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Virgínia Rodrigues – Nós / Hannibal Records Audio CD 2000 / HNCD 1448
UPC 031257-1448-27
Virginia Rodrigues (born Salvador, March 31, 1964) is a Brazilian singer.
The Bahian region of Brazil has sent the world some invaluable music, much of it expressed to the widest audience through artists who aren't native to the region. So the drummers of Olodum propel Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints and deeply inspire Caetano Veloso and untold other Brazilian artists. Virginia Rodrigues, though, is the quintessence of the region's aesthetic pricelessness. Her Sol Negro won global accolades, and its follow-up, Nós, is an even more precious gem. Rodrigues melds Bahian rhythmic aesthetics and a pop feel that ranges from evening-gown jazz hybrids (with choral background vocals!) to sheer displays of her broad-winged midrange vocalizations. Produced by Veloso, Nós opens with a song for the African deity Exú and invokes periodic ritual energies, swirling languidly through Rodrigues's vocals and finding refractions in the layers of pristine production beneath each song's surface. It's a rare find, something this special. --Andrew Bartlett
Tracklist:
| 1 | Canto Pra Exú
Tambora – Celso Fonseca |
1:21 |
| 2 | Uma História De Ifá
Percussion [Bottles] – Celso Fonseca |
4:11 |
| 3 | Salvador Não Inerte | 4:56 |
| 4 | Afrekêtê
Flute – Mauro Senise |
3:40 |
| 5 | Jeito Faceiro
Kalimba – Celso Fonseca |
3:56 |
| 6 | Ilé É Impar
Bass Clarinet – Mauro Senise |
0:30 |
| 7 | Depois Que O Ilê Passar
Flute – Mauro Senise |
4:05 |
| 8 | Ojú Obá
Flute – Mauro Senise |
3:40 |
| 9 | Raça Negra
Chorus – Adriana Maciel, Bruno Levinson, Celso Fonseca, Eduardo Prado (2), Elisa Queiroz, Gabriela Azevedo (2), Gui Rodrigues, Milton Guedes, Patricia Maranhão, Thiago Braga, Júlio Moura, Virgínia Rodrigues |
3:39 |
| 10 | Deusa Do Ébano | 0:31 |
| 11 |
Depois Do Fogo E Da Justiça | 5:11 |
| 12 | Male Debale
Bells, Lyre – Celso FonsecaM Flute – Mauro Senise |
3:28 |
| 13 | Mimar Você | 4:56 |
| 14 | Reino De Daomé | 4:57 |
- Alto Saxophone, Flute – Zé Canuto
- Arranged By [Strings], Arranged By [Winds] – Eduardo Souto Neto
- Baritone Saxophone – Henrique Band
- Cello – David Chew (tracks: 2,3,7,11)
- Chorus – Bettina Graziani (tracks: 4, 10), Eveline Hecker (tracks: 4, 10), Jurema de Cândia (tracks: 4, 10), Nair Cândia (tracks: 4, 10)
- Clarinet – Dirceu Leite
- Edited By [Digital] – Florência Saravia
- Horn – Philip Doyle (2)
- Mastered By – Emily Lazar
- Mixed By – Walter Costa
- Music Director [Artistic Direction] – Caetano Veloso
- Percussion – Robertinho Silva (tracks: 4,5,6,9,10)
- Percussion, Arranged By, Kalimba, Berimbau – Ramiro Musotto
- Producer [Musical Production], Guitar, Mixed By – Celso Fonseca
- Recorded By – Denilson Campos
- Recorded By [Additional Recordings] – Duda Mello (tracks: 2,7,9), Eduardo Costa (6) (tracks: 4,5,6,10)
- Recorded By, Mixed By – Mário Possollo "Lecco"* (tracks: 11)
- Tenor Saxophone – Daniel Garcia (4)
- Trombone – Vitor Santos
- Viola – Deborah Cheyne (tracks: 3,11), Nayrah Pessanha (tracks: 2,7)
- Violin – Ana Maria de Oliveira (tracks: 2,7), Felipe Prazeres (tracks: 11), Gustavo Menezes (tracks: 11), Marluce Oliveira (tracks: 3), Mauro Rufino (tracks: 2,3,5,7)
- Wind [Clarone] – Rui Alvim
Virginia Rodrigues started her career by singing in both Catholic and Protestant church choirs. In 1997, she was invited by the director Márcio Meirelles to attend Pelô Bye Bye. There she was discovered by Caetano Veloso.
The first album Sol Negro was produced by Celso Fonseca and had arrangements by Eduardo Souto Neto. It was released on the Rykodisc label and was well received in the United States and Europe. The Times of London described Rodrigues as "... The new diva of Brazilian music". The album also received good reviews in Le Monde and the magazine Rolling Stone.
Rodrigues second album, Nós, features songs of Ile Aiye, Olodum, Timbalada, Ara Ketu and Afreketê and was also well received with reviews in The New York Times and All Music Guide.
Her third album, Mares Profundos, was released in January 2004 on German label Deutsche Grammophon and features 11 African-sambas composed between 1962 and 1966 by guitarist Baden Powell (1937–2000) and the poet Vinicius de Moraes (1913–1980). The program closes with samba 'Lapinha' (Baden-Paulo Cesar Pinheiro).
Her fourth album, Recomeço, was released in 2008 and features poetry by Chico Buarque.
Rodrigues regularly appears at festivals of jazz and world music throughout the world, participating in several world tours. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton once said that she was the singer who he liked best in the world and mentioned her in his memoir "My Life."
