Nana Caymmi

Dinahir "Nana" Tostes Caymmi ( born April 29, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian singer.

Life

Nana Caymmi Dorival Caymmi is the daughter of, the world-famous composer, and singer Stella Maris. Her siblings Dori and Danilo Caymmi were also musicians. In 1960 she made ​​her first recordings and also came to some appearances on television.

In 1961 she married the doctor José Gilberto Aponte Paoli, with whom she lived in the next few years in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. There, in 1962 and 1963, their daughters Stella Caymmi Teresa Paoli and Denise Maria Caymmi Paoli came into the world. Their first album " Nana " was released in 1963. Marriage and musical ambitions of Nana Caymmi proved to be difficult to reconcile, and so she returned to Rio de Janeiro, where in 1966 her son João Gilberto Caymmi Paoli was born.

In the same year she participated in the first Festival Internacional do Canção Popular Rio de Janeiro and won the national phase of the competition with that of her brother Dori along with Nelson Motta wrote poetic song " Saveiros ". In the overall standings, it was the wind second behind the German Inge Brück with the song Frag.

In 1967 she married Gilberto Gil, the marriage lasted only until 1968. 1979 she married the composer and singer Claudio Nucci from which it separated in 1984 again.

During her career she has worked with such well-known singers such as Sergio Mendes and Sarah Vaughan. Their music is in its basic tendency melancholic - romantic, but not cheesy. She also sings many boleros. Their music often sings about the beauty of the country, the love, but also sadness and pain, and can be compared removed with the Portuguese Fado.

Nana Caymmi can look back on a long career that was commercially quite successful, especially in the 1990s. She sang among others, the theme songs of many Brazilian telenovelas.

The television documentary " Rio Sonata " by the Swiss filmmaker Georges Gachot, the 2010 in Rio de Janeiro for the premiere, presented in a translation the life and work of Nana Caymmi first time, a major German-language audience.

Work

Best known songs (selection)

  • Vaz e Suor, 1983.
  • Chora Brasileira, 1985.
  • A noite do meu bem, 1994.
  • Resposta ao tempo, 1998.

Albums ( selection)

  • Nana, 1965.
  • Renascer, 1976.
  • Mudança dos ventos, 1980.
  • Chora Brasileira, 1985.
  • Bolero, 1993.
  • Alma Serena, 1996.
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