In 1976, Fafá released her first LP, Tamba-Tajá. Her singing seduced even the demolishing critic of Brazilian music from Jornal do Brasil, the feared José Ramos Tinhorão, who poured over her praises, pointing her out as a singer destined to figure in the first team of the current generation of great Brazilian interpreters. The following album, Água (1977) confirmed all predictions: it reached about 100 thousand copies sold.
Although she never thought of becoming a professional singer, since she was 9 years old, Fafá de Belém was an attraction at parties promoted by her family or at friends' houses. In spite of being a little girl, she interpreted as a grown-up "Ouça", a hit by Maysa, or "Eu e a Brisa", by Johnny Half. She was a girl who, like her generation, loved the Beatles, was a fan of Roberto Carlos and the Jovem Guarda group, but was also fascinated by jazz, classical music, and got emotional listening to the great radio singers, like Cauby Peixoto, Angela Maria, Núbia Lafayette and Orlando Silva, "People with a dagger in their chests", who she likes to use as models to interpret.
"Today I see myself as a singer of the great loves, of the losses and reunions. If the music doesn't give me goose bumps, I won't record it. If I am not a character in the lyrics, I cannot interpret. I am a dramatist, a passionate person.", she usually affirms, between pleasant laughs, but from the bottom of her heart, the great interpreter of Nuvem de Lágrimas, the first country song to be played on FM's in Rio de Janeiro.
The wide range of her musical background is reflected in the selection of her repertoire. She recorded everything, without prejudice. Regional music, popular song pearls, such as "Que Queres Tu de Mim", by Evaldo Gouveia and Jair Amorim, or "Você Vai Gostar (Casinha Branca)" by Elpídio dos Santos. Rock, boleros, Caribbean rhythms, guarânias, afoxé, lambadas, sambas-canções, compositions by the great names of MPB, marcha-rancho, sertanejo, and many other rhythms. Not to mention the polemic presentation that the Muse of "Diretas Já" (a past popular political movement that had as its objective the resumption of direct elections for the office of President of the Republic in Brazil, during the Brazilian military dictatorship) gave to the National Anthem, contested by the courts and applauded by the audience.
It was from her decision to turn the tables and let her heart speak louder that Fafá touched deep into the Brazilian soul. With the determination that characterizes her, the years on the road, a strong intuition and the absolute success of songs handpicked by the singer herself at certain moments in her life, like "Bilhete", by Ivan Lins and Victor Martins, that made her break the silence of a year in 1982. Or "Memórias", by Leonardo, popular composer from Pernambuco, responsible for the sale of half a million copies (Platinum Disc) of the album Atrevida (1986), Fafá reached, then, the peak of her career, especially as a romantic singer.
An amazing trajectory, but nothing that surprises those who know her well and her apparent contradictions. It was not for nothing that she interpreted, with such emotion and propriety, the verses of one of the biggest hits of her career, "Dentro de Mim Mora Um Anjo", by Suely Costa and Cacaso: "Who sees me singing like this, doesn't know anything about me...". This is one of the greatest truths about Fafá de Belém, who knows exactly what she wants and what she is capable of.
"I have always done my own thing, lived my own life, fought hard and punched a lot on a knife's blade to get to where I am. It is the people who teach the artist what he has to sing, and not the artist who has to teach the people what they have to listen to.", often repeats Fafá.
Fafá became a national brand. A national brand of joy, with that sincerely loud laugh that can lift the spirits of anyone. A national trademark of health, the beautiful Brazilian woman who even baptized the lanterns of the old VW Beetle, another popular passion. A national symbol of freedom, the symbol of a political movement that moved millions of Brazilians with her interpretation of the national anthem.
This is Fafá de Belém. Or even better: Fafá do Mundo (Fafá of the World).
Abandonada
Fafá de Belém Lyrics
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Tenho tentado te esquecer
No fim da tarde, uma paixão
No fim da noite, uma ilusão
No fim de tudo, a solidão
Apaixonada por você
Tenho tentado não sofrer
Rindo em novas companhias
E chorando por você
Mas você não vem
Nem leva com você
Toda essa saudade
Nem sei mais de mim
Onde vou assim
Fugindo da verdade?
Abandonada por você
Apaixonada por você
Sem outro porto ou outro cais
Sobrevivendo aos temporais
Essa paixão ainda me guia
Abandonada por você
Apaixonada por você
Eu vejo o vento te levar
Mas tenho estrelas pra sonhar
E ainda te espero todo dia
Mas você não vem
leva com você
Toda essa saudade
Nem sei mais de mim
Onde vou assim
Fugindo da verdade?
