Maria Rita Mariano (best known as MARIA RITA) is a Brazilian singer, daught… Read Full Bio ↴Maria Rita Mariano (best known as MARIA RITA) is a Brazilian singer, daughter of famed pianist/arranger César Camargo Mariano and the late Brazilian singer legend Elis Regina. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on September 9, 1977. Maria Rita graduated in Latin American studies and communications in New York University, and worked as a journalist in a magazine for teenagers.
Maria Rita began to sing professionally aged 24, even though she began to sing since she was 14. Her first CD, 'Maria Rita', launched her career, with the first cut on her first album, "A Festa (The Party)", written by Milton Nascimento, a Brazilian singer-songwriter. The CD was platinum and was a hit worldwide. After that album she became an international star. Her mother's career as a renowned singer had a major influence in Maria Rita's life as a singer; She was always conscious of being the single daughter of a great singer. Despite having her mother's vocal DNA, Maria Rita developed her own jazzy vocal style, influenced by singers, like among others, Ella Fitzgerald. She won the 2004 Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist in the General Area. Her debut album, 'Maria Rita', won the Best MPB (Popular Brasilian Music) Album award of that year. Rita is pronounced "HEE-taaa".

Sobre Todas as Coisas
Maria Rita Lyrics

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Pelo amor de Deus
Não vê que isso é pecado, desprezar quem lhe quer bem
Não vê que Deus até fica zangado vendo alguém
Abandonado pelo amor de Deus

Ao Nosso Senhor
Pergunte se Ele produziu nas trevas o esplendor
Se tudo foi criado - o macho, a fêmea, o bicho, a flor

Criado pra adorar o Criador

E se o Criador
Inventou a criatura por favor
Se do barro fez alguém com tanto amor
Para amar Nosso Senhor

Não, Nosso Senhor
Não há de ter lançado em movimento terra e céu
Estrelas percorrendo o firmamento em carrossel
Pra circular em torno ao Criador

Ou será que o Deus
Que criou nosso desejo é tão cruel
Mostra os vales onde jorra o leite e o mel
E esses vales são de Deus
Pelo amor de Deus
Não vê que isso é pecado, desprezar quem lhe quer bem

Não vê que Deus até fica zangado vendo alguém
Abandonado pelo amor de Deus

Overall Meaning

The song "Sobre Todas as Coisas" by Maria Rita speaks about the importance of love and how it should never be taken for granted. The lyrics beg the listener to consider the value of loving someone, and to realize that it's a sin to ignore someone who loves you. The song then suggests that God would be angry if He saw anyone abandoned by love. The second verse challenges the notion that God created everything, man, woman, animal and flower, to adore Him. The verse suggests that perhaps God created humans simply for the purpose of loving and being loved.

The third verse questions whether God would create the universe and all its wonders to simply revolve around Him. It also asks whether the same God, who created human desires, could be so cruel as to deny His followers the very thing that He Himself created. The song concludes with a plea to not ignore those who love you, for it is a sin to do so and it can lead to being abandoned by God's love as well.

Line by Line Meaning

Pelo amor de Deus
For the love of God

Não vê que isso é pecado, desprezar quem lhe quer bem
Don't you see that it's a sin to disregard those who care for you

Não vê que Deus até fica zangado vendo alguém
Can't you see that even God gets angry when someone

Abandonado pelo amor de Deus
Is abandoned by the love of God

Ao Nosso Senhor
To our Lord

Pergunte se Ele produziu nas trevas o esplendor
Ask if He created splendor in the darkness

Se tudo foi criado - o macho, a fêmea, o bicho, a flor
If everything was created - male, female, animals, flowers

Criado pra adorar o Criador
Created to worship the Creator

E se o Criador
And if the Creator

Inventou a criatura por favor
Created the creature by favor

Se do barro fez alguém com tanto amor
If He made someone out of mud with so much love