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.
Trio Metal
Daniela Mercury Lyrics
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Eletricidade via, nua nação tropical
Um passo plugado no mundo inteiro
Um rock prensado pro carnaval
É o tempo no espaço, é um povo em peso
Balançando na voltagem do farol
Ter um futuro aquecido num gerador de estrelas
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Pro meu bloco Crocodilo, um choque de beijos pra ver tremer o céude fe...ve...rei...ro
Quero ver, quero ver, quero ver
Quero ter, quero ter, quero ter, ô
O som do trio elétrico de Osmar e de Dodô
Quero ver, quero ver, quero ver
Quero ter, quero ter, quero ter, ô
O som da guitarra elétrica de Arman...di...nho
The lyrics of Daniela Mercury's "Trio Metal" describe a high-energy, electric atmosphere where heavy metal and Brazilian carnival culture collide. The "mass in a can" is a reference to the canned music played on the trio elétrico, a truck with giant speakers that drives through the streets during carnival. The singer notes that this canned music is now trying to mimic the sound of heavy metal. The electric energy is palpable, as the people dance and move together in unity to the sound of the farol (headlights) on the truck. The lyrics capture the feeling of being swept up in the moment, of losing oneself in the music and the electricity.
The song also reflects the fusion of different musical genres in Brazilian culture, particularly in Bahia, where Daniela Mercury comes from. The trio elétrico was created by musicians Osmar Macedo and Dodô Nascimento in Salvador, Bahia in the 1950s. They mounted speakers and amplifiers on a truck and played traditional carnival tunes, but added electric guitars and drums, effectively creating a new genre of music that fused African rhythms, Brazilian samba, and rock and roll. Mercury pays homage to these pioneers in the song, referencing their names and their influence on the music scene in Bahia.
Line by Line Meaning
A massa em lata invadia, metida a heavy metal
Crowds of people in metal cans, pretending to be heavy metal
Eletricidade via, nua nação tropical
Electricity flowing through a naked tropical nation
Um passo plugado no mundo inteiro
A step plugged into the entire world
Um rock prensado pro carnaval
A pressed rock for the Carnival
É o tempo no espaço, é um povo em peso
It's time in space, it's a heavy people
Balançando na voltagem do farol
Swinging on the lighthouse voltage
Ter um futuro aquecido num gerador de estrelas
To have a heated future in a star generator
Pro meu bloco Crocodilo, um choque de beijos pra ver tremer o céu de fe...ve...rei...ro
For my Crocodile block, a shock of kisses to make the sky tremble in February...fe...fe...february
Quero ver, quero ver, quero ver
I want to see, I want to see, I want to see
Quero ter, quero ter, quero ter, ô
I want to have, I want to have, I want to have, oh
O som do trio elétrico de Osmar e de Dodô
The sound of the electric trio of Osmar and Dodô
O som da guitarra elétrica de Arman...di...nho
The sound of the electric guitar of Arman...di...nho
Contributed by Bentley V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
silva As
Uma canção que homenageia
O trio elétrico de Dodô e Osmar
A guitarra elétrica de Armandinho
E o carnaval da Bahia que eu amo tanto
Uma cantora de trio aqui em cima do palco
Pra levar vocês pro lugar mais lindo do mundo
A massa em lata invadia, metida a heavy metal
Eletricidade via, nua nação tropical
A massa em lata invadia, metida a heavy metal
Eletricidade via, nua nação tropical
Um passo plugado no mundo inteiro
Um rock prensado pro carnaval
É o tempo no espaço, é um povo em peso
Balançando na voltagem do farol
Ter um futuro aquecido num gerador de estrelas
Pro meu bloco Crocodilo, um choque de beijos pra ver
Tremer o céu de fe-ve-rei-ro
Quero ver, quero ver, quero ver
Quero ter, quero ter, quero ter, quero ter ô
O som do trio elétrico de Osmar e de Dodô…
Henrique Correia
A melhor música do carnaval de todos os tempos!
Makely Rodrigues
Isso é que é musica isso e um hino 👏👏👏 musica de verdade amo essa música ❤ amo o mês do carnaval só pra curtir essas músicas contagiantes, alegria de verdade. vem carnaval 2022 pra curtir esse som contagiante que é Maraaaa. DANIELA MERCURY essa mulher e elétrica demais amooo....❤❤
Marcus Aramis Trovador
Esqueceu de dizer que a música também homenageia o heavy metal, pois o mesmo é citado na letra, além dos padrões de guitarra usados nessa música que pertencem ao estilo. Uma obra prima da música popular brasileira.
aldieres dias
@ltw -br é lenha pai!
ltw -br
Homenagem ao brocador da GUIBAI, a senhora guitarra baiana: ARMANDINHO...
O SOM DO TRIO ELÉTRICO DE OSMAR e de DODÔ...
Porque a Bahêa é lenha...
Tatiana Cristina Fernandes
Essa música é demais, no carnaval sempre me lembro dela.
CAPITAO CLIPES
Música linda.. Boa podemos esquecer quem fez, nosso grande Renan Ribeiro
aroldo marcospereira primo
Curti muito no carnaval de São Paulo no último dia a Daniela cantou essa música adorei
Delvan Silva
Isso que e Axé de verdade!! Só Daniela Mercury pra fazer dessa forma
CAPITAO CLIPES
Lembrando que a música é do Renan Ribeiro nao dela