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Nara Leão
Nara Leão: Muse of the Bossa Nova
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Nara Leão (pronounced LEE-yay-yo) was a celebrated Brazilian bossa nova and Tropicália pop singer in the 1960s. Her father had given her a guitar at age 12, and as a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with many of the singer-songwriters who were pioneering the bossa nova. The list included including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Many of them rehearsed in her parents' home in Rio de Janeiro's ...
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Pure Bossa Nova | Nara Leao | Album
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All About Jazz
Nara Leo was known as the “Muse of Bossa Nova" because many of the meetings which created the Bossa Nova movement happened in her Copacabana apartment. Despite having recorded all genres of Brazilian music, her small, fragile, and sensual voice would be synonymous with Bossa Nova forever. Daring and brave, Nara Leo was always a vanguard artist, often released in the unexpected. Tracks 1. Corcovado 2. Voc E ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