Abandonada por você
Apaixonada por você
Sem outro porto ou outro cais
Sobrevivendo aos temporais
Essa paixão ainda me guia
Abandonada por você
Apaixonada por você
Eu vejo o vento te levar
Mas tenho estrelas pra sonhar
E ainda te espero todo dia
Oh oh oh
The song "Abandonada" by Fafá de Belém tells the story of a person who feels abandoned and deeply in love with someone who is no longer by their side. The lyrics express the struggle of trying to forget this person, but ultimately failing as the feeling of loneliness remains. The singer tries to distract themselves by reading old poems and finding new company, but they still end up crying over this lost love. Despite the pain and longing, they can't help but continue to wait for this person every day, even though they know deep down that it may be futile.
The lyrics beautifully capture the bittersweet emotions of unrequited love and the desperation that comes with it. It portrays the inner conflict between holding onto hope and facing the reality of the situation. The repetition of the line "Mas você não vem" (But you don't come) emphasizes the constant disappointment and longing that the singer feels.
Overall, "Abandonada" is a poignant reflection on the complexities of love, heartbreak, and the struggle to move on from a lost relationship.
Line by Line Meaning
Abandonada por você
Left behind by you
Tenho tentado te esquecer
I have been trying to forget you
No fim da tarde, uma paixão
At the end of the afternoon, a passion
No fim da noite, uma ilusão
At the end of the night, an illusion
No fim de tudo, a solidão
At the end of it all, loneliness
Apaixonada por você
In love with you
Tenho tentado não sofrer
I have been trying not to suffer
Lendo antigas poesias
Reading old poems
Rindo em novas companhias
Laughing in new company
E chorando por você
And crying for you
Mas você não vem
But you don't come
Nem leva com você
Nor take with you
Toda essa saudade
All this longing
Nem sei mais de mim
I don't know myself anymore
Onde vou assim
Where am I going like this
Fugindo da verdade?
Running away from the truth?
Sem outro porto ou outro cais
Without another port or another dock
Sobrevivendo aos temporais
Surviving the storms
Essa paixão ainda me guia
This passion still guides me
Eu vejo o vento te levar
I see the wind taking you away
Mas tenho estrelas pra sonhar
But I have stars to dream of
E ainda te espero todo dia
And I still wait for you every day
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Paulo Sergio Kostenb Valle, Mihail Plopschi, Ivanilton De Souza Lima, Paulo Sergio Kostenbader Valle
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@pedroalencar8770
Abandonada por você
Tenho tentado te esquecer
No fim da tarde uma paixão
No fim da noite uma ilusão
No fim de tudo, a solidão...
Apaixonada por você
Tenho tentado não sofrer
Lendo antigas poesias
Rindo em novas companhias
E chorando por você...
Mas você não vem
Nem leva com você
Toda essa saudade
Nem sei mais de mim
Onde vou assim,
Fugindo da verdade?
Abandonada por você
Apaixonada por você
Sem outro porto ou outro cais
Sobrevivendo aos temporais
Essa paixão ainda me guia...
Abandonada por você
Apaixonada por você
Eu vejo o vento te levar
Mas tenho estrelas prá sonhar
E ainda te espero todo dia...
Mas você não vem
Nem leva com você
Toda essa saudade
Nem sei mais de mim
Onde vou assim,
Fugindo da verdade?
Abandonada por você
Apaixonada por você
Sem outro porto ou outro cais
Sobrevivendo aos temporais
Essa paixão ainda me guia...
Abandonada por você
Apaixonada por você
Eu vejo o vento te levar
Mas tenho estrelas prá sonhar
E ainda te espero todo dia...
Fafá de Belém - Abandonada
@cris0910able
Isto é que é sofrência de verdade. Falando de amor, e não de se esbaldar na cerveja
@cris0910able
@Silvio Silva sim
@adrianasousadeoliveira6605
Falou tudo!
@reginabortoletto4162
❤️🎶🌹
@darlantorres9445
Ôhô! Se é... excelente colocação!
@veraaliceprobioticosdicas
Gosto demais dessas sofrencias
@jefflima1837
Isso que é uma cantora rapaz! Tem voz, tem tom, tem técnica, tem o dom!
@MariaJose-kj9iv
Verdade. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@thaisecristinareis7291
👏💕👏💕👏💕👏💕👏💕🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
@waldeciraraujo9852
E é bonita !!!!