Ary Barroso

Ary Evangelista Barroso ( born November 7, 1903 in Ubá, Minas Gerais, † February 9, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) was a lawyer, a sports reporter and one of the most popular Brazilian composer and singer of the 1940s and 1950s.

Life

Barroso studied classical piano and played as a young man in dance orchestras in Rio de Janeiro. To earn money for his marriage, he composed the song " Dá Nela " and thus applied at the Song Festival Carnival 1930 in Rio, which was held by the record company Casa Edison. The song won first prize, and Barroso subsequently became a regular composer for carnival marches and sambas. He wrote hundreds of sambas and ballads, many of them explicitly for the singer Carmen Miranda.

His compositions established the subgenre of Samba Exaltação, a patriotic - -enhancing version of Samba that the red-light districts and the idleness was standing promoted by the then ruling Vargas dictatorship as opposed to the Samba Malandro. 1939 Barroso wrote his most famous title " Aquarela do Brasil ", which became world famous in the abbreviated form as " Brazil" and numerous vocal and instrumental interpretations experienced. Walt Disney heard the song during a visit to Brazil in 1941 and decided the title in the animated film Saludos Amigos ( Three Caballeros in Samba Fever, 1942) installed. He promptly brought Barroso 1944 Oscar nomination.

Disney invited Barroso one to come to Hollywood, but refused the offer. Nevertheless, he delivered for Disney further musical material, including the title " Baía " (also called " Bahia ", original: Na Baixa do Sapateiro ) and "Os Quindins de Yaya " for the animated film The Three Caballeros ( The Three Caballeros, 1944) (from Carmen Miranda's younger sister Aurora Miranda sung ). Also, this title was instrumental by many artists, including of the orchestras Werner Müller and Xavier Cugat, and vocal, including Bing Crosby and Caterina Valente, interpreted.

As a sports reporter Barroso became famous not only for its eloquence, but also because he commented on the games of his favorite team Flamengo with unheard of partisanship. This culminated in the fact that he once during the game left the reporter cabin and stopped to comment, to celebrate a goal by Flamengo with the team on the lawn. Another time he broke the comment in the middle of an attack from the opposing team and said instead: "I look not towards the best ." Ary Barroso justified the rejection of the Disney offer also expect that there would be no Hollywood CR Flamengo.

Barroso died Carnival Monday, 1964 from liver cirrhosis, while the samba school Império Serrano the Passarela do samba ( the 600 -meter-long Sambódromo ) entered with his work " Aquarela do Brasil ".