Elect Regina

Elis Regina Carvalho da Costa (May 17th 1945 - January 19th 1982) was one of the singers most popular Brésil liennes of the Années 1960 and 1970.

Biography

Elis Regina was born with Porto Alegre, where it began her career at the 11 years age in a radio program for children on Rádio Farroupilha. In 1959, it signed with Rádio Gaúcha and the following year left for Rio de Janeiro where it recorded its first album, Viva has Brotolândia .

It gained its first contest of song in 1965 by singing Arrastão Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes. Its second album with Jair Rodrigues, Owe Na Worked , is established in the classification of best the national sales. At the end of the years 1960 and to the beginning of the year 1970, it contributed to popularize the movement tropicalist, by recording songs of type-setters like Gilberto Gil. In 1974, its album-duet with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elect & Tom , is often quoted as one of the best albums of Bossa Nova ever left. She also worked with Milton Nascimento, João Boscoli, Chico Buarque, Jorge Ben and Caetano Veloso. She had an extraordinary voice and a superb intonation, and excelled in the rates/rhythms Up-tempo. It was called “ furacão ” (hurricane) and also “ pimentinha ” (small pepper) for the keen perfectionism which it put in its work.

She often criticized the military regime with the capacity with the Brésil at that time and which persecuted and pushed with the exile much Musicien S of his generation. Thus in an interview carried out in 1969, she affirmed that Brazil was controlled by “gorillas”. Its popularity protected it from any reprisal, but it was forced by the dictatorship to sing the National anthem Brésil IEN at the time of a public commemoration of the independence of the country, which caused the anger of the movements on the left in its connection.

Elis Regina succumbed to a Overdose of Cocaïne in 1982, at the 36 years age only, after having recorded tens of albums of foreground. It is buried with the Cemitério C Morumbi with São Paulo.

Family

Elect Maria twice and gave rise to three children. Its first marriage was with Ronaldo Bôscoli in 1967. The couple had a son in 1970, Joāo Marcelo Bôscoli.

Later, she will marry her collaborator of long time César Camargo Mariano; they had two children together: Pedro Camargo Mariano in 1975, and Maria Rita in 1977. His/her three children will become later musicians.

Discography

Posthumous albums

  • Trem Azul (1982) (live)

  • Vento de Maio (1983) (compilation)
  • Luz das Estrelas (1984)
  • Elect Regina No Fino da Bossa (1994) (live)
  • Elis ao Vivo (1995) (live)
  • 20 Anos de Saudade (2002) (compilation)
  • Little Pepper: Final The Collection (2004) (compilation)

External bonds

  • Biographie of Elect Regina (in Portuguese)

  • Site in French on Elis Regina

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