Alceu Valença (born July 1, 1946 in São Bento do Una, Pernambuco, Brazil) i… Read Full Bio ↴Alceu Valença (born July 1, 1946 in São Bento do Una, Pernambuco, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, writer, performer, actor, and poet.

Alceu Valenca was born in countryside Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. He is considered the most successful artist in achieving an aesthetic balance between traditional northeastern Brazilian music and a broad range of electronic sounds and effects from pop music. One can find traces of maracatu, coco and "repentes de viola" (improvising fast-paced Brazilian folk music) in most of his songs. Alceu was able to utilize the electric guitar the electric bass, and lately even a synthesizer was added to his broad scope of musical instruments.

Because of that, Alceu was able to recreate Northeastern traditional music, like baiao, coco, toada, maracatu, frevo, caboclinhos, embolada and repentes: all sung with a sometimes rock sometimes alternative sounding music background. His music and his themes are intangible, universal and unlimited. However, his aesthetic basis is genuinely Brazilian Northeastern music.

Escorregando No Pífano
Alceu Valença Lyrics

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"Eu sou o Véio quiabo
Camaleão das foiage
Carrego as moça no bolso
E as véia na pabulage"
(DP - texto de Pastoril)

Quando estou escorregando
No seu corpo gemedor

Fico todo lambuzado
Meu pife tem esse sabor de pecado
Escorregado lambuzado gemedor
Balança bole remexe gostoso
Meu jeito é manhoso de te assoprar

Balança bole remexe gostoso
Meu jeito é dengoso de te dedilhar

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Alceu Valença's song Escorregando No Pífano are full of metaphors and imagery related to the sounds and movements of music - specifically, music played on the pífano, a type of flute used in traditional Brazilian music. The opening lines, "Eu sou o Véio quiabo, Camaleão das foiage, Carrego as moça no bolso, E as véia na pabulage" ("I am the Old Okra, Chameleon of the foliage, I carry the girls in my pocket, And the old ladies in the bushes"), establish a playful and somewhat irreverent tone, using slang and regional expressions to describe the singer's role as a musician and entertainer. The references to carrying girls in his pocket and old ladies in the bushes suggest a double entendre of sexual innuendo.

Line by Line Meaning

Eu sou o Véio quiabo
I am the experienced man who knows his way around

Camaleão das foiage
Adaptable to any situation like a chameleon in the foliage

Carrego as moça no bolso
I have the young girls eating out of the palm of my hand

E as véia na pabulage
I charm the older women with my smooth talk

Quando estou escorregando
When I am sliding

No seu corpo gemedor
On your moaning body

Fico todo lambuzado
I get all greasy

Meu pife tem esse sabor de pecado
My flute has the flavor of sin

Escorregado lambuzado gemedor
Sliding, greasy, moaning

Balança bole remexe gostoso
Sway, shake, move deliciously

Meu jeito é manhoso de te assoprar
My way of seducing you is to softly blow into your ear