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Gracinha, Gau, Maria da Graça, 15 years old. At parties, the reserved adolescent picked up a guitar and sang the songs of the era. Her vocation as a singer slowly became evident. The city of Salvador simmered with avant-garde ideas. Brasília was inaugurated, the radios played João Gilberto in Chega de Saudade, Martim Gonçalves was director at the Escola de Teatro, the Soviets launched the Sputnik 4 into space: the future seemed close and modern. John Kennedy won the election in the United States, Glauber Rocha débuted as director in Barravento, Roberto Pires finished filming A Grande Feira, and Elvis Presley advised: It’s Now or Never. The world lost the innocence of the previous decade.
The powerful voice of ngela Maria and the particular singing style of Dalva deOliveira did not, little by little, seduce the adolescent Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos. She now turned to the dissonant chords of Carlos Lyra’s first LP, the liner notes of which, by Ary Barroso, for the first time registered the term "música popular brasileira", Brazilian popular music.
It was a representative year in every respect.
Eduardo Logullo
translation: Kirsten Weinoldt
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