Maysa

Maysa was, as well as Dolores Duran, typically the most popular vocalist/songwriter in the time immediately before bossa nova. A composer since her teenagers (at 12 she published the samba-canção “Adeus,” popular from her 1st recording), Maysa held throughout her profession her gratitude for the sentimental design referred to as fossa. However, Maysa pioneered within the international design of bossa nova in displays in the Olympia (Paris, France), Blue Angel (U.S.), as well as the Cassino Estoril (Portugal), having experienced achievement with three bossa classics, “Meditação” (Tom Jobim/Newton Mendonça), “Dindi” (Tom Jobim/Aloysio de Oliveira), and “Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você” (Tom Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes). Maysa’s everlasting popularity like a composer is usually credited primarily to her bolero-influenced sambas-cançõsera “Ouça” and “Meu Mundo Caiu.” She also experienced achievement with her “Felicidade Infeliz.” As an interpreter, her strikes had been “Bom dia, Tristeza” (Adoniran Barbosa/Vinicius de Moraes), “Ne Me Quite Pas” (Jacques Brel), “Solidão” (Antônio Bruno), “Bloco da Solidão” (Jair Amorim/Evaldo Gouveia), and “Tristeza” (Haroldo Lobo/Niltinho). Having wedded the heir from the category of millionaire descendents from the Count number Matarazzo at 18, 2 yrs later she had been pregnant with her just boy, Jayme Monjardim, who later turn into a Television movie director. Maysa Matarazzo impressed manufacturer Roberto Corte-Real with her performing and he asked her to record. Maysa waited on her behalf son to carefully turn a year outdated and then documented her first record. The business, RGE, was still a jingle documenting service and became a phonographic label because of Corte-Real’s insistence in releasing Maysa. She recommended her album never to end up being the initial one made by the new firm, and it had been released as amount 13. The 10″ LP Convite Em fun??o de Ouvir Maysa (past due 1956) acquired eight tracks, included in this the strikes “Adeus,” “Resposta,” “Rindo de Mim,” and “Marcada.” The instant success being a vocalist and songwriter brought a significant circumstance to her relationship. Her hubby, disapproving of her creative career, made a decision to divorce her, which led her right into a despair and sublimating her extremely melancholic production within the fossa design. The popularity brought by the very first album opened up to Maysa the doorways of Television (in 1957, she got her very own show at Television Record); she also acquired achievement in her displays on the Oásis and Cave nightclubs. Another three amounts of Convite Em fun??o de Ouvir Maysa, released between 1958 and 1959, acquired the classics “Ouça” and “Meu Mundo Caiu.” Having transferred to Rio de Janeiro in 1960 by Ronaldo Bôscoli’s invitation (with whom she held an affair), Maysa contacted the bossa nova group and began to record the bossa repertory. In Rio, Maysa made an appearance regularly on the Television show and released the LP O Barquinho, a significant album that acquired the accompaniment of Luís Eça, Hélcio Milito, and Bebeto Castilho, who in 1962 would constitute the Tamba Trio (having Bebeto replace Otávio Bailly). After her Western european tour, Maysa resolved in Spain where she fulfilled her second hubby. Visiting Brazil every once in awhile, she participated within the Event Internacional da Canção/FIC (International Track Event), with “Dia da Vitória” (Luís Bonfá/M. H. Toledo). In 1969, Maysa came back to Brazil and opened up the live-recorded display Canecão Apresenta Maysa, accompanied by a time of year in São Paulo. In the first ’70s, she also began to function in the movie theater and Television, having participated in cleaning soap operas and created music to them. In 1976, “Meu Mundo Caiu” was included on the soundtrack from the cleaning soap opera Estúpido Cupido, taking pleasure in another influx of popularity, right now among younger decades. In January of another year, she passed away instantly inside a tragic motor vehicle accident in the Rio-Niterówe bridge.