"Someone to Light Up My Life" (Portuguese: "Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você", "If Everyone Was Like You") is a song composed by

Antônio Carlos Jobim Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Considered one of the great exponents of Brazilian mu ...

, with lyrics by

Vinicius de Moraes Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes (19 October 1913 – 9 July 1980), better known as Vinícius de Moraes () and nicknamed O Poetinha ("The little poet"), was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and playwright ...

. It was written for the play '' Orfeu da Conceição'' (1956). English lyrics were added by

Gene Lees Frederick Eugene John Lees (February 8, 1928 – April 22, 2010) was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and journalist. Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States, where he was a music ...

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Elizete Cardoso Elizeth Moreira Cardoso (sometimes listed as Elisete Cardoso) (July 16, 1920 – May 7, 1990), was a singer and actress of great renown in Brazil. Biography Cardoso was born in Rio de Janeiro; her father was a serenader who played guitar, a ...

- ''Noturno'' (1957) *

Sylvia Telles Silvia D'Atri Telles (; August 27, 1934 – December 17, 1966) was a Brazilian jazz samba and bossa nova singer of the 1950s and 1960s. Life Daughter of Paulo Telles and Maria Amelia D'Atri, Sylvia was born in 1934 and she had the ambition to be ...

- ''Caricia'' (1957) * Charlie Byrd - ''Brazilian Byrd'' (1965) * Antônio Carlos Jobim - '' A Certain Mr. Jobim'' (1967), '' Terra Brasilis'' (1980) * Jack Wilson - '' Song for My Daughter'' (1969) * Frank Sinatra and Antônio Carlos Jobim – '' Sinatra & Company'' (rec. 1969, released 1971) *

- ''

En La Fusa con Maria Creuza y Toquinho ''En La Fusa con Maria Creuza y Toquinho'' is a 1970 live album by Maria Creuza and Toquinho in partnership with Vinicius de Moraes. It was recorded at the La Fusa Bar in Buenos Aires. Track listing # Copa do mundo (Maugeri, Müller, Sobrinho ...

'' (1970) *

Tony Bennett Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American retired singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a painter, having created works under his birt ...

- '' The Good Things in Life'' (1972) *

Dick Farney Farnésio Dutra e Silva (14 November 1921 – 4 August 1987), better known as Dick Farney, was a Brazilian (jazz) pianist, pop-composer, and "crooner" popular in Brazil from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s and 1980s. He began playing piano as a ...

- ''Noite'' (1981) * Sylvia Syms - ''Syms by Sinatra'' (1982) (orchestrated by Frank Sinatra) *

Kenny Burrell Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ...

- ''

Groovin' High "Groovin' High" is an influential 1945 song by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The song was a bebop mainstay that became a jazz standard, one of Gillespie's best known hits, and according to ''Bebop: The Music and Its Players'' author ...

(1984) * Mark Murphy - ''Brazil Songs'' (1984) *

Gal Costa Gal Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos (born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos; 26 September 1945 – 9 November 2022), known professionally as Gal Costa (), was a Brazilian singer of popular music. She was one of the main figures of the tro ...

- ''Gal Costa Canta Tom Jobim ao Vivo'' (1999) *

Toninho Horta Antônio Maurício Horta de Melo (born December 2, 1948) is a Brazilian jazz guitarist and vocalist. In addition to composing and performing his own work, Horta has worked for many years as arranger or sideman for Brazilian artists such as El ...

- ''To Jobim with Love'' (2008)

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1956 songs Bossa nova songs Brazilian songs Portuguese-language songs Songs with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim Songs with lyrics by Gene Lees Songs with lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes {{Brazil-music-stub

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