![]() ![]() Roberta Sá: Delirio, Listening Post 65, September 19, 2016. Rodrigo Campello: Guitars, cavaco, keyboards, bass, programming, music producer Sá’s vintage/new seventh album is a captivating look back to her own auspicious start that also carries some great songs forward. In Falsa Baiana (Phony Baiana, video 4), Brazil’s signature dance is a metaphor for taking life by the horns while Fica Melhor Assim (It’s Better This Way, video 5) is a tale of starting over. Though most of the collection’s songs are classics, the softly melancholy Samba de Um Minuto (One-Minute Samba, video 3) was a freshly minted exception. Sá’s voice sails lightly through Chega de Saudade (No More Blues, video 1), the seminal bossa nova work by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes and she uses her percussion-strings-flute accompaniment like a springboard as she leaps into Alegria/O Sol Nascerá (Joy/The Sun Will Rise, video 2) by the great sambista Cartola. The collection features songs by the cream of samba composers and poets. But if Sá’s upward climb has been smooth, some of her fans missed a beat: While she was mixing her first studio album in 2004, a multinational company commissioned her to record Sambas & Bossas, a 10-track disc they used as a promotional gift to clients but which was never commercially released. Career highlights include the closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro when she channeled the spirit and sang the repertoire of Carmen Miranda, and a collection of songs written exclusively for her by Gilberto Gil. ![]() In the succeeding years Sá became an icon of MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) and especially of samba. A four-week stint in the national spotlight landed her a manager, leading to her performing a song by Dorival Caymmi for the soundtrack of a prime-time telenovela her first album contract soon followed. Long story short: During a university semester break in 2002, Roberta Sá successfully auditioned for Fama, a talent show on Brazil’s TV Globo. ![]()
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