tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13875772698073290622011-07-07T19:09:01.000-05:00This is the complete, book-length biography of Brazilian singer Elis Regina, titled "Furacão Elis" by Regina Echeverria and translated into English from the original Portuguese by Robert St. Louis.BrazilClubUSA.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393023880284669493noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387577269807329062.post-57982191486056254492010-03-07T16:18:00.004-06:002010-03-07T16:31:32.896-06:00

Welcome to Connectbrazil.com's tribute to Elis Regina. I hope that you'll enjoy this special on-line presentation and would like to thank Robert St. Louis for his hard work, love and dedication to the memory of Elis...After reading through a portion of this wonderful transcript, a colleage said recently, "Elis Regina was born to destiny, much like a shooting star that streaked across the

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Hello,As our world grows ever smaller, the prominence of cultural icons such as Elis Regina begins to shrink as well, slowly replaced by the quickening pace of the latest trend, the 24 hour news cycle, and the next subject for his or her “15-minutes of fame.”So, for taking the time and effort to read about Elis Regina, I thank you.Elis was dynamic in her music and polarizing in her personal life.

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....Elis Regina Carvalho CostaBorn March 17, 1945 at 15:10 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.Died January 19, 1982 at 11:45 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.PrologueIt is Brazil Night at the 13th Montreux Jazz Festival, in 1979. This evening of the festival is traditionally reserved to showcase some of the best musical talents from Brazil. The audience awaits with great anticipation the arrival of the main performer,

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...."Between the wall and the sword, I am drawn toward the sword" - Elis Regina In a bar located in the centre of a city block in a middle-class suburb of São Paulo, Dona (1) Ercy Carvalho Costa tends to the patrons until eight in the evening. Some like to sit at the counter and eat Dona Ercy's lunch, famous in the neighbourhood. Dona Ercy then walks home, half a block away. At seventy-three

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....Elis used to say that she arrived in Rio de Janeiro on March 31st 1964. It was certainly not on that date - some days before, actually - but it made for a good story when she said that. Elis in Rio on March 31st, the day of the military coup (1), with the added colourful detail of her father having come with a letter of recommendation from the PTB, the party of the deposed president, João

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...."Now I know very well what it's like for a great artist to assume the importance of an entire era onto his person. I know about the torment, the profound duality that forms within the famous and public person, who is given a certain amount of power. And the inner conflict between the desire to be important and the desire to be happy." - Gilberto Gil In April 1965, Elis was on the cover of

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...."It was a dangerously delicious relationship. We would be floating in the air and then suddenly would clutch each other in passion. We did strange and beautiful things." - Ronaldo Bôscoli I met with Ronaldo Bôscoli in May 1985, in a visiting room of the Barramares apartment-hotel, located in Barra da Tijuca in Rio, where he lives, at the age of fifty-five. We were both nervous. "Because this

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...."With me it's simple: I share everything, my clothes, my friends. But my stage, I don't share it with anyone." - Elis Regina Our pieces are beginning to fit into the new character that put on a veil and garland and got married in one of the most coveted galas of that time. Maybe Elis became disenchanted with the quarrelling that installed itself inside her intimacy with Ronaldo. He told me

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...."Elis put a message in my pocket and told me to go read it in the bathroom..." - César Camargo Mariano "Her purse was something else. She had everything: from nail polish to a student case with pencils, pens. She had make-up, mirrors, notebooks and more notebooks, one for each thing." - Mônica Figueiredo At the start of her success, Elis used to say that she didn't mix the "person" with the "

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...."It was a relationship akin to dynamite. I would do all the work and she would get the glory. When everything was over, I was completely crazy." - Miriam Muniz It was around that time that I first knew Elis Regina. I was twenty-four years old and had been working for three years as reporter at the Jornal da Tarde. I was nervous when I went down Xavier Street in Toledo for my first meeting

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...."Forgive me, the days were like this." - Vitor Martins (Aos nossos filhos - To Our Children) At the beginning of '77, Elis became pregnant for the third time. She took Falso Brilhante out of circulation and bought a new house. She went to live in the heights of Cantareira (1), São Paulo, far from the pollution, close to the countryside, without a telephone, with her husband, her two sons and

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...."The fish is an animal that sees ahead and behind, that moves both vertically and horizontally in the water. It can thus position itself in relation to a certain point from 'n' different ways. Today it comes from the right, tomorrow from the left, later from the top and from the bottom. People of the Pisces sign grant themselves the right to change depending on how they see a situation." -

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...."I saw Rita Lee lick the microphone. I spent years of my life wanting to do this, but was afraid of being electrocuted." - Elis ReginaIn 1980, three days after turning thirty-five, Elis opened a new show at the Canecão in Rio: Saudade do Brasil (Saudade from Brazil). It resulted from the work of many months. On stage, there were twenty-five people: Elis, thirteen musicians and eleven dancers.

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...."Will you decipher me or will I devour you? You won't devour me, nor decipher me, neither. I am the sphinx, and what of it? Within this generalized narcissism, do you give me the right to be narcissistic with myself a little bit? To do with myself what I think is best, be friends with whoever I want to, to bring people I like to my house? Very few people are going to know my house. I am Elis

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...."Sometimes, just because I become nervous, I burst out, Or rather, just because I am alive." - Elis Regina in 'Rebento', by Gilberto GilNew year, new life:Elis was full of plans for 1982. Because of this, the night of December 31st, 1981 had a very special significance for her and Samuel. After six months of seeing each other, they had decided to get married. On a professional side, Elis was

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....Chapter 1(1) "Dona" is a common title of respect used before a lady's first name.(2) Native or inhabitant of the Rio Grande do Sul province.(3) The capital of Rio Grande do Sul province. (4) Carvalho is the mother's maiden name.(5) A popular brazilian singer-composer of the 1930’s.(6) The most popular tango singer from Argentina. (7) A famous Argentinean song. (8) A popular singer of that

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. . . . 1945 March 17: Born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, at the Beneficencia Portuguesa hospital, at 15:10 1952/1956 Primary schooling at the Grupo Escolar Goncalves Dias, Porto Alegre. 1956 September: Sings on radio for the first time, on the show Clube do Guri, hosted by Ary Rego, at Radio Farroupilha in Porto Alegre. Goes on to join the permanent staff of the show, earning a

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. . . . Research: Maria Luiza Kfouri LONG-PLAYS 1961: VIVA A BROTOLANDIA LABEL: Continental SONGS: SIDE 1: 1 - DÁ SORTE: (Eleu Salvador) 2 - SONHANDO (DREAM): (Vorzon/Ellis/ vs. Juvenal Fernandes) 3 - MURMÚRIO: (Luiz Antonio/Djalma Ferreira) 4 - TU SERÁS: (Angelo Martignani/Othon Russo) 5 - SAMBA FEITO PRA MIM: (Paulo Tito) 6 - FALA-ME DE AMOR (TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS): (Markus/

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....After the Hurricane Since it was published in 1985, I never opened Furacão Elis (Hurricane Elis) again. It seemed that I had paid back this great singer and ravishing woman, hot blooded and of a fascinating personality. During a languid afternoon at pool-side of her house in the mountains of Cantareira, we had had a long talk about life and the future. We had agreed that one day, I could

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