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.
Saudade Vem Correndo
Bebel Gilberto Lyrics
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Deixa outro amor chegar
Se a saudade vem correndo
É só para se mostrar
Sempre há tempo para amar
Quando um bem você achar
E então você vai ver
Então você vai ver
Você vai ver e vai voltar
Espere um pouco meu amor
Deixa outro amor chegar
Se a saudade vem correndo
É só para se mostrar
Quando um bom amor achar
Isso é só pra se amar
Deixa a luz do sol entrar
Pra desabrochar
Espere um pouco meu amor
Deixa outro amor chegar
Se a saudade vem correndo
É só para se mostrar
Sempre há tempo para amar
Quando um bem você achar
E então você vai ver
Você vai ver e vai voltar
Então você vai ver
Você vai ver e vai voltar
The lyrics of Bebel Gilberto's "Saudade Vem Correndo" talk about the feeling of longing and how it can be used to guide us towards finding love. The song tells us to wait a little and let another love come, because if we're feeling nostalgic, it's only to show ourselves that we're ready to love again. The lyrics also stress the importance of not rushing things, because there's always time to love when we find the right person.
The chorus of the song repeats the phrase "você vai ver e vai voltar," which means "you will see and you will come back." This repetition emphasizes the idea that love will come back to us if we give ourselves the patience and time to find it. The song ends with a call to let the sun in to help the love grow, indicating that love is something that needs to be nurtured and allowed space to flourish.
Overall, "Saudade Vem Correndo" is a hopeful and uplifting song that encourages us to trust in the process of finding love, even when it feels like it's out of reach.
Line by Line Meaning
Espere um pouco meu amor
Wait a little bit, my love
Deixa outro amor chegar
Let another love come
Se a saudade vem correndo
If the longing comes running
É só para se mostrar
It's just to show off
Sempre há tempo para amar
There is always time to love
Quando um bem você achar
When you find a good one
E então você vai ver
And then you will see
Você vai ver e vai voltar
You will see and you will return
Deixa a luz do sol entrar
Let the sunlight in
Pra desabrochar
To bloom
Quando um bom amor achar
When you find a good love
Contributed by Adalyn S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.