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1. A Brazilian MPB singer and songwriter
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1. Maysa Figueira Monjardim Matarazzo (June 6, 1936, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – January 22, 1977, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), better known as Maysa Matarazzo or simply Maysa, was a Brazilian singer, songwriter and actress, being one of the first female songwriters of Brazil and one of the precursors of the genre samba-canção. She had great success in the 1950s and 1960s, known especially for her pessimistic, hopeless, melancholic and dramatic lyrics and interpretations, very characteristic of her image and career. She is also associated with bossa nova music, but is widely known as a torch song (música de fossa) interpreter.
Maysa's grandfather was Alfeu Adolfo Monjardim de Andrade e Almeida, the 1st Baron of Monjardim, and wife Laurinda Luísa Pinto Pereira. Maysa showed talent at a young age and by twelve had written a samba song, which later became a hit from her first album. She married André Matarazzo Filho, a member of a wealthy and traditional São Paulo family in 1954 at the age of 18 and two years later had a son, Jayme Monjardim. Jayme would later be known as a television director. In the late 1950s she formed a successful bossa nova group and also did television work relying on her magnificent pair of gorgeous green eyes.
Her tour to Buenos Aires first projected bossa nova beyond Brazil's borders but was not without controversy. The tour was a great success and extended to Chile and Uruguay, but Maysa had an affair with the show's producer, Ronaldo Bôscoli, a journalist and composer linked romantically to bossa nova's muse Nara Leão. This led not only to a break between Nara and Ronaldo, but also to a fracture in the bossa nova movement. Nara supported Carlos Lyra's nationalist vertent of the bossa nova movement, to the detriment of Boscoli's more orthodox approach, emphasizing form rather than content in bossa nova compositions. Nara also began courting older composers of traditional sambas, such as morro composers Zé Kéti and Cartola. She also became an idol of the protest song genre against the military dictatorship in Brazil. Nara's pocket show "Opinião" marked the start of a series of protest musical shows, which both in Rio and São Paulo distracted the public from the main themes of "the love, the smile and the flower", typical of the bossa nova years. So Maysa became "persona non grata" both to the bossa-novistas and the protest singers and her career faltered. She reacted by marrying Spaniard music producer Miguel Anzana, with whom she moved to Spain and began a series of presentations not only in Spain, but also Portugal, Italy and France.
Her personal life, already tumultuous, became even more chaotic leading to her being called "the Janis Joplin of Bossa Nova". But she later made a come back with one of the first notable shows in Rio's "Canecão" venue, the equivalent of Carnegie Hall in NYC. Maysa also played the Olympia in Paris to a full house twice and enjoyed considerable success in Europe. She is still considered the best Brazilian "torch song" (fossa) musician, rivaled only perhaps by Nora Ney as interpreter and Dolores Duran as composer. Upon her return to Brazil, Maysa continued to blend her old unique "broken love affair" trademarks with the more current festival style and occasional bossa nova hits. In the 1970s Maysa tapped her actress side and acted on a few telenovelas in Brazil. She also composed the soundtrack for a Rede Globo telenova just as the TV network became the powerhouse of Brazilian soap operas. She appeared more in peace with herself in latter years but died in a car crash in 1977, on the Rio-Niterói bridge, which connects the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói over the Guanabara Bay.
In January 2009, 32 years after her death, a miniseries about her life was broadcast on Brazilian television and spanned two new books about one of Brazil's most charismatic divas. Maysa's style influenced the following generations of Brazilian female singers and composers, with great ascendancy in the works of Angela Ro Ro, Simone, Cazuza, Leila Pinheiro and Fafá de Belém.
2. Maysa Leak (born August 17, 1966) is an American jazz singer better known by her mononym Maysa. She is well known by fans of smooth jazz both for her solo work and for her work with the British band Incognito.
After receiving her degree from Morgan State University, Maysa headed to Southern California to perform with Stevie Wonder’s female backup group Wonderlove, While with Wonder, Maysa was a vocalist on the Jungle Fever soundtrack and performed on numerous television shows including The Arsenio Hall Show, Oprah and The Tonight Show.
It was during an over-the-telephone audition in the early 90s, that Maysa become a member of the acclaimed British jazz/funk/R&B band Incognito and in 1992 she relocated to London and recorded Tribes, Vibes & Scribes, featuring the hit single "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing." Since then, Maysa has appeared on over seven Incognito recordings.
Maysa recorded her self-titled debut in 1995, followed by her second album All My Life in 2000, Out of The Blue in 2002, Smooth Sailing in 2004, Sweet Classic Soul in 2006, and now Feel The Fire, 2007. In 2008, Metamorphosis peaked at No.1 on Billboard's Top Contemporary Jazz top 100 chart and no.13 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In 2010, "A Woman in Love", Maysa 8th Solo cd debuted at No.1 on the Contemporary Jazz Charts. Maysa's 9th solo album,Motions of Love, released in November 2011, debuted at No. 1 on Billboards Contemporary Jazz Charts and Number 7 on the R&B charts.
