Vinícius de Moraes

Vinícius de Moraes (October 19th 1913 with Rio de Janeiro - July 9th 1980), Marcus Vinícius da Cruz of Mello Moraes of her complete name, but often called very short Vinícius , or the small poet was a key character of the contemporary Brazilian music. As poet it wrote the words of many songs become of the traditional ones. But one owes him also some melodies and it was made the interpreter of its songs. It was moreover a very dynamic personality which encouraged many artists to begin in the popular song of quality.

Biography

Beginnings

Born in a musician family, it was put very early to compose of poetry. To 14 years, it bound with the brothers Paulo and Haroldo Tapajós, composing with this last its first song, Loura or Morena . In 1929, it was registered for studies of right to Rio. Starting from 1932, it wrote the words of ten songs which were recorded by the Tapajós brothers. Its finished studies, it made publish its books Caminho Para has Distância (1933) and Forma E Exegese . Later, it dealt with cinematographic censure for the Ministry for Health and Education (1935) and composed its third book Ariana, has Mulher (1936).

Studies and beginnings

Left for the the United Kingdom in 1938 with a purse the British government to study the Literature with Oxford, it wrote Novos Poemas . It Maria by procuration. Fleeing the Second world war, it returned to Rio in 1941 and started to write on the cinema in newspapers and reviews. Two years later, it joined the Brazilian diplomatic corps and published Cinco Elegias . In 1946, one named it with Los Angeles as vice-consul. It was its first diplomatic station. It published Poemas, Sonetos E Baladas .

It was gone back from there to Brazil in 1950, with died of his father. Its first samba (Co-made up with the musician Antonio Maria) was Quando You Passed por Mim in 1953, the year when it went in France like second embassy secretary. Its play Orfeu da Conceição gained with the fourth Centenário C Estado of São Paulo in 1954. The following year, he wrote words for parts of chamber music of Cláudio Santoro, then made play Orfeu da Conceição (carried later with the cinema by Marcel Camus under the title Orfeu Negro ). One introduced an unknown pianist then to him, Tom Jobim, which was to write the music of the part. Jobim composed the music of Todos Fossem Iguais has Você , Um Nome of Mulher and several other songs, which were going to be recorded by Luís Bonfá in particular. Set out again in France then in Uruguay for its diplomatic activities, Vinícius published Livro de Sonetos and Novos Poemas II .

The beginnings of Worked nova

In 1958 the singer Elizeth Cardoso recorded its album Canção C Amor Demais : they were the premises of the Bossa nova. This album was only composed of songs of Jobim and/or Vinícius (in particular: Canção C Amor Demais , Luciana , Estrada Branca , Chega de Saudade , and Outraged Vez ), and João Gilberto intervened there on two tracks. This disc was followed those of Gilberto alone, which made the success of many compositions of the duet.

Years 1960 and 1970

During this time Orfeu Negro , whose original soundtrack was due to Vinícius, Luis Bonfá and Jobim, gained many prices (in particular the Oscar of best foreign film, the Palme of Gold of the Cannes festival…).

Starting from the Years 1960, Vinícius started to collaborate with other Brazilian musicians, already famous or who were going to become it: Carlos Lira, Pixinguinha, Baden Powell, Ary Barroso, Edu Lobo, Francis Hime and especially Toquinho (its most durable partner and its best friend). Its songs Para uma Menina COM uma Flor and Samba da Bênção (composed by Baden Powell) are reproduced on the B.O of a man and a woman of Claude Lelouch in 1966.

The laws on the censure having been reinforced by the military regime, it had to leave its diplomatic functions starting from 1968. It was then put to occur on scene more intensively, in particular at the sides of Toquinho (but also of Joyce, Jobim…), and especially out of Brazil initially.

He dies, victim of a pulmonary edema, the July 9th 1980 in his house of Gavea (Rio de Janeiro) in company of Toquinho and his last wife.

Posterity

Vinícius is joint author of more than 400 songs, of which some standards of the Jazz and a good number of traditional of the Brazilian song.

As regards its properly poetic work, it gave him less the serious one on the end of its life, but did not continue any less to publish, recording discs of poems recited.

It was original very exuberant, into perpetual need for romanticism (it seemed that he remariait all both or three years), an adolescent eternal by which one was astonished with his death that he was already 67 years old.

One can add to his posterity his little girl, Mariana de Moraes, interprets great talent. She takes again the songs of her grandfather in a very personal way and makes discover contemporary type-setters authors with same enthusiasm. An album left in April 2000: E Pecado Sambar.

External bond

Official site (in Portuguese)
Receipt of woman, poem of Vinicius de Moraes (in French)
" Vinícius, O poeta" , a data base of Gani Jakupi (in Spanish and Portuguese)

Discographic choice

Vinícius de Moares in Fused idiot Maria Creuza there Toquinho

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