Artist: Simone
Genre(s):
Other
Latin
Discography:
Sesso Gioia Rock N' Roll
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Il Mondo Che Non C'e'
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Giorni
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
25 de Dezembro
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Raio De Luz
Year:
Tracks: 10
Having had a promising beginning as ane of the big voices of MPB, Simone has recorded more than than 31 albums, progressively abandoning the more militant repertory of compositions by João Bosco/ldir Blanc, Geraldo Vandré, Chico Buarque, and Milton Nascimento in favor of mainstream romantic songs, with which she has enjoyed external success.
Daughter of an opera singer and a distaff pianist, Simone stirred to São Paulo at 16, pursuing a vocation as a basketball participant (she even was a member of the national team). She recorded her number one LP, Simone, in 1973. She was invited by HermÃnio Bello de Carvalho to do in Brussels, Belgium, and Paris, France, and recorded the live albums Simone et Roberto Ribeiro Avec João de Aquino à Bruxelles and Expo-Som 73 - Ao Vivo - Márcia, Leny Andrade, Simone, e Ary Vilela. Next came a tour through the U.S. and Canada. With João de Aquino, transcription the live record album Festabrasil - Simone e João de Aquino. The second LP came in 1975, Quatro Paredes, having hits with songs by João Bosco/Aldir Blanc. The first-class honours degree big wireless hits were "Jura Secreta" (Sueli Costa/Abel Silva) and "Face a Face" (Sueli Costa/Cacaso). In 1976, she recorded "O Que Será" (Marx Buarque), which was the idea of Cacá Diegues's photographic film Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos. She had "Cigarra" (of the homonymous LP, of 1978) written specially for her by Milton Nascimento/Fernando Brant. In 1979, she had her greatest hit with "Começar de Novo" (Ivan Lins/Vitor Martins), which was included in the Malu Mulher TV Globo series. The song was included in the Pedaços LP, which also had "Tô Voltando" (MaurÃcio Tapajós/Paulo César Pinheiro), a congressman song of the catamenia of the end of the military regimen and of the advent of political pardon. In 1980, she re-recorded some other political strain, the pacificist hymn "Pra Não Dizer Que Não Falei Das Flores" (Geraldo Vandré). She was the first-class honours degree artist to do so, as the strain had been censored until then. She was the first-class honours degree singer to pack a stadium (Maracanãzinho) in 1981. In 1982, she brought 15,000 people each night to the Morumbi sports stadium (São Paulo). Simone was hired by the American CBS, recorded in the U.S, in the same year, being praised by critics. In that geological period, marked by brobdingnagian success, she had hits with "Alma" (Sueli Costa/Abel Silva), "Tô Que Tô" (Kleiton/Kledir), "Um Desejo Só Não Basta" (Francisco Casaverde/Fausto Nilo), "Você é Real," and "Iolanda" (Pablo Milanéz/Chico Buarque). She released Café Com Leite in 1996; the CD was dedicated to Martinho da Vila's compositions, with the author sharing the data track "Ex-Amor" with her.
Simone has continued to do regularly in Brazil, Portugal, and the U.S. In 1997, she was included in the Sony Music Celebridades da MPB (MPB Celebrities) series (sharing the privilege with Ângela Maria, SÃlvio Caldas, and Cauby Peixoto, with a four-CD boxful commemorative 25 years of her career (one year in get on). In 2000, she released FICA Comigo Esta Noite, with classics of the Brazilian amatory samba-canção repertory.
John Tejeda
