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).
Revelação
Fafá de Belém Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
Faz ressuscitar
Casas mal vividas
Camas repartidas
Faz se revelar
Quando a gente tenta
De toda maneira dele se guardar
Volta a incomodar
Um dia vestido de saudade viva
Faz ressuscitar
Casas mal vividas
Camas repartidas
Faz se revelar
Quando a gente tenta
De toda maneira dele se guardar
Sentimento ilhado, morto, amordaçado
Volta a incomodar
Quando a gente tenta
De toda maneira dele se guardar
Sentimento ilhado, morto, amordaçado
Volta a incomodar
Quando a gente tenta
De toda maneira dele se guardar
Sentimento ilhado, morto, amordaçado
Volta a incomodar
Volta a incomodar
Volta a incomodar
Volta a incomodar
Volta a incomodar
The first verse of the song begins with "Um dia vestido de saudade viva" which roughly translates to "One day dressed in live nostalgia." The image created here is of a person who is overwhelmed with memories of the past, memories that are so vivid that they come to life. This nostalgia is powerful enough to reignite memories of places and people that have long been forgotten. The second part of the verse speaks about the revelations that come from these memories. The memories bring back the past which includes "casas mal vividas" or "poorly lived homes" and "camas repartidas" or "shared beds," revealing the struggles and hardships of people.
The second verse talks about the inability to let go of feelings even when we try to. The lyrics describe this feeling as "Sentimento ilhado, morto, amordaçado," which means "Isolated, dead and gagged feelings." This feeling of being choked with emotions that are trapped inside is not easy to get rid of. The chorus is then repeated several times, with each repetition emphasizing the point that trying to keep these feelings inside only makes them return with greater intensity.
Overall, the song Revelação highlights the power that memories and emotions can have over us. No matter how hard we try to move away from them, they have a way of coming back and making us feel overwhelmed with their intensity. The lyrics urge us to embrace our feelings and nostalgia with open arms, and not try to repress them. The revelations that come from accepting our past can help us gain new perspectives and insight into ourselves and our lives.
Line by Line Meaning
Um dia vestido de saudade viva
At some point, nostalgia becomes so vivid that it resuscitates memories of poorly lived houses and shared beds, and reveals them.
Faz ressuscitar
It brings them back to life.
Casas mal vividas
Houses where life was not lived to the fullest.
Camas repartidas
Beds that were shared.
Faz se revelar
It reveals them, bringing them to light.
Quando a gente tenta
When we try
De toda maneira dele se guardar
To hold back this feeling in every possible way
Sentimento ilhado, morto, amordaçado
Isolated, dead and muted emotions
Volta a incomodar
They start bothering us again.
Volta a incomodar
They start bothering us again.
Volta a incomodar
They start bothering us again.
Volta a incomodar
They start bothering us again.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Clesio De Souza Ferreira, Clodomir Souza Ferreira
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Canal Dazirmã
Ouvi na novela todas as flores, não conhecia essa versão.
Fafá consegue deixar tudo mais belo e intenso.
Danilo Nascimento
muito verdade. Fafá é a maior!
PEDRO HENRIQUE
Eu vim pela novela também kkk
Tereza Cristina Tiburcio
Eu também....em Todas as Flores, arrebentando o coração 💓
Cláudio Rafael
Obrigado todas as flores por me apresentar essa versão maravilhosa ❤❤❤
gustavo bereohff
Que versão linda,vi em todas as flores! 💛🗣️
Jeff
Fico cheio de esperança ao ouvir uma interpretação repleta de talento como essa, pois isso me faz perceber que a música brasileira não está totalmente entregue aos mandos do mercado e do dinheiro. Um arranjo muito bem trabalhado, uma interpretação genuína de uma canção que já era um clássico na voz de Fagner, além de uma voz experiente, segura e, sobretudo, autêntica. Fafá carrega os títulos de cantora e artista com muito merecimento. Todos os aplausos para essa grande intérprete! ❤️🎵🎙️😊👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Paulo Oliveira
Em Todas as Flores
Eis que Ela surge com essa linda versão
Linnnndissima
ALEXANDRE CINCINATO
Interpretação de grande dama da Música Brasileira!
Danilo Nascimento
a maior