Zé Kéti

The author of a lot more than 200 sambas, Zé Kéti was probably one of the most important sambistas ever. A unique shape to bridge the distance between your hill and the town, he was the only person to produce tracks with bossa nova composers like Carlos Lyra in the protest music amount of the design: the “Samba da Legalidade.” Zé Kéti was extremely influential for the reason that period when he participated in the level of resistance display Opinião, whose name was extracted from one of is own sambas (it could also end up being the denomination of the newspaper, a movie theater, of the group that staged the play, and of Nara Leão’s second LP). Also an extremely successful industrial composer, Kéti acquired his songs documented by Elis Regina, Nara Leão, Dalva de Oliveira, Zé Renato, Paulinho da Viola (“Mascarada” and “Samba Primary,” both with Elton Medeiros), and many more. His traditional “A Voz perform Morro” was included on the soundtrack of the essential film Rio 40 Graus (Nelson Pereira dos Santos), while “Malvadeza Durão” and “Foi Ela” had been contained in the same director’s Rio Zona Norte. Santos also utilized Kéti’s music in O Boca de Ouro (1962), while “A Flor perform Lodo” was contained in Grande Momento (Roberto Santos, 1958). Kéti also acquired songs contained in the soundtracks from the movies A Falecida (Leon Hirszman, 1965) and A Grande Cidade (Cacá Diegues, 1966). At 16, he began to regular the rehearsals from the Portela samba college, signing up for the samba school’s Ala dos Compositores (Composers’ Wing) before it got that denomination in 1945. In 1946, he previously a composition documented for the very first time, “Vivo Bem,” by Ciro Monteiro. In the same yr, he documented his “Tio Sam no Samba” using the Vocalistas Tropicais. He’d have regular achievement just with “Amor Passageiro,” in 1952, in Linda Batista’s documenting. With Jamelão’s documenting of “Leviana” in 1954, his popularity began to develop, but broad recognition came only within the next yr with “A Voz perform Morro,” documented by Jorge Goulart for the key film Rio 40 Graus (Nelson Pereira dos Santos), where he participated as an acting professional. In 1963, Kéti shaped a historic samba group, the A Voz perform Morro, with Paulinho da Viola, Elton Medeiros, Jair Perform Cavaquinho, Anescar perform Salgueiro, Nelson Sargento, Oscar Bigode, and José da Cruz, which documented within the next yr the LP Roda de Samba. Also in the first ’60s, he was the musical movie director from the famous Zicartola, a cafe possessed by Cartola and his wife, Dona Zica, in downtown Rio, which experienced an expressive social importance through the advertising of contact between your sambistas, the middle-class performers, and intellectuals of the town. This would make important outcomes when readings of “the favorite” by cinematographers, music artists, authors, and poets had been the just manifestations against the armed service dictatorship allowed from the censorship. It had been in the Zicartola that Kéti understood Carlos Lyra and Nara Leão (who documented Kéti’s “Diz Que Fui Por Aí” on her behalf first solo recording, along with Cartola/Elton Medeiros’ samba “O Sol Nascerá”). In 1964 and 1965, Kéti, Nara Leão, and João Perform Vale performed the historical display Opinião, where Kéti’s strikes “O Favelado,” “Nega Dina,” and “Opinião” had been released. The politicized “Acender as Velas,” released in 1965, was documented by Leão and Elis Regina. In a totally different vein, his Carnaval marcha “Máscara Negra” (1967) was among the last associates from the genre to possess much success, getting an all-time traditional. Allegedly compiled by Kéti and Hildebrando Pereira Matos, the authorship from the second option was contested by his sibling, Deusdedith Pereira Matos, in courtroom. In that 12 months, Kéti also received the II Competition of Carnaval Music in the Maracanãzinho with “Amor de Carnaval.” In 1968, he was elected the Cidadão Samba (Resident Samba) and within the next season, he earned the Carnaval music competition along with his interpretation from the marcha-rancho “Avenida Iluminada.” In 1971, he released his strike “Drama General” on his LP Operating-system Grandes Sucessos de Zé Kéti and 2 yrs later, he deserted the Portela after shedding the internal competition for the annual samba to “O Mundo Melhor de Pixinguinha.” In 1976, he shifted to São Paulo and continuing to perform before ’90s, regardless of the heart stroke he experienced in 1987. In 1996, he performed his classics with Marisa Monte as well as the Velha Guarda da Portela. 2 yrs afterwards, he was honored using the Shell award for his body of function in a wedding ceremony on the Canecão (Rio) of which he was paid tribute with the Velha Guarda da Portela, Monarco, Paulinho da Viola, and Elton Medeiros.