CARLOS LYRA
Bossa Nova • Brazil
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Carlos Eduardo Lyra Barbosa (11 May 1933 – 16 December 2023) was a Brazilian singer and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música popular brasileira classics. He and Antônio Carlos Jobim, were the first two music composers, together with lyricists Vinicius de Moraes and Ronaldo Boscoli, to be recorded by João Gilberto on his first LP entitled Chega de Saudade (1959), which was called the first generation of Bossa Nova. His first song to be recorded was "Menina" (1954), issued as a single by Sylvia Telles in 1955, with "Foi a noite" by Antônio Carlos Jobim on the other side of the record. The writers first met because of this single, when Jobim called Lyra "the other side of the record". At that time, both were writing their own music and lyrics creating a colloquial and completely new style. They wrote about their own experiences and feelings. A completely
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Saravá!
Bossa Nova
1969
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Bossa Nova
1994
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