One of BMoF’s biggest supporters is Guy Longworth, who regularly retweets links to the posts to his wide followship on Twitter. Guy is a big fan of Brazilian music, and Joyce Moreno is one of his favorites; so to thank him for his continuous support, here is a post on Joyce!
Joyce’s career started in the late 1960s, but it is fair to say that it was actually with her 1980 album Feminina that she became widely known in Brazil. Since then, she continued to record albums and collaborate with a wide range of musicians; she is very popular in Japan in particular, and well known in jazzy-world music circles. While being an accomplished composer herself, classics from the Bossa Nova repertoire are one of her specialties, such as this version of 'Corcovado' (hence the popularity in Japan; the Japanese love Bossa Nova).
I’m posting here her greatest hit ever, ‘Clareana’ (in the original and somewhat tacky videoclip), the song she wrote for her daughters Clara and Ana (who are now both singers themselves -- check here for the three of them performing together), from Feminina. This song was a big hit when I was a kid, and I loved it already back then: it sounds like a lullaby that a mother sings to her children. From the same album, and still in the mother-child theme, I’m posting the great ‘Feminina’ in a live version, which goes:
-Hey mom, explain to me, teach me, tell me, what is feminine?
- It’s not in the hair, the coquettishness or the eyes; it’s being a girl everywhere.
(On a personal note, and in the spirit of Eric’s recent posts on parenthood, I can say that these songs are special to me, in particular ‘Clareana’, because I used to relate to them as a daughter, and now I listen to them as the mother of two girls myself.)
And just so that the reader won’t think that Joyce’s career stopped in the 1980s (far from that!), click here for her recent version of ‘Banana’ in collaboration with rapper/multi-instrumentalist Madlib.
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