An uncommon artist with an uncommon sopranino voice, Ney Matogrosso fell in the Brazilian popular music scene like a bomb in the '70s aboard the Secos & Molhados. The end of the group marked the beginning of a fertile and successful solo career in which he began exploring his sensuous and charismatic persona through satiric and ironic repertories. As time passed, he substituted self-contained and deeply sensitive interpretations of classics for the popular and classical Brazilian music. Along with his representative and prolific solo discography, for which he received three platinum and three gold records, Matogrosso recorded in Itália with Astor Piazzola, performed in Argentina, Uruguay, participated in two Montreux Jazz Festivals (Switzerland), and toured Portugal several times. He also performed in Israel and the U.S., but always refused invitations to develop an international career. Matogrosso also worked as an actor in Sonho de Valsa (by Ana Carolina, the director, not the singer/composer) and Caramujo Flor (short subject by Joel Pizzini), and directed shows by RPM, Cazuza, and Simone.
Arriving in Rio de Janeiro in 1966, Matogrosso became a hippie leather artisan and divided his time between Rio, São Paulo, and Brasília, where he was a close friend of singer/composer Luli. Through her he met João Ricardo, who had a vision for a groundbreaking group and was searching for a high-pitched male voice. Invited by Ricardo, Matogrosso moved to São Paulo where he spent one year dedicating himself to exhaustive rehearsals, artisanship, and theater plays. With the explosive success of Secos e Molhados and the group's final dissolution, Matogrosso started his solo career exploring his unusual voice timbre, his mesmerizing scenic persona, and his androgynous visuals, enhanced by innovative and exotic costumes. A second solo album, Água do Céu - Pássaro, was supported by the show Homem de Neanderthal, in 1975, with which Matogrosso opened in Rio de Janeiro, drawing both raves and packed houses. "Barco Negro" and "Homem com H" appeared amongst considerable polemics aroused by the usual conservatives on duty. In that period, he worked with Astor Piazzola in Milan, Italy, where he recorded a double single with the Argentinean composer. A cleaner Matogrosso recorded Bandido in 1976, having his first national hit as a solo artist with "Bandido Corazón," written especially for him by Rita Lee.
De Cigarro Em Cigarro
Ney Matogrosso Lyrics
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Que n??o posso esquecer
Um momento sequer
Vivo pobre de amor
?? espera de algu??m
E esse algu??m n??o me quer
Vejo o tempo passar
O inverno chegar
Se outro amor em meu quarto bater
Eu n??o vou atender
Outra noite sem fim
Aumentou meu sofrer
De cigarro em cigarro
Olhando a fuma??a no ar se perder
Vivo s?? sem voc??
Que n??o posso esquecer
Um momento sequer
Vivo pobre de amor
?? espera de algu??m
E esse algu??m n??o me quer
Vejo o tempo passar
O inverno chegar
S?? n??o vejo voc??
Se outro amor em meu quarto bater
Eu n??o vou atender
Outra noite esperei
Outra noite sem fim
Aumentou meu sofrer
De cigarro em cigarro
Olhando a fuma??a no ar se perder
Vivo s?? sem voc??
Que n??o posso esquecer
Um momento sequer
Vivo pobre de amor
?? espera de algu??m
E esse algu??m n??o me quer
Vejo o tempo passar
O inverno chegar
S?? n??o vejo voc??
Se outro amor em meu quarto bater
Eu n??o vou atender
The lyrics to Ney Matogrosso's song "De Cigarro Em Cigarro" express the pain and longing of someone who is living without their loved one. The singer reveals that they cannot forget their partner for even a single moment and are waiting for someone who does not want them. They see time passing and winter arriving but still, they do not see their partner.
The singer declares they will not answer the door if another love comes to their room, as they want only their original partner. They spend another night waiting, smoking cigarette after cigarette, watching the smoke disappear into the air. The lyrics convey the emptiness and sorrow the singer feels as they wait for a love that may never return.
Line by Line Meaning
Vivo s?? sem voc??
I live alone without you
Que n??o posso esquecer
I cannot forget
Um momento sequer
Not even for a single moment
Vivo pobre de amor
I live poor in love
?? espera de algu??m
Waiting for someone
E esse algu??m n??o me quer
And that someone does not want me
Vejo o tempo passar
I see time passing by
O inverno chegar
Winter arrives
S?? n??o vejo voc??
But I don’t see you
Se outro amor em meu quarto bater
If another love knocks on my door
Eu n??o vou atender
I won’t answer
Outra noite sem fim
Another endless night
Aumentou meu sofrer
Increased my suffering
De cigarro em cigarro
From cigarette to cigarette
Olhando a fuma??a no ar se perder
Watching the smoke disappear into the air
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
Written by: LUIZ BONFA
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