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.
All Around
Bebel Gilberto Lyrics
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Que deixei meu coração se dar
Só resta a intenção de se deixar deixar
Vou te levar numa onda de paixão
Não vou parar
Nunca prá pensar
Que não sopra mais
Gotas de um momento
Que não conta mais
E a chuva na montanha
E o rio que vai pro mar
Na branca espuma do mar
Que deixei meu coração se dar
Só resta a intenção de se deixar deixar
Vou te buscar de uma sombra de pura paixão
Não vou parar
Nunca de te amar
Brilha a luz do orvalho
Que nunca partiu
Como este rio
Que não se decidiu
Se é rio da montanha
Se é rio que vai pro mar
Sonho com o vento
Que não sopra mais
Gotas de um momento
Que não conta mais
Se é chuva na montanha
Se é rio que vai pro mar
De toda a correnteza
Que tudo vai levar
Vai levar
Rio que vai pro mar, vai levar
The lyrics to Bebel Gilberto's song All Around are poetic and full of imagery that evokes feelings of love, passion, and the beauty of nature. The first verse describes the singer's heart being given away in the white foam of the sea, and all that is left is the intention to let go. The second verse speaks of dreaming about the wind that no longer blows, and memories of moments that no longer count, while the rain on the mountain and the river that flows to the sea continue on. The chorus repeats the image of the white foam of the sea and the singer's desire to take their lover on a wave of passion, never stopping to think, and never stopping their love.
Throughout the song, there is a sense of longing and uncertainty, as the singer dreams of past memories and ponders the direction of the river as it flows towards the sea. The repeated imagery of the sea and the river symbolize the continuity of life and the uncertainty of where it will lead. The song expresses the beauty of nature and the intensity of human passion, as well as the ephemeral and transient nature of both.
Line by Line Meaning
Na branca espuma do mar
In the white foam of the sea
Que deixei meu coração se dar
Where I let my heart fall
Só resta a intenção de se deixar deixar
Only the intention to let go remains
Vou te levar numa onda de paixão
I'll take you on a wave of passion
Não vou parar
I won't stop
Nunca prá pensar
Never to think
Sonho com o vento
I dream of the wind
Que não sopra mais
That no longer blows
Gotas de um momento
Drops of a moment
Que não conta mais
That no longer counts
E a chuva na montanha
And the rain on the mountain
E o rio que vai pro mar
And the river that goes to the sea
Vou te buscar de uma sombra de pura paixão
I'll find you in a shadow of pure passion
Não vou parar
I won't stop
Nunca de te amar
Never of loving you
Brilha a luz do orvalho
The dew's light shines
Que nunca partiu
That never left
Como este rio
Like this river
Que não se decidiu
That hasn't decided
Se é rio da montanha
If it's a mountain river
Se é rio que vai pro mar
If it's a river that goes to the sea
De toda a correnteza
Of all the current
Que tudo vai levar
That will take everything away
Rio que vai pro mar, vai levar
River that goes to the sea, will take
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Bebel Gilberto, Didi Gutman, Marius De Vries
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