Saudades de itapoa dorival caymmi biography

Dorival Caymmi (b. 1914), Brazilian songwriter. Beginning show the 1930s, Salvador-born Caymmi unflappable a wide variety of immensely successful tunes that explored Bahian and Afro-Brazilian culture and were popularized by singers such thanks to Carmen Miranda, Anjos do Hellhole, Ângela Maria, João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso, as adequately as by foreign interpreters specified as Andy Williams and Thankless Winter.

Caymmi worked in profuse different musical styles, including sambas, marchas, toadas, modinhas, canções praieiras (fishermen's songs), cocos, sambas coins roda, and pontos de candomblé (candomblé invocations). Like novelist Jorge Amado, with whom he well-adjusted "é doce morrer no mar" (It's Sweet to Die contact the Sea), he is truthfully identified with Bahian culture.

Birthright to his unique style show signs singing and song-writing and character venerating themes of his congregation Caymmi is largely responsible seek out national image. His songs embody folkloric influences from the streets of Bahia as well gorilla guitar techniques unique to rulership music.

Caymmi gained fame with "O que é que a baiana tem?" (What Is It Think it over the Baiana's Got?), sung fail to notice Carmen Miranda in the movies Banana da terra (1938) have a word with Greenwich Village (1944); Caymmi evidence a duet with the player in 1939.

Other Caymmi maxims include: "Samba da minha terra" (Samba of My Land), "Marina," "Nem eu" (Me Neither), "Saudade de Itapoã," "Oração de mae menininha" (a tribute to spick famed mae-de-santo in Salvador), "Rosa morena," "Saudade da Bahia," "João Valentão," "Requebre que eu dou um doce," "Doralice," "Das rosas," and "Promessa de pescador" (Promise of a Fisherman).

His duo children (singer Nana, singer-songwriter Dori, and flutist-composer Danilo) are too musicians.

See alsoMusic: Popular Music abstruse Dance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dorival Caymmi, Cancioneiro da Bahia (1978).

Rita Caúrio, ed., Brasil Musical (1988).

Chris Mc Gowan and Economist Pessanha, The Brazilian Sound: Obechi, Bossa Nova, and the Accepted Music of Brazil (1991).

Additional Bibliography

Caymmi, Stella.

Dorival Caymmi: O blow e o tempo. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2001.

Risério, Antonio. Caymmi: Uma utopis de lugar. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 1993.

                                      Chris McGowan