Maysa has also collaborated with well-known jazz performers like Gerald Veasley, Rick Braun, Will Downing, Jason Miles' Soul Summit, Rhythm Logic, Jonathan Butler and Pieces of a Dream.
In 2009, Maysa won the very first new Soul Train Award named for the brand's new owners, CENTRIC. The Cenric Award : Soul Approved /Underground.
Maysa Leak was a spokesperson for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a disease that can be fatal to premature babies. She appears in RSV PSA commercials, with her son Jazz, sponsored for the March of Dimes.
In 2013, Maysa received her first Grammy nomination in the "Best Traditional R&B Performance" award category for the song "Quiet Fire" from her album Blue Velvet Soul.
Fim de Noite
Maysa Lyrics
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Nossa estrela foi embora.
Seu olhar me diz agora.
Que eu vá embora também.
Num fim de noite.
Nossas mãos se separaram.
Nossos rumos se trocaram.
Nunca mais eu vi você.
Toda noite, eu sofri.
Numa estrela da manhã, eu me perdi.
E em cada dia.
Toda noite, eu sofri.
Numa estrela da manhã, eu me perdi.
The lyrics of Maysa's song Fim de Noite, which translates to "End of the Night" in English, tell a story of a couple whose time together has come to an end. The singer describes how their star has left them, and how they can see in their lover's eyes that it's time for them to leave as well. The end of the night marks a separation between the two, and the singer shares their sadness at the realization that they may never see their lover again. The pain of this separation is described as a daily struggle, with each night bringing more heartache than the last.
The song conveys a sense of longing and nostalgia for what once was, and how something so perfect can come to a sudden end. The lines "Nossas mãos se separaram / Nossos rumos se trocaram" which mean "Our hands were separated / Our paths were exchanged," highlight the suddenness of the situation - how, in the blink of an eye, the two were separated and sent on different paths. The lyrics also suggest that the singer is lost without their lover, using the metaphor of a morning star, which is only visible for a short time before disappearing, to express their feelings of being adrift and alone.
Overall, Maysa's Fim de Noite is a poignant song about lost love and the pain of separation. The lyrics are simple yet effective, using strong imagery to convey the singer's feelings of loss and longing.
Line by Line Meaning
É fim de noite.
It's the end of the night.
Nossa estrela foi embora.
Our star has gone away.
Seu olhar me diz agora.
Your look now tells me.
Que eu vá embora também.
That I should leave too.
Num fim de noite.
At the end of the night.
Nossas mãos se separaram.
Our hands separated.
Nossos rumos se trocaram.
Our paths changed.
Nunca mais eu vi você.
I never saw you again.
E em cada dia.
And every day.
Toda noite, eu sofri.
Every night, I suffered.
Numa estrela da manhã, eu me perdi.
In a morning star, I got lost.
E em cada dia.
And every day.
Toda noite, eu sofri.
Every night, I suffered.
Numa estrela da manhã, eu me perdi.
In a morning star, I got lost.
Writer(s): chico feitosa, ronaldo bôscoli
Contributed by Avery B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Yvany Gurgel do Amaral
Maysa foi a melhor cantora brasileira de todos os tempos... insubstituível!
Antonio Silva
É uma pena que os cantores ou cantoras de hoje não se lembrem de gravar obras-primas como esta....... assim sendo, o que nos resta é recordar o que passou e que, infelizmente, não volta mais......
Vania Menghi
Lindo - a pureza de sua voz, combina exatamente com o delicado arranjo.
Julián Augusto Paz
La dulzura que Maysa le daba a sus interpretaciones es incomparable. Brasil se distinguió siempre por sus excelentes músicos pero las interpretaciones de Maysa y los arreglos orquestales de quienes la acompañaban siguen siendo excepcionales. Un fanático.
marcelo montoto
Es lógico que sea fanático de Maysa porque fue la cantante más
grande de Brasil y del Mundo entero. Todos los demás fueron su sombra. Nadie le llegó a la suela de los zapatos. Incluso para mi estuvo un escalón por encima de Edith Piaf.
Marcelo Xavier
Essa gravação da Maysa é definitiva
Alex Rodrigo
é loucura dizer que o arranjo ficou exagerado. Ficou excelente a harmonia da voz da grande Maysa com toda orquestra. Naquele tempo se fazia musica com seriedade, respeito e planejamento. Tudo saia perfeito na voz dessa diva.
descsnse em paz que a sua musica seja eterna
voz de solidão mas com luz própria.
Simplesmente Eduardo
nasci 10 anos após a morte de Maysa, mas sou muito ligado a ela é uma coisa espiritual.
Ney Teixeira
Muita ternura na música e interpretação da saudosa Maysa. Escuto sempre esta música. Ney