Carlos Lyra was there at the beginning. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1939, he was part of the small group of young musicians who gathered in the apartments of Copacabana in the late 1950s to create something new. Alongside João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, and others, Lyra helped define the sound that…
Before he was a lyricist, Vinicius de Moraes was a poet — one of the most celebrated in Brazil. Born Marcus Vinicius da Cruz de Mello Moraes in 1913, he was already a respected literary figure when he turned his attention to popular music in the 1950s. The result changed everything. His partnership with Tom…
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