"Anna Júlia" is a song by

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, first released on their 1999 self-titled debut album. It was their first mainstream hit.

Composition

The lyrics were written by

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about Anna Júlia Werneck, a

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student at

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, whom the band's producer Alex Werner was passionate about. At the time of its release the song was a hit, and got constant airplay in Brazilian radio and television. Marcelo is the composer, singer and

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player of the biggest hit of Los Hermanos, the song Anna Julia, which was later covered by

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version, featuring Capaldi,

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on solo guitar. The song was also recorded in

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by Los Hermanos, and in

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by Daniele Groff. After this initial success, Anna Julia gradually featured less in Los Hermanos'

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s. The band felt that the song, a radio ballad, did not represent the band's style, and was, according to Camelo himself, "a sticky song that the label made us play to exhaustion". This was part of the reason the band isolated themselves on a remote farm during production of their 2001 album, Bloco do Eu Sozinho, which featured a more produced sound.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anna Julia 1999 singles Los Hermanos songs Songs written by Marcelo Camelo 1999 songs