A researcher of Brazilian popular music, its rhythms and folklore, she has also traveled to many countries representing the Brazilian culture. A connoisseur of African music, dance, traditions, and religions, she converted to Candomblé and took Afro-Brazilian culture into her songs and costumes. She was one of the singers who recorded the most songs by the composers of Portela, her favorite samba school. She was also the first female Brazilian singer to sell more than one hundred thousand records, breaking a taboo according to which women did not sell records in Brazil. During her whole career she sold four million four hundred thousand records. She was considered by Rolling Stone magazine as the ninth greatest Brazilian voice and, by the same magazine, the fifty-first greatest Brazilian artist of all time.
On April 2, 1983, she died at age 40, after suffering from anaphylaxis during a surgery to treat varicose veins. Even today she remains one of the most popular singers in Brazil.
Coração Leviano
Clara Nunes Lyrics
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Parte sem dizer adeus
Nem lembra dos meus desenganos
Fere quem tudo perdeu
Ah coração leviano não sabe o que fez do meu
Ah coração leviano não sabe o que fez do meu (mas trama)
Este pobre navegante meu coração amante
Enfrentou a tempestade
No mar da paixão e da loucura
Fruto da minha aventura
Em busca da felicidade
Ah coração teu engano foi esperar por um bem
De um coração leviano que nunca será de ninguém
In Clara Nunes's song Coração Leviano, she sings about a fickle heart that makes plans in secret, leaves without saying goodbye, and doesn't remember the pain it caused to those who have lost everything. Clara addresses this "coração leviano" or fickle heart, saying it doesn't seem to know what it has done to her. She goes on to refer to herself as a "pobre navegante," or a poor sailor, who has faced storms (tempestade) on the sea of passion and madness in search of happiness. The heart's mistake was to wait for something good from a heart that belongs to nobody, one that cannot love truly.
The lyrics in the song express the pain of loving someone who doesn't reciprocate those feelings. Clara is describing someone who abandons and causes pain to those who give their all, hoping for something in return. The song is a lamentation, mourning a lost love, and reflects on the heart's fickleness that can cause great harm to those who love deeply. The combination of the powerful beats of the music and the lamenting tone of the lyrics create an emotional song that resonates with many who have loved and lost.
Line by Line Meaning
Trama em segredo teus planos
You plot your plans in secret
Parte sem dizer adeus
You leave without saying goodbye
Nem lembra dos meus desenganos
You don't remember my disillusionments
Fere quem tudo perdeu
You hurt those who have lost everything
Ah coração leviano não sabe o que fez do meu
Oh fickle heart, you don't know what you've done to mine
Ah coração leviano não sabe o que fez do meu (mas trama)
Oh fickle heart, you don't know what you've done to mine (but still plots)
Este pobre navegante meu coração amante
This poor sailor, my loving heart
Enfrentou a tempestade
Faced the storm
No mar da paixão e da loucura
In the sea of passion and madness
Fruto da minha aventura
Fruit of my adventure
Em busca da felicidade
In search of happiness
Ah coração teu engano foi esperar por um bem
Oh heart, your mistake was to expect kindness
De um coração leviano que nunca será de ninguém
From a fickle heart that will never belong to anyone
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Raul Geraldo
Essa é uma das músicas da Clara que eu mais amo aí eu não sei como dizer mas a voz dela vai lá no fundo do meu coração adoro
Ricardo Marley
Que pena que NÃO fazem mais cantoras como essa Eterna CLARA NUNES
Paulaandrea Silva Bonifacio
Ah.. como amo essa voz! 🎶🎤
Como amo essa mulher!! ♥♥
#ClaraNunesForever
PedroAk jr
Que música linda! Sempre fico admirado como que esses caras fazem essas poesias maravilhosas. E claro, a voz de Clara Nunes não é apenas a cereja do bolo...é a confeitaria inteira! E estará viva eternamente.
Alexandre Cassimiro
Clara Nunes sempre me emociona ao ouvi _la !Que voz!samba maravilhoso do Mestre Paulinho da Viola!Clara e Elis Regina pra mim são insuperáveis!minhas duas cantoras favoritas!
Nelio Bispo
E única, eternamente maravilhosa.
Karen Bright
" reckless heart " ..
She talks about her lover, a sailor who had to leave her alone.
Sad and magnificient !
Gilberto Basilio
Karen - Clara was a of principal singers of popular music and the kind music called "samba" from Brazil. She's gone from this world in 1983.
Rui Santos rui.santos
Paulinho da Viola, the prince of Samba!
Sandra Dutra
Maravilhosa! Eterna!