
Marisa was experiencing it to the fullest, within all genres, searching for her own style of expressing her music, in a different way - the way she liked to sing - harmonizing the songs with her vast vocal technique, gained through her long and hard lyrical learning. She was provided with an intense musicality and an indefatigable and almost obsessive curiosity to listen and learn from the greatest artists, schools and latitudes of all time. On the third morning, the entire first page of the "Caderno B" in the Jornal do Brasil contained a critic review by Alfredo Ribeiro and a great photo of Marisa with the classic headline: "A Star Is Born." It heralded the arrival of a future great singer and gave five stars to her performance. At the same night, the JazzMania was overcrowded and the next day was completely sold out. In the both following nights, Marisa sang very well, and was acclaimed and praised by the likes of Mariah Carey, Perfeito Fortuna, Bernardo Vilhena, Marília Pera, Bruno Barreto, Regina Casé and Caetano Veloso. Maria Bethânia, like Marina, also praised her, for her beautiful tone, musicality and personality - to them she was unique. "I want to sing to delight and thrill my audience," says Marisa.
Almost two months later, with a slightly modified repertoire, and now with the addition of a trumpeter to the band, she returned to JazzMania for other four nights. On the first day, the entire four days were already sold out. Her performances were beautiful, safer and much more applauded by a now standing audience, which is not very common in bars. She received another great review by Paul Adário of the Jornal do Brasil. The show was called "Tudo Veludo" (All Velvet) and it featured, within the sad and dramatic song by Lobão and Bernardo, one of the most beautiful moments of her performance.
On January of '88, Marisa was praised as the "revelation of the year" by the press in Rio de Janeiro. She made her first theater season, at the Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim. In midsummer, the air conditioning broke and the heat was unbearable. But no one was willing to left the place, everyone was drenched in sweat, each night, for two weeks, and the tickets were sold out days in advance. She was seen and heard by Sérgio Augusto, who wrote a whole page review for the Folha de São Paulo newspaper. He was mesmerized by this new singer and - among other enthusiasms – praised her as "the greatest vocal talent since Gal Costa." Gal came to her concerts at the Teatro Ipanema. She cheered her voice and, in Argentina, she gave an interview saying that Marisa was, beside Cazuza, one of the best things in the Brazilian music scene and, even not yet with a well-defined repertoire, “would be placed, without no doubt as one of the greatest Brazilian singers of an era.” Marisa's debut on the stage was at the age of 15, in a rendition of the "Rock Horror Show", directed by Miguel Falabella, with the students of the college Andrews, in 1982. Followed by that, she had a small role singing in the "Blue" musical, by André Felipe Mauro. She made semiprofessional performances in the "O Viro da Ipiranga" and "Double Dose" bars, in the southern area of Rio de Janeiro.
On March 4 and 5, of 1988, Marisa performed for the first time in São Paulo. She was invited to the Nouvelle Cuisine at the Grande Auditório of MASP. The overcrowded audience applauded so much that, in both nights, they had an encore for "Bess You Is My Woman Now" from the "Porgy and Bess" opera, by Gershwin. Her duo with Carlos Fernando was greeted with enthusiasm by the São Paulo press and two weeks later she was performing for five nights in a roll into an overcrowded Aeroanta with her "Aeroshow" - a more compact version of the show that she would perform on the following week at the Grande Auditório of MASP. During her season in Aeroanta there was always more than 200 spectators beyond the full capacity of the venue, they would gather across the floor and corridors, standing and applauding every night. She received excellent reviews and her first press controversy. The show was called "Cantando na Avenida" (Singing in the Avenue).
After that, she performed at the Teatro Ipanema: two sold out weeks with great reviews by the O Globo, Jornal do Brasil and Última Hora newspapers. “An absolutely extraordinary talent” (Paulo Adário – JB). At the “Show do Ipanema”, Marisa added the “Lenda das Sereias” samba to her repertoire, with afro arrangements, also turning a little poem by Octavio Paz into a song by the opening of “Blanco”. The band was now added by a guitar player and three backing vocals, that a follow her since her season at the Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim.
In Belo Horizonte, she performed at the Cabaret Mineiro for three sold out nights with the same sextet, but without the backing vocals. The reviews were more than great. She returned to São Paulo with the show "Volta a Sampa" (Back to Sampa). In July she performed for a week at the MASP and one more week at the Teatro Cultura Artística. The same thing happened. By the end of September she had five shows at the Teatro Villa-Lobos, in Rio de Janeiro, built especially to be recorded live by the EMI-Odeon record company and filmed for a TV special for the TV Manchete. The first album is a result of these live recordings held on September 30, and October 1, 2 and 3 of '88. In the studio, among the various versions of 16 songs, 11 were selected to cut for the album, which received minor corrections and additions and some instrumental countermelodies that Marisa created over the recorded material. In the studio, with the other musicians, a new live version of "Speak Low" - under the inspiration of João Gilberto – was recorded.
November, 1988