Since her breakthrough, Mercury has become one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide. Daniela has a degree in dance from the Federal University of Bahia, having started her studies in this art since she was four years old, later becoming a teacher of jazz, modern and classical ballet, besides having specialized and performed in other genres, such as Afro Dance and contemporary dance. She began singing professionally at the age of fifteen, the same age at which she rode a trio elétrico for the first time, integrating her career as singer and dancer.
She released her eponymous album in 1991, followed by O Canto da Cidade in the following year, leveraging her career as a national artist and bringing the axé music genre to the forefront. Over the years, she released several albums, generating great hits like "Swing da Cor", "O Canto da Cidade", "À Primeira Vista", "Rapunzel", "Nobre Vagabundo", "Ilê Pérola Negra (O Canto do Negro)", "Mutante", "Maimbê Dandá", "Levada Brasileira", "Oyá Por Nós", among others. She recorded a DVD commemorating 25 years of Cirque du Soleil and was part of the Montreal International Jazz Festival. In addition, she participated in Alejandro Sanz's album and sang with Paul McCartney in Norway during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Winner of a Latin Grammy for her album Balé Mulato - Ao Vivo, she also received six Brazilian Music Awards, an APCA award, three Multishow awards, and two VMB awards, for best music video and photography. On television she was a judge and mentor for the talent shows Popstars, Superstar, and The Voice Kids Portugal.
In 2013, Daniela released in partnership with her wife Malu Verçosa, whom she married in Portugal the same year, her first book, Daniela e Malu: Uma História de Amor.
Attentive to the Brazilian social reality and with a great desire to contribute to the preservation of our cultural matrices, Daniela created her Institute "Sol da Liberdade" in 2008. Today, in partnership with UNICEF and ESPN Brasil, the ISL carries out the Caravana da Música project. The Caravana da Música is an itinerant project that has been touring Brazil since 2007, visiting one city every month. The cities to be visited are indicated by UNICEF, according to the HDI (Human Development Index) and the IDI (Child Development Index). In each of the cities visited, the "Music Caravan" sets up a large infrastructure where it offers 3,000 children an unprecedented experience with dance, music, theater, instrument building, circus art, and several other artistic experiences. In addition to the children, the Music Caravan also offers training in Art Education for 250 public school teachers from each of the visited cities. The Music Caravan has already directly assisted more than 50 thousand children and 30 thousand teachers. Considering that each public school teacher trained by the Caravan becomes an Art Education multiplier, it is estimated that the Music Caravan has already indirectly reached more than half a million Brazilians. All the activities of the Music Caravan in the countryside of Brazil are recorded by the ESPN Brazil team, which broadcasts a monthly documentary about the project's activities. The documentary is shown in Brazil and in 157 other countries.
Besides presiding the Instituto Sol da Liberdade, Daniela is also UNICEF's National Goodwill Ambassador, a title she received in 1995, when she became the second Brazilian personality to receive such honor. She has also participated in several benefit shows in favor of children, among them the UNICEF/ Rede Globo's Criança Esperança and the AACD/SBT's Teleton. Part of the rights to her 1998 album Elétrica were donated to UNICEF. She is also an ambassador for the Ayrton Senna Institute. Daniela has also participated in other charitable projects, not directly linked to children. On October 7, 2003, she took part in the show Solidariedade Brasil-Noruega in favor of Fome Zero at the National Theater, in Brasilia. She is also connected to the NGO América Latina em Ação Solidária (ALAS), having participated in September 2007 in an advertising campaign promoting aid to the earthquake victims in Peru. In 2013 she was invited to participate in the UN global campaign, Free & Equal, along with Ricky Martin and other international artists.
O Reggae E O Mar
Daniela Mercury Lyrics
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Invadiu todo o espaço
Essa voz vem mar além
Além-mar vento vem
Tempo vai me levar
Onde a onda é a dança do mar
Maré cheia balança
Como adoro o mar
Por toda a terra se ouvia cantando
No horizonte a linha do oceano
Marley, Marley, Marley, Marley
O reggae é barco a vela navegando
Quem balançou balançou
Quem não balançou vai balançar
Quem balançou balançou
Quem não balançou vai balançar
In "O reggae e o mar" by Daniela Mercury, the song describes the essence of reggae music and the ocean. The song's First Verse opens with "A voice invaded all the space, this voice came from the sea, beyond the sea came the wind, time will take me." The voice that the song refers to is the serene and majestic voice of the ocean. The ocean is known for its calming, tranquil, and soothing effect, as if it's a natural therapy for the human soul.
