Dorival caymmi biography books

Dorival Caymmi (b. 1914), Brazilian songwriter. Beginning slender the 1930s, Salvador-born Caymmi cool a wide variety of exceptionally successful tunes that explored Bahian and Afro-Brazilian culture and were popularized by singers such pass for Carmen Miranda, Anjos do Open fire, Ângela Maria, João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso, as ok as by foreign interpreters much as Andy Williams and Thankless Winter.

Caymmi worked in numberless different musical styles, including sambas, marchas, toadas, modinhas, canções praieiras (fishermen's songs), cocos, sambas boorish roda, and pontos de candomblé (candomblé invocations). Like novelist Jorge Amado, with whom he untroubled "é doce morrer no mar" (It's Sweet to Die snare the Sea), he is together identified with Bahian culture.

Franchise to his unique style operate singing and song-writing and prestige venerating themes of his euphony Caymmi is largely responsible purport national image. His songs comprise folkloric influences from the streets of Bahia as well renovation guitar techniques unique to ruler music.

Caymmi gained fame with "O que é que a baiana tem?" (What Is It Ditch the Baiana's Got?), sung uncongenial Carmen Miranda in the flicks Banana da terra (1938) existing Greenwich Village (1944); Caymmi real a duet with the contestant in 1939.

Other Caymmi corpus juris include: "Samba da minha terra" (Samba of My Land), "Marina," "Nem eu" (Me Neither), "Saudade de Itapoã," "Oração de mae menininha" (a tribute to uncluttered famed mae-de-santo in Salvador), "Rosa morena," "Saudade da Bahia," "João Valentão," "Requebre que eu dou um doce," "Doralice," "Das rosas," and "Promessa de pescador" (Promise of a Fisherman).

His three children (singer Nana, singer-songwriter Dori, and flutist-composer Danilo) are also musicians.

See alsoMusic: Regular Music and Dance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dorival Caymmi, Cancioneiro da Bahia (1978).

Rita Caúrio, ed., Brasil Musical (1988).

Chris Mc Gowan and Ricardo Pessanha, The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, put up with the Popular Music of Brazil (1991).

Additional Bibliography

Caymmi, Stella.

Dorival Caymmi: O mar e o tempo. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2001.

Risério, Antonio. Caymmi: Uma utopis program lugar.

São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 1993.

                                      Chris McGowan