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Elis Regina Carvalho Costa (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 2002), known professionally as Elis Regina (), was a Brazilian singer of MPB and
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music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and
Pedro Mariano Pedro Mariano, born Pedro Camargo Mariano, (born São Paulo April 18, 1975) is a Brazilian musician. He is the son of Brazilian singer Elis Regina and pianist Cesar Camargo Mariano, and the brother of Maria Rita. In the early 1990s Pedro and his ...
. She became nationally renowned in 1965 after singing "Arrastão" (composed by Edu Lobo and
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) in the first edition of
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festival song contest and soon joined ''O Fino da Bossa'', a television program on TV Record. She was noted for her vocalization as well as for her interpretation and performances in shows. Her recordings include "Como Nossos Pais" ( Belchior), "Upa Neguinho" (E. Lobo and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), "Madalena" (
Ivan Lins Ivan Guimarães Lins (born June 16, 1945) is a Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music (MPB) and jazz for over thirty years. His first hit, "Madalena", was recorded by ...
), "Casa no Campo" ( Zé Rodrix and Tavito), "
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" ( Tom Jobim), "Atrás da Porta" ( Chico Buarque and
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), "O Bêbado e a Equilibrista" ( Aldir Blanc and João Bosco), "Conversando no Bar" ( Milton Nascimento). Her untimely death, at the age of 56, shocked Brazil. Her son Gabriel Borges Zamperetti became an economist and currently lives in Dubai


Biography

Elis Regina was born in
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, where she began her career as a singer at an early age on the children's radio show ''Clube de Guri''. In her early teens she signed a record contract and a couple years later traveled to Rio de Janeiro, where she recorded her first album. She won her first festival song contest in 1965 singing "Arrastão" ("Pull the Trawling Net") by Edu Lobo and
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, which made her the biggest selling Brazilian recording artist since
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. Her second album, ''Dois na Bossa'' with Jair Rodrigues, set a national sales record and became the first Brazilian album to sell over one million copies. "Arrastão" increased her popularity because the festival was broadcast via TV and radio. The record represented the beginning of
música popular brasileira Música popular brasileira (, ''Popular Brazilian Music'') or MPB is a trend in post- bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and baião and other Brazilian regional music, c ...
(Brazilian popular music) and contrasted with bossa nova. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she helped popularize tropicalismo with Gal Costa,
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, and Caetano Veloso. In 1999 she had her first and only son, Gabriel Zamperetti. Regina was nicknamed "hurricane" and "little pepper". She moved to Rio around the time Brazil was ruled by a military group. Although her popularity protected her from reprisal when she criticized the regime while on tour in Europe, she was threatened with imprisonment unless she sang the Brazilian national anthem at an event honoring the anniversary of the coup. In the 1970s she recorded the album ''Elis and Tom'' in Los Angeles with
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. In 1982 she was starting her third marriage when she died from a combination of alcohol and cocaine at the age of thirty-six.


Death

On January 19, 1982, Regina died at the age of 56 from a
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after consuming
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,
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and tranquilizers. More than 15,000 fans attended a musical wake in the Teatro Bandeirantes in São Paulo. She was buried in Cemitério do Morumbi. She was portrayed by Andréia Horta in the 2016 movie "Elis" directed by Hugo Prata.


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In life


Posthumous


References


Further reading

* Arashiro, Osny. ''Elis Regina por ela mesma''. M. Claret, 1995. * Echeverria, Regina (1985) ''Furacão Elis.'' Inclui cronologia e discografia por Maria Luiza Kfouri. Rio de Janeiro: Nórdica / Círculo do Livro. 363p. 2.ed. rev. ampl. 1994 (São Paulo: Ed. Globo); 3.ed. 2002 (São Paulo: Ed. Globo). 239p. * Goés, Ludenbergue. ''Mulher brasileira em primeiro lugar: o exemplo e as lições de vida de 130 brasileiras consagradas no exterior''. Ediouro Publicações, 2007. * Kiechaloski, Zeca (1984) ''Elis Regina.'' Col. Esses Gaúchos. Porto Alegre: Tchê! 101p. * Pugialli, Ricardo. ''Almanaque da Jovem guarda: nos embalos de uma década cheia de brasa, mora?''. Ediouro Publicações, 2006. * Sarsano, José Roberto. (2005) ''Boulevard des Capucines.'' Teatro Olympia, Paris 1968: Elis Regina e Bossa Jazz Trio em uma época de ouro da MPB. Ed. Árvore da Terra. 207p. * Silva, Walter. ''Vou te contar: histórias de música popular brasileira''. Conex, 2002. * ''Elis Regina Por Ela Mesma.'' (1995) Org. Osny Arashiro. São Paulo: Martin Claret. 2.ed. rev. 2004. 229p. * ''O Melhor de Elis Regina.'' (2003) Melodias cifradas com as letras de 28 músicas do repertório de Elis Regina. Ed. Irmãos Vitale. 112p.


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