This week I want to talk about Adriana Calcanhotto, a singer who began her career in the 1990s and has since released quite a few records. She has never been as popular as other female singers such as Marisa Monte, but she has steady, loyal fans (I'm sort of one of them). She is also a great composer, and her songs are often melancholic with poetic, elaborate lyrics. An interesting bit of information about Adriana Calcanhotto is that she adopted the alias 'Adriana Partimpim' and recorded a great album for children in 2004 (my own children love it, and so do I!). In it, she recorded songs originally made for 'grown-ups', but in child-friendly versions; see for example 'FIco assim sem voce' and 'Oito anos'. (She recorded another album for kids in 2008.)
There are many songs by Adriana Calcanhotto that I really like, such as 'Vambora' and 'Metade', but my very favorite is probably 'Inverno', from her 1994 album A Fábrica do Poema. Everything about this song is just perfect: the lyrics, her singing, and the piano against the electronic background (a recurrent feature of her songs in the 1990s). True enough, t's nothing like the upbeat, dancing songs that I usually post; in fact, it is one of the songs I used to listen to when I was homesick, in my first years in 'exile'. But hey, life is not only about upbeat songs (^_^).
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