Sunday, August 7, 2011

Cheers to Inezita Barroso!

Inezita Barroso this week celebrates 60 years of her musical career.

She is an extraordinary woman of Brazilian music, born as Ines Magdalena Lima on March 1925 in São Paulo. Today, at 86 years old years, she has one of the most enduring television shows of Brazilian TV, the musical show Guitar, My Guitar (Viola, Minha Viola) at TV Culture since 1980. Beyond this point in his career, Inezita Barroso is one of the most expressive singers of Brazilian country music. Her career was started on the 50s after studying guitar and viola at a conservatory and even getting a degree in Library Science at USP.
Her first recording it was in 1951 when she recorded Ronda (Paul Vanzolini) and Moda da Pinga (Ochelsi Laureano Torres and Raul). Since then until today, she has 80 albums recorded tirelessly since the age of 78 rpm to CDs.
The importance of this singer is in here role having established, throughout her career, an immeasurable value of a great set of songs that she sang and turned the core of the Brazilian country music. Conveying it through her albums and her weekly TV show.
Congratulations to this wonderful artist.

Luar do Sertão (Catulo da Paixão Cearense / João Pernambuco)

De Papo Pro Ar (Joubert de Carvalho e Olegário Mariano)

Maringá (Joubert de Carvalho)

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