Elis Regina
Background information
Birth name	Elis Regina Carvalho Costa
Also known as	Pimentinha or Furacão
Born	March 17, 1945(1945-03-17) Porto Alegre, Brazil
Died	January 19, 1982 (aged 36) São Paulo, Brazil
Genre(s)	Bossa nova, MPB
Years active	1961 – 1982

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 1982) was a singer of Brazilian popular music who achieved great success and recognition during her lifetime. She remains one of the most popular and beloved stars in Brazil. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Nickname: Coordinates: , Country Brazil Region South State Rio Grande do Sul Government  - Mayor José Fogaça (PPS) Area  - City 496. ... is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the city. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Bossa nova (disambiguation). ... MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) is a specific musical genre of Brazilian popular music that employs sophisticated lyrics, melodies, and harmonies in which the commercial aspect is subordinate to the performers artistic standards. ... See also: 1960 in music, other events of 1961, 1962 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 15 - Motown Records signs The Supremes January 20 - Francis Poulencs Gloria is premiered in Boston February 12 - The Miracles Shop Around becomes Motowns first... See also: 1982 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1982 Record labels established in 1982 list of years in music // January 15 - K.C. and the Sunshine Bands Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida. ... is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Música Popular Brasileira, or MPB, literally Brazilian Popular Music, designating a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. ...

Biography

Elis Regina was born in Porto Alegre, where she began her career as singer at age 11 on a children's radio show, called O Clube Do Guri on Rádio Farroupilha. In 1959, she was contracted by Rádio Gaúcha and in the next year she travelled to Rio de Janeiro where she recorded her first LP, Viva a Brotolândia. Nickname: Coordinates: , Country Brazil Region South State Rio Grande do Sul Government  - Mayor José Fogaça (PPS) Area  - City 496. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Brazilian city. ...

She won her first festival song contest in 1965 singing Arrastão (The Trawling Net)^[1] by Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes, which, when released as a single, made her the biggest selling Brazilian recording artist since Carmen Miranda. The second LP with Jair Rodrigues, Dois na Bossa, set a national sales record and first LP to achieve over one million copies. Arrastão by Elis also launched her career for a national audience since that festival was broadcasted via Tv and radio. As for the history of brazilian music it represented the beginning of a new music style that would be known as MPB (Música Popular Brasileira or Brazilian Popular Music), distinguished from the previous bossa nova. Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Eduardo de Góes (Edu) Lobo (born August 29, 1943) is a Brazilian bossa nova singer and composer. ... Vinicius de Moraes (October 19, 1913 - July 9, 1980), born as Marcus Vinícius da Cruz de Melo Morais in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music. ... Carmen Miranda, pron. ... Música Popular Brasileira, or MPB, literally Brazilian Popular Music, designating a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. ... For other uses, see Bossa nova (disambiguation). ...

In the late '60s and early '70s, Elis Regina helped to popularize the work of the tropicalia movement, recording songs by musicians such as Gilberto Gil. Her 1974 collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elis & Tom, is often cited as one of the greatest bossa nova albums of all time. She also recorded songs by Milton Nascimento, João Bosco, Aldir Blanc, Chico Buarque, Jorge Ben, Baden Powell, Caetano Veloso and Rita Lee. She possessed an exciting voice and superb intonation, and excelled at up-tempo numbers and ballads under the banner of Brazilian Popular Music Música Popular Brasileira. Her nicknames were "furacão" ("hurricane") and "pimentinha" ("little pepper"). Tropicalismo, otherwise known as Tropicália, is a form of Brazilian music that arose in the late 1960s from a melange of bossa nova, rock and roll, Bahia folk music, and perhaps Portuguese fado. ... Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro – December 8, 1994 in New York City), or Tom Jobim (as he is fondly known in his home country), was a Brazilian composer, arranger, singer, pianist/guitarist and one of the primary forces behind the creation... Elis & Tom is an album released in 1974 by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Elis Regina. ... For other uses, see Bossa nova (disambiguation). ... Milton Nascimento (born 26 October 1942) is a singer-songwriter who is considered one of the icons of Brazilian Music. ... João Bosco de Freitas Mucci, better known as João Bosco is a famous Brazilian MPB singer, guitarist, and composer. ... Aldir Blanc is a famous brazilian letrist, composing many songs with João Bosco, Guinga, and others. ... Chico Buarque (full name: Francisco Buarque de Hollanda; born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer, composer, dramatist and writer. ... Jorge Ben Jor is a Brazilian popular musician, born in Rio de Janeiro on March 22, 1942 (some sources say 1940). ... For the founder of the world scouting movement, see Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell Baden Powell de Aquino (August 6, 1937 - September 26, 2000) widely known simply as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian bossa nova guitarist. ... Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (born 7 August 1942), known as Caetano Veloso, is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian composer and singer. ... Rita Lee Jones, now Rita Lee Jones Carvalho, known simply as Rita Lee, (born on December 31, 1947) is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. ... Intonation, in music, is a players realization of pitch accuracy. ... Música Popular Brasileira, or MPB, literally Brazilian Popular Music, designating a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. ...

