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Maria Bethânia 
Bethania, performing in Hamburg, 1972Background information Birth name Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso Born 18 June 1946
Santo Amaro da Purificação
Bahia, BrazilGenres Bossa nova
Música Popular Brasileira
SambaOccupations Musician Instruments Vocalist Years active 1960s–present Labels RCA Records
Wrasse Records(Europe)Associated acts Gilberto Gil
Caetano Veloso
Nara LeãoWebsite Maria Bethânia.com.br/ Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso (born 18 June 1946 in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia Brazil), better known as Maria Bethânia (Portuguese pronunciation: [maˈɾiɐ beˈtɐ̃niɐ]), is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião" ("Opinion"). Due to its popularity, and the popularity of her 1965 single "Carcará", the singer became a star in Brazil, with performances all over the country. She has released over 30 albums to date.
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Biography
In her childhood, Bethânia had aspirations to become an actress. However, her mother was a musician, so music was prevalent in the Veloso household.[1] Though Bethânia was born in Santo Amaro da Purifição, her family moved to Salvador, Bahia when she was 13 years old. The move allowed her to experience the bohemian, intellectual circles of the city as well as to visit theaters. When she was 16, her brother Caetano Veloso invited her to sing in a film for which he was producing the soundtrack, but she refused. However, the film's director, Álvaro Guimarães, liked her voice and invited the young musician to perform in a 1963 performance of a Nélson Rodrigues musical. She began performing again with her brother, as well as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Zé, at the opening of the Vila Velha Theater in the next year.[1] During one of these performances, the bossa nova musician Nara Leão offered her an opportunity to take her place in a series of performances titled "Opinião".[2] She released her first single, a protest song named "Carcará", in 1965, the same year as her brother released his first recording.[3]
After releasing "Carcará" Bethânia returned from Rio de Janeiro, where she had gone to attend college, to Bahia. This was to only be a brief visit, as around that time she was performing at nightclubs and other venues throughout Brazil. This song also got her an offer from an RCA Records representative to record for the company. However Bethânia continually changed record labels throughout the 1970s. In 1973 Bethânia released Drama, Luz Da Noite, in which she performed traditional Brazilian songs, as well as incorporating literary elements.[4] In 1977 Bethânia went on tour and released a gold-certified album, both with the name of Pássaro da Manhã. She released Álibi a year later which was also gold-certified with over a million copies sold.[1] Around the end of the 1970s, Bethânia became more artistically conservative, moving away from the Tropicalismo music her frequent collaborators, including Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, had been playing.[3] During the 1980s and '90s Bethânia continued to record and perform, with 1993's As Canções Que Você Fez Para Mim becoming the year's most successful album in Brazil.
In 2005, Música Popular Brasileira supergroup of the same name. It was recorded June 24 of that year at Anhembi Stadium in São Paulo.[5] Its members were Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, four of the biggest names in the history of the Music of Brazil. The band was the subject of a 1977 documentary directed by Jom Tob Azulay. In 1994, they performed a tribute concert to Mangueira school of samba.[6]
French filmmaker Georges Gachot completed a documentary film "Musica é perfume" about her which was worldwide distributed. In 2008 she recorded an album with the Cuban singer Omara Portuondo which was followed by a Live DVD[1]
Maria Bethania in 2011 received permission from the Ministry of Culture of Brazil to make a poetry blog budgeted for $ 1.3 million Reais. [1]
Discography
- 2009: Encanteria
- 2009: Tua
- 2008: Omara Portuondo e Maria Bethânia [Biscoito Fino]
- 2008: Dentro do mar e Rio (2 CD Live)
- 2007: Favourites
- 2006: Mar de Sophia
- 2006: Pirata
- 2005: Tempo Tempo Tempo Tempo (DVD)
- 2005: Que falta você me faz
- 2003: Brasileirinho
- 2003: Maricotinha Ao Vivo (DVD)
- 2002: Maricotinha Ao Vivo
- 2001: Maricotinha
- 2001: Cânticos, Preces e Súplicas à Senhora dos Jardins do Céu
- 1999: Diamante Verdadeiro (live)
- 1999: A Força que nunca seca
- 1997: Imitação da Vida (live)
- 1996: Âmbar
- 1994: "Maria Bethania ao Vivo " Gravado no Canecão - RJ
- 1993: As canções que você fez pra mim
- 1992: Olho d'Água
- 1989: Memórias da Pele
- 1988: Maria
- 1987: Dezembros
- 1984: A Beira e O Mar
- 1983: Ciclo
- 1982: Nossos Momentos (live)
- 1981: Alteza
- 1980: Talismã
- 1979: Mel
- 1978: Álibi
- 1978: Maria Bethânia e Caetano Veloso Ao Vivo
- 1977: Pássaro da Manhã
- 1976: Doces Bárbaros (live)
- 1976: Pássaro Proibido
- 1975: Chico Buarque e Maria Bethâni (live)
- 1974: A cena muda (live)
- 1973: Drama 3º ato (live)
- 1972: Drama
- 1972: Quando o Carnaval Chegar (soundtrack)
- 1971: Rosa dos Ventos
- 1971: A Tua Presença
- 1971: Vinícius + Bethânia + Toquinho (live)
- 1970: Maria Bethânia Ao Vivo
- 1969: Maria Bethânia
- 1968: Recital na Boite Barroco (live)
- 1967: Edu e Bethânia (with Edu Lobo)
- 1966: Maria Bethânia canta Noel Rosa
- 1965: Maria Bethânia
- 1965: Carcara / De Manha
Filmography
- 2008: Doces barbaros Original 60 DVD
- 2008: Maria Bethania Omara Portuondo Live
- 2007: Maria Bethânia
- 2007: Pedrinha de Aruanda 2 DVD Set
- 2006: Outros Doces Barbaros feat. Gal Costa ,Caetano Veloso (DVD)
- 2005: "Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume" by Georges Gachot
References
- ^ a b c d Neder, Alvaro. "Biography". Allmusic. All Media Guide. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p3215. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ "Maria Bethânia". AllBrazilianMusic. CliqueMusic Editora. http://cliquemusic.uol.com.br/en/Artists/Artists.asp?Status=ARTISTA&Nu_Artista=379. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ a b MiNiMuM, Benjamin. "Maria Bethânia" (in French). Mondomix. http://maria_bethania.mondomix.com/fr/portrait218.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ Leitão, Egídio (March 1997). "Maria Bethânia: Âmbar". Luna Kafé. http://musicabrasileira.org/mariabethania/1996ambar.html. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ^ Allmusic history
- ^ Allmusic
External links
- Official site.(registration required) (Portuguese)
Categories:- 1946 births
- Living people
- Brazilian contraltos
- Brazilian female singers
- Brazilian Roman Catholics
- Portuguese-language singers
- People from Bahia
- Wrasse Records artists
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