The Second Verse describes the joyous feeling of being near the ocean while listening to reggae music. The ocean creates a rhythmic dance with its waves, while the reggae music complements this movement. Daniela Mercury sings about "Loving reggae like she loves the sea" and "how the entire earth can hear the people singing to Marley and his reggae music." Marley is mentioned several times in the song, where his reggae music is considered a sailor's ship, voyaging towards new places.
The song's Chorus describes how people would either move to the rhythm of reggae or eventually be moved by it. The phrase "Quem balançou, balançou, quem não balançou, vai balançar" translates to "Whoever rocked, rocked, and whoever hasn't, will." The song has an energetic reggae beat to it, making the listener sway to the rhythm.
Overall, O reggae e o mar emphasizes these two elements' importance - reggae and the ocean, which are both vital to Brazil's culture and history. It highlights the flow and rhythm of music and the endless movement of the sea.
Line by Line Meaning
Uma voz
The sound of a voice
Invadiu todo o espaço
Filled up the entire space
Essa voz vem mar além
This voice comes from beyond the sea
Além-mar vento vem
Wind comes from across the sea
Tempo vai me levar
Time will take me away
Onde a onda é a dança do mar
Where the wave is the dance of the sea
Maré cheia balança
High tide sways
Eu adoro o reggae
I love reggae
Como adoro o mar
Just as I adore the sea
Por toda a terra se ouvia cantando
All over the land, singing was heard
No horizonte a linha do oceano
On the horizon, the line of the ocean
Marley, Marley, Marley, Marley
Marley, Marley, Marley, Marley
O reggae é barco a vela navegando
Reggae is the sailboat sailing
Quem balançou balançou
Whoever swayed, swayed
Quem não balançou vai balançar
Whoever didn't sway will sway
Quem balançou balançou
Whoever swayed, swayed
Quem não balançou vai balançar
Whoever didn't sway will sway
Contributed by Isaac F. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@eupremiumm723
Sincronia Total:
Música x Performance da cantora
Principalmente depois do 1 minuto
(Seriam muitos elogios...)
Ela é muito fera!
Qua olho para esse clip
E olho para o povo hoje,
Eu tenho a impressão que o povo morreu e esqueceram de enterrar
@karen2310ful
Uma voz
Invadiu todo o espaço
Essa voz vem mar além
Além-mar vento vem
Tempo vai me levar
Onde a onda é a dança do mar
Maré cheia balança
Eu adoro o reggae
Como adoro o mar
Por toda a terra se ouvia cantando
No horizonte a linha do oceano
Marley, Marley, Marley, Marley
O reggae é barco a vela navegando
Quem balançou balançou
Quem não balançou vai balançar
Quem balançou balançou
Quem não balançou vai balançar
@eupremiumm723
Sincronia Total:
Música x Performance da cantora
Principalmente depois do 1 minuto
(Seriam muitos elogios...)
Ela é muito fera!
Qua olho para esse clip
E olho para o povo hoje,
Eu tenho a impressão que o povo morreu e esqueceram de enterrar
@roseanepereira2974
Concordo.
@amonatureza6607
música que marcou minha adolescência,sou evangélica e ainda amo Daniela e suas músicas
@lucasbispo7807
Essas musicas da Bahia sao contagiante da uma vontade de dancar
@jarbasgasparteixeira7517
ESSA MÚSICA PRA MIM É NOSTALGIA PURA, ME FAZ VOLTAR O PASSADO QUANDO EU AINDA ERA ADOLESCENTE
@drbene100
Eu também Jarbas!! Gostoso Demais sentir isso. Sou do interior da Bahia, pertinho de Salvador, em Santo Amaro e ouvíamos muito essas músicas!!
@karen2310ful
Uma voz
Invadiu todo o espaço
Essa voz vem mar além
Além-mar vento vem
Tempo vai me levar
Onde a onda é a dança do mar
Maré cheia balança
Eu adoro o reggae
Como adoro o mar
Por toda a terra se ouvia cantando
No horizonte a linha do oceano
Marley, Marley, Marley, Marley
O reggae é barco a vela navegando
Quem balançou balançou
Quem não balançou vai balançar
Quem balançou balançou
Quem não balançou vai balançar
@lucianamdefigueiredo898
karen Garate
@raphaelbhz
Poesia!
@sthesadala
😷👍🏼🌻