![]() ![]() ![]() She released CDs at an overwhelming rate the best of them include tributes to two samba legends, Cartola and Nelson Cavaquinho, and an homage to Ivan Lins & Vitor Martins. In love with New York, she kept an apartment there for years as she toured the country Andrade even sang at the Hollywood Bowl. this mouth!" She let out an orgasmic squeal. Introducing her 31-year-old keyboard player João Carlos Coutinho, Andrade moaned: "This black hair. Her songs were almost all in Portuguese, but her sometimes salacious humor, voiced in slow, deliberate English, made her audiences roar and her musicians blush. One backstage photo shows her with Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett and Peter Allen. Fueled by raves in The New York Times and elsewhere that heralded her as a hidden gem of Brazilian jazz, Andrade packed the club. But only in 1992, when she played her first of several engagements at the Ballroom, a Manhattan cabaret, did her stateside career take off. And when Fitzgerald and Vaughan came to Mexico, she got to know them both.Īfter years of mid-level success in Latin America, she made her long-dreamed-of U.S. She fell in love with the heated sensuality of boleros, which became a staple of her repertoire. It took them to Mexico, where Andrade wound up living for almost seven years. In 1965, Andrade and a popular baritone crooner, Pery Ribeiro, formed Gemini V, a bossa group. "Leny was never a bossa nova singer," notes composer Carlos Lyra, one of the music's creators she sang bossa not with its trademark featherweight lilt but with the forceful swing of her American idols - Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae. ![]() But on her second LP, A Arte Maior de Leny Andrade, made with the trio of a top bossa drummer, Milton Banana, she found her voice. One of them, Beco das Garrafas (Bottles Bar), located in Copacabana, was famous as a cradle of the bossa nova.Īndrade's first album, made in 1961, found her singing slow, romantic samba of a bygone era. Guided by her half-brother Dudu, a sax and flute player, the still-underage Leny began singing in clubs. The singer was Dolores Duran, a young Brazilian star and an early songwriting partner of Antônio Carlos Jobim. Her ambitions were sealed when she heard the wordless, instrumentalized jazz vocalizing known as scat. But in 1958, a new sound, bossa nova, enchanted the teenager she told her aghast mother that she was quitting classical music to go into pop. She was good enough to win a scholarship to the Brazilian Conservatory of Music. 25, 1943, Leny de Andrade Lima studied classical piano for a decade at her mother's behest. entering my contented heart as if I were going to be happy forever."īorn in Rio on Jan. With Andrade in mind, Martins described a voice like a laser beam, "getting closer, closer. Paquito D'Rivera, the Grammy-winning reed player, saluted her on his 1990 composition "For Leny." She inspired Vitor Martins, one of Brazil's foremost lyricists, to write the song "Cantor da Noite (Nightclub Singer)" with his renowned partner, the composer Ivan Lins. "As a singer Leny was an exceptional musician," says the revered Brazilian pianist, arranger and composer César Camargo Mariano, with whom Andrade collaborated on two albums. The news was shared with NPR by Eliana Peranzzetta, who, with her husband, the arranger and pianist Gilson Peranzzetta, had cared for Andrade for several years. Her career spanned 65 years, during which she made fans of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillespie and many more illustrious contemporaries.Īndrade died of Lewy body dementia on July 24. With a thick, husky voice seasoned by cigarette smoke and late hours, Andrade sang torridly of love she could also swing as hard as any American jazz singer. Andrade was a percussive, samba-driven improviser, an interpreter as worldly-wise as Édith Piaf and a consummate nightclub artist. Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, has died in Rio de Janeiro. Andrade died on Jin Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Leny Andrade performs at Birdland in New York in 2008. ![]()
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