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Track: João E Maria
Artist: Nara Leão
Album: 20 Grandes Sucessos De Nara Leao

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Name: Nara Leão
Spotify Genres: bossa nova, mpb, brazilian jazz
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Nara Lofego Leão (born January 19, 1942 in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil; died June 7, 1989) was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB (popular Brazilian music) singer and occasional actress. She was known as "the muse of bossa nova". Her husband was [a=Carlos Diegues], director and writer of Bye Bye Brasil. Nara's sister is Danuza Leão, a former model and socialite who's a newspaper columnist and occasional TV commentator. Danuza was married to Brazilian journalist Samuel Wainer. When Nara was twelve, her father gave her a guitar since he was worried about her being shy. Popular musician and composer Patricio Teixeira and classical guitarist Solon Ayala were her teachers. While still a teenager, she met a number of singers and composers who took part of Bossa Nova's musical revolution, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim. By 1963, after singing as an amateur for a few years, she became a professional and toured with Sérgio Mendes. In the mid-1960s, the institution of military dictatorship in Brazil led her to sing increasingly political lyrics. Her show Opinião reflected her political beliefs and she had largely switched to political music by this point. In 1964, she even spoke against bossa nova as a movement, calling it "alienating". In 1968, she appeared on the album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses, performing Lindonéia. She later left Brazil for Paris and in the 1970s abandoned music to focus on her family. She returned to music later and when she discovered, in 1979, that she had an inoperable brain tumor she increased her productivity as much as possible in her remaining ten years.

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Release: Chico Buarque E Nara Leão / Gal Costa - João E Maria / Solitude
Year: 1979
Genres: Latin, Stage & Screen
Styles: MPB, Soundtrack

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LYRICS

Agora eu era o herói
E o meu cavalo só falava inglês
A noiva do cowboy era você além das outras três
Eu enfrentava os batalhões, os alemães e seus canhões
Guardava o meu bodoque e ensaiava o rock para as matinês
Agora eu era o rei
Era o bedel e era também juiz
E pela minha lei a gente era obrigada a ser feliz
E você era a princesa que eu fiz coroar
E era tão linda de se admirar
Que andava nua pelo meu país

Não, não fuja não
Finja que agora eu era o seu brinquedo
Eu era o seu pião, o seu bicho preferido
Vem, me dê a mão, a gente agora já não tinha medo
No tempo da maldade acho que a gente nem tinha nascido
Agora era fatal que o faz-de-conta terminasse assim
Pra lá desse quintal era uma noite que não tem mais fim
Pois você sumiu no mundo sem me avisar
E agora eu era um louco a perguntar
O que é que a vida vai fazer de mim.