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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.
Você e Eu
Maysa Lyrics
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E me pedir e me rogar
E podem mesmo falar mal
Ficar de mal que não faz mal
Podem preparar
Milhões de festas ao luar
Que eu não vou ir
Melhor nem pedir
E também podem me obrigar
Até sorrir, até chorar
e podem mesmo imaginar
O que melhor lhes parecer
Podem espalhar
Que eu estou cansada de viver
E que é uma pena
Para quem me conheceu
Eu sou mais você
E... eu
interpreted the lyrics of "Você e Eu" by Maysa as follows:
The song starts with Maysa stating that people can call her, ask her, beg her, or even speak badly of her, but none of it would affect her since she has made a decision that regardless of what people say or do, she is not going to attend any parties held under the moonlight where people are expected to have fun. She says that people can try to convince her as much as they want, but she is firm in her decision. Moreover, Maysa adds that people can even force her to smile or cry, but it would not change anything.
Towards the end of the song, Maysa acknowledges that people can speak ill of her by saying that they can spread rumors about her and claim that she is tired of living, but she is okay with it. In fact, it is pitiful for those who knew her because she is not interested in living that kind of life. Instead, she affirms that she belongs to someone special and ends the song by saying:
"I am more with you
And... I"
Overall, "Você e Eu" seems to be a song about standing firm in one's beliefs and not giving in to peer pressure or societal expectations. Maysa's lyrics indicate that she has found someone special who brings fulfillment to her life, and nothing else matters.
Line by Line Meaning
Podem me chamar
You can call me
E me pedir e me rogar
And ask and beg for me
E podem mesmo falar mal
And even speak badly of me
Ficar de mal que não faz mal
But holding a grudge doesn't harm me
Podem preparar
You can prepare
Milhões de festas ao luar
Millions of moonlit parties
Que eu não vou ir
But I'm not going
Melhor nem pedir
It's better not to ask
Eu não vou ir, não quero ir
I'm not going, I don't want to
E também podem me obrigar
And you can even force me
Até sorrir, até chorar
Even to smile or cry
E podem mesmo imaginar
And you can even imagine
O que melhor lhes parecer
Whatever suits you best
Podem espalhar
You can spread
Que eu estou cansada de viver
That I'm tired of living
E que é uma pena
And it's a pity
Para quem me conheceu
For those who have known me
Eu sou mais você
I am more you
E... eu
And... me
Writer(s): VINICIUS DE MORAES, CARLOS LYRA
Contributed by Jack D. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
David Traversa
Una DIVA absoluta, representando Brasil con un talento y una voz hipnotizantes, por fortuna acompañada por un combo de músicos excepcionales, en aquellos tiempos y en éstos, que la seguimos escuchando en trance.
Freddy Vaccarezza
Que bien que hace leer comentarios sabios como el tuyo, es todo eso exactamente lo que siento , lo has descripto maravillosamente bien con una capacidad de síntesis m que por ej. pocas persona , me incluyo no tienen, pra nada obsecuente, simplemente real y emoiciona..gracias !!
Aralis Pelaez
Amo esta música 💋❤
Rafa Gazetta
eu tbm adoro essa música.... :)
marcelo montoto
Maysa: la voz más maravillosa de Brasil y del Mundo entero. Fue
una artista única, inmensa e irrepetible. Nadie le llegó a la suela
de los zapatos. Incluso Edith Piaf y Amalia Rodriguez que fueron
enormes no tuvieron los quilates de Maysa. El mejor regalo que
Brasil dio al mundo. Esta música gravada hace 60 años parece
gravada ayer.
Tuninho Januario Neto
Olhem,meus amigos,inclusive,eu gosto muito dessa música,na parte da Bossa Nova!
joao marcelo
Isso que é música um encanto
olney figueiredo
Maysa e Tamba Trio, que beleza!!!
Antonio Fernandes de Queiroga
Embora a versão com João Gilberto seja imbatível, mas essa ficou muito boa.
Miro Barros
Diva 🎼🎼🎼🎼