At the age of seven, Bebel made an appearance on her mother's first solo album Miúcha. At age nine, Bebel performed with her mother and jazz saxophonist Stan Getz at a jazz festival in New York's Carnegie Hall. Back in Brazil, Bebel performed and recorded for the soundtrack of the children's musical Os Saltimbancos, written by Sergio Bardotti and Chico Buarque. Later on Bebel joined an experimental theatrical group and was a member of the founding team of the performance space Circo Voador (Flying Circus) at Ipanema Beach. In this group she met singer/songwriter Cazuza, who became a close friend and soon a major rock star in Brazil during the 1980s.
Throughout the 1990s, Bebel collaborated with a variety of musical stars such as Arto Lindsay, Thievery Corporation, David Byrne, Towa Tei, Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque. In 1996 Bebel was featured in the AIDS charity project Red Hot + Rio, produced by her close friend and collaborator Béco Dranoff. By the mid 1990s, Bebel also had successes as songwriter with the international dance hits "Technova" and "Batucada" in collaboration with producers Towa Tei and Arto Lindsay.
Bebel was featured on the soundtrack of Brad Anderson's film Next Stop Wonderland with Vinicius Cantuária and Mauro Refosco. In the late 1990s, Bebel moved to London where she began to develop the sound featured on her critically acclaimed debut album Tanto Tempo. During this period, she met Suba, the multi-talented Serbian producer living in São Paulo who ended up writing and producing several tracks on Tanto Tempo. While in London, she also worked with DJ/producer Amon Tobin, Dutch duo Arling & Cameron and singer Nina Miranda.
In 2000, Bebel's Tanto Tempo album was released on Ziriguiboom (Crammed Discs sub-label) and has sold over one million copies worldwide. The album was also nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards. Her second album, Bebel Gilberto (2004), was also released to great critical acclaim, receiving a MOBO Award in the UK and also a World Music Grammy nomination.
Also in 2006, Bebel started writing and producing the songs that would become part of her third album Momento, released in April 2007. On this album, Bebel collaborated with UK producer Guy Sigsworth, her friends Didi Gutman and Sabina Sciubba (from NY based band Brazilian Girls) and the Rio based Orquestra Imperial.
Gilberto's most recent album, All In One, was released in the US in September 2009 by jazz imprint Verve.
Alguém
Bebel Gilberto Lyrics
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Não tem quem tem
Não tem
De vez em quando tem
De vez em quando vem
De vez em quando tem
De vez em quando tem você (bis)
Se tem não sei se tem
E quem tem não vê
Nem pensa em saber
De vez em quando vem
De vez em quando tem
De vez em quando tem você
De vez em quando tem
De vez em quando vem
De vez em quando tem você
Se tem não sei se tem
E quem tem não vê
Nem pensa em saber
Quem tem não tem
E o que se tem?
Se não tem mais alguém
De vez em quando tem
De vez em quando vem
De vez em quando tem você
Tem quem tem
Não tem quem tem
Não tem, não tem,
Não tem, quem tem
The lyrics to "Alguém" by Bebel Gilberto are a reflection on the fickle nature of relationships and how fleeting they can be. The song expresses the idea that sometimes we have someone in our lives and other times we don't, and that even when we do have someone, we're often unsure if they are really there for us or if we are just imagining it. The lyrics also suggest that even while in a relationship, we may still feel alone or disconnected from the person we are with.
The repetition of the lines "Tem quem tem / Não tem quem tem / Não tem / De vez em quando tem" (Some have / Some don't have / No one has / Occasionally someone has) highlights the idea of impermanence and how nothing in life is guaranteed. The lines "Se tem não sei se tem / E quem tem não vê / Nem pensa em saber" (If there is someone, I don't know if there is / And those who have don't see / They don't even think about it) convey a sense of detachment and apathy, suggesting that sometimes we take the people in our lives for granted.
Overall, the lyrics to "Alguém" suggest that relationships are complex and often transient experiences, and that it is important to appreciate the people in our lives while we have them, as they may not always be there.
Line by Line Meaning
Tem quem tem
Some people have
Não tem quem tem
Those who have, sometimes lose it
Não tem
Sometimes there's nothing
De vez em quando tem
Occasionally there is something
De vez em quando vem
Occasionally something comes
De vez em quando tem
Occasionally there is something
De vez em quando tem você (bis)
Occasionally it's you who is there
Se tem não sei se tem
I don't know if it exists
E quem tem não vê
Those who have it don't always see it
Nem pensa em saber
And they don't think to find out
Quem tem não tem
Those who have it, sometimes lose it
E o que se tem?
What do we have?
Se não tem mais alguém
If there is no one else
De vez em quando tem
Occasionally there is something
De vez em quando vem
Occasionally something comes
De vez em quando tem você
Occasionally it's you who is there
Tem quem tem
Some people have
Não tem quem tem
Those who have, sometimes lose it
Não tem, não tem,
Sometimes there's nothing, nothing
Não tem, quem tem
There's nothing for those who have it
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