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1. A Brazilian MPB singer and s… Read Full Bio ↴There are two artists who use this name:
1. A Brazilian MPB singer and songwriter
2. A Grammy-nominated American jazz singer
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.
1. A Brazilian MPB singer and s… Read Full Bio ↴There are two artists who use this name:
1. A Brazilian MPB singer and songwriter
2. A Grammy-nominated American jazz singer
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.
Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você
Maysa Lyrics
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Vai sua vida, seu caminho й de paz e amor
A sua vida й uma linda canзгo de amor
Abre os seus braзos e canta a ъltima esperanзa
A esperanзa divina de amar em paz
Se todos fossem iguais a vocк
Que maravilha viver
Uma canзгo pelo ar
Uma mulher a cantar
Uma cidade a cantar
A sorrir, a cantar, a pedir
A beleza de amar
Como o sol, como a flor, como a luz
Amar sem mentir, nem sofrer
Existiria a verdade, verdade que ninguйm vк
Se todos fossem no mundo iguais a vocк
Uma cidade a cantar
A sorrir, a cantar, a pedir
A beleza de amar
Como o sol, como a flor, como a luz
Amar sem mentir, nem sofrer
Existiria a verdade, verdade que ninguйm vк
Se todos fossem no mundo iguais a vocк
A sua vida й uma linda canзгo de amor
Abre os seus braзos e canta a ъltima esperanзa
A esperanзa divina de amar em paz
Se todos fossem iguais a vocк
Que maravilha viver
Uma canзгo pelo ar
Uma cidade a cantar
A sorrir, a cantar, a pedir
A beleza de amar
Como o sol, como a flor, como a luz
Amar sem mentir, nem sofrer
Existiria a verdade, verdade que ninguйm vк
Se todos fossem no mundo iguais a vocк
Uma cidade a cantar
A sorrir, a cantar, a pedir
A beleza de amar
Como o sol, como a flor, como a luz
Amar sem mentir, nem sofrer
Existiria a verdade, verdade que ninguйm vк
Se todos fossem no mundo iguais a vocк
The lyrics to Maysa's "Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Voc" speak to the beauty and hope that exist in a world where everyone is like the person being sung to. The singer encourages this person, who is living a life of peace and love, to continue on their path and sing their beautiful song of love. The lyrics express a desire for others to be like this person, so that the world could be filled with the beauty of love and happiness.
The chorus of the song reflects this desire for everyone to be like the person being sung to. The singer imagines a world where everyone is like this person, and they describe it as a wonderful place to live. The lyrics speak to the power that one person can have in creating a positive change in the world, and how that can inspire others to do the same.
Overall, the song is a beautiful message about the power of love and the hope for a world where everyone can live in peace and harmony.
Line by Line Meaning
Vai sua vida, seu caminho é de paz e amor
Go on with your life, your path is filled with peace and love
A sua vida é uma linda canção de amor
Your life is a beautiful love song
Abre os seus braços e canta a última esperança
Open your arms and sing the last hope
A esperança divina de amar em paz
The divine hope to love peacefully
Se todos fossem iguais a você
If everyone was like you
Que maravilha viver
What a wonderful life it would be
Uma canção pelo ar
A song in the air
Uma mulher a cantar
A woman singing
Uma cidade a cantar
A city singing
A sorrir, a cantar, a pedir
Smiling, singing, asking
A beleza de amar
The beauty of love
Como o sol, como a flor, como a luz
Like the sun, like the flower, like the light
Amar sem mentir, nem sofrer
To love without lying or suffering
Existiria a verdade, verdade que ninguém vê
Truth would exist, a truth that nobody sees
Se todos fossem no mundo iguais a você
If everyone in the world was like you
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@paulinhobcorrea4877
Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você
#Maysa
Vai sua vida, seu caminho é de paz e amor
A sua vida é uma linda canção de amor
Abre os seus braços e canta a última esperança
A esperança divina de amar em paz
Se todos fossem iguais a você
Que maravilha viver
Uma canção pelo ar
Uma mulher a cantar
Uma cidade a cantar
A sorrir, a cantar, a pedir
A beleza de amar
Como o sol, como a flor, como a luz
Amar sem mentir, nem sofrer
Existiria a verdade, verdade que ninguém vê
Se todos fossem no mundo iguais a você
Uma cidade a cantar
A sorrir, a cantar, a pedir
A beleza de amar
Como o sol, como a flor, como a luz
Amar sem mentir, nem sofrer
Existiria a verdade, verdade que ninguém vê
Se todos fossem no mundo iguais a você
@iolandamarino295
A única cantora que existiu que sabia cantar interpretar emoçoes romantismo sonoridade emocional eterna jamais esquecerei
@edmiltonoliveira2980
Tenho 18 anos e prefiro ouvir maysa do que esses cantores modinhas de hoje em dia
@CristianoBarcelos998
Nasci em 1982, sou grato a Deus por isso.
Mais queria tanto ter minha idade no momento em que essa mulher fazia sucesso.
Chorei de ver o quanto que os cantores se expressavam na música. Maysa serás sempre eterna
@wanessamagali8307
Eu também sou de 82 , como eu gostaria ter a oportunidade de acistir um show dela. Eu iria chorar o show todo, as músicas dela me tocam muito todas as vezes que ouso é impossível não se emocionar.
@rosangelafontesmaia6320
Quando eu vi em 1970 chegar aonde eu trabalhava no hosp, ZONA SUL CHEGAR A VÍTIMA NO MESMO DIA E NA MESMA MADRUGADA E IGUAL CHEGOU A FILHA DE DEUS MAISA.! MEU JESUS CRISTO PIEDADE. EU FUI PEITO PRA LEVAR PRO NECROTÉRIO! QUE BOM SERÁ QUE CHEGOU A MINHA VEZ😇🤗👼😢😢😢😢📿📿📿
@relicarioencantado_vlog
Para mim esta é a interpretação mais bela e tocante desta música...eterna Maysa...
@3paulo59
Se todos fossem iguais a você...que maravilha viver. Maysa, maravilhosa inimitável !!
@marciolomelino6910
Inesquecível! Maysa! 45 anos de saudade!
@insidesp2325
Ela morreu no msm ano do Elvis Presley 77
@guilhermestelari8031
Maysa é uma limpeza de ouvidos ❤