She sometimes criticized the Brazilian dictatorship which had persecuted and exiled many musicians of her generation. In a 1969 interview in Europe, she said that Brazil was being run by "gorillas". Her popularity kept her out of jail, but she was eventually compelled by the authorities to sing the Brazilian national anthem in a stadium show, drawing the ire of many Brazilian Leftists. She was later forgiven because they understood that, as a mother and daughter, she had to protect her family from the dictatorship at any cost. Along with many other artists Elis was living each verse of Geraldo Vandre´s political hymn:^[2]: Yet they make of a flower their strongest refrain, And believe flowers to defeat guns. Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by a dictator. ... “Instrumentalist” redirects here. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... The melody of the Brazilian national anthem (from Portuguese: Hino Nacional Brasileiro) was composed by Francisco Manoel da Silva in 1822 and had been given at least two sets of lyrics before a decree of 1922 gave it the definitive lyrics, by Joaquim Osório Duque Estrada, after several changes... A refrain (from the Old French refraindre to repeat, likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the chorus of a song. ...

When Elis Regina succumbed to an accidental drug-alcohol-tranquilizers overdose in 1982, at the age of 37, she had recorded dozens of top-selling records in her career. Elis Regina has sold over 80 million albums. Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...

Her rendition of Jobim / Vinicius' song "Por Toda A Minha Vida" appeared on the soundtrack to the 2002 movie Hable Con Ella (Talk to Her) directed by Pedro Almodóvar and her song "Roda" appeared on the soundtrack to the 2005 movie Be Cool. Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro – December 8, 1994 in New York City), or Tom Jobim (as he is fondly known in his home country), was a Brazilian composer, arranger, singer, pianist/guitarist and one of the primary forces behind the creation... Vinicius de Moraes (October 19, 1913 - July 9, 1980), born Marcus Vinícius da Cruz de Melo Morais in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music. ... Talk to Her (Hable con ella) is a 2002 film written and directed by the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, and Rosario Flores. ... Perico Almodovar Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (pronounced ) (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. ... Be Cool is a 2005 movie which was adapted from a 1999 novel. ...

Family

Elis married twice and gave birth to three children. Her first marriage was to Ronaldo Bôscoli in 1967. She gave birth to a son, João Marcelo Bôscoli, in 1970.

She later married her long-time collaborator César Camargo Mariano, and had two more children with him: Pedro Camargo Mariano in 1975, and Maria Rita in 1977. The three children all later became musicians, whose careers were only intermittently successful. After many years of complete obscurity, Maria Rita became a national singing sensation after a lengthy marketing campaign, like her mother, winning three Latin Grammies for her debut eponymous CD. João Marcello Boscoli, owner of the Trama recording company, produced the first Elis Regina DVD allowing many of her fans to see her performing for the first time. The DVD was a recording of a 1973 Brazilian TV show featuring songs and an interview. Boscoli's soul and MPB incursions failed to make an impact. Pedro Camargo Mariano was only noticed when he sang with his father, the brilliant pianist and arranger Cesar Camargo Mariano, on a Latin Grammy-nominated CD called "Piano & Voz" (Piano and Voice). His own records did not meet with commercial success. César Camargo Mariano is a Brazilian musician. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Maria Rita is a Brazilian singer in the Música Popular Brasileira musical genre. ... In mycology, the trama is a sterile layer of hyphae in the central part of a hymenophore, and is the supportive tissue of the hymenium. ...

Discography

• "Viva a Brotolândia" (first album recording in 1961 at age 16)
• "Poema" (1962)
• "Ellis Regina" (1963) (listed with two l's)
• Dois na Bossa (1965)
• O Fino do Fino - Elis & Zimbo Trio (1965)
• Samba, Eu Canto Assim! (1965)
• Dois na Bossa nº2 (1966)
• Elis (1966)
• Dois na Bossa nº3 (1967)
• Elis (1968)
• Elis (1969)
• Elis Regina in London (1969)
• Elis Regina & Toots Thielemans (1969)
• Em Pleno Verão (1970)
• Ela (1971)
• Elis (1972)
• Elis (1973)
• Elis (1974)
• Elis & Tom (1974)
• Falso Brilhante (1976)
• Elis (1977)
• Transversal do Tempo (1978) (live)
• Essa Mulher (1979)
• Elis Especial (1979)
• Saudades do Brasil (1980)
• Elis (1980)
• Montreux Jazz Festival (1982)

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Posthumous releases

• Trem Azul (1982) (live)
• Vento de Maio (1983) (compilation)
• Luz das Estrelas (1984)
• Elis Regina no Fino da Bossa (1994) (live)
• "Dose Dupla-Elis Regina" (1994) (digital compilation of first 2 recordings from 1961 and 1962)
• Elis ao Vivo (1995) (live)
• 20 Anos de Saudade (2002) (compilation)
• Little Pepper: The Definitive Collection (2004) (compilation)
• "Elis Regina: MPB Especial 1973" - black and white DVD released in 2005 (TV show)
• "Elis Regina Carvalho Costa" - full color DVD released in 2006 (live show)
• "Por toda a minha vida" - Brazilian TV GLOBO special in 12/28/2006 (TV show)

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Notes

1. ^ Arrastão venceu fácil, mas outra música de Vinícius não convenceu Banco de dados: Folha de S.Paulo (Portuguese)
2. ^ Ainda fazem da flor seu mais forte refrão, E acreditam nas flores vencendo o canhão

External links

• Biography of Elis Regina (Portuguese)
• Biography and discography of Elis Regina (English)
• Videos e history (Portuguese)