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.
Falando De Amor
Ney Matogrosso Lyrics
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Se eu pudesse por um dia
Esse amor essa alegria
Eu te juro te daria
Se pudesse esse amor todo dia
Chega perto Vem sem medo
Vem ouvir esse segredo
Escondido num choro-canção
Se soubesses Como eu gosto
Do teu cheiro teu jeito de flor
Não negavas um beijinho
A quem anda perdido de amor
Chora flauta Chora pinho
Chora eu o teu cantor
Chora manso bem baixinho
Nesse choro falando de amor
Quando passas Tão bonita
Nessa rua banhada de sol
Minha alma segue aflita
E eu me esqueço até do futebol
Vem depressa, vem sem medo
Foi prá ti meu coração
Que eu guardei esse segredo
Escondido num choro-canção
Lá no fundo do meu coração
The lyrics of Ney Matogrosso's song Falando De Amor is a beautiful expression of deep love and passion. The song is about the longing and desire to give all the love and joy one has to their beloved. The singer expresses his willingness to share his love and joy with his beloved if only for a day, promising to give her all the love her heart desires every single day if he could. The song goes on to describe how the singer's heart longs for his beloved, asking her to come closer and listen to the secrets hidden in a song.
The lyrics continue to describe how much the singer loves everything about his beloved, from her scent to her flower-like nature. He asks for a simple kiss from someone lost in love. The singer goes on to describe how the music makes him cry, so beautiful he cannot help the tears. The song goes on to say how he remains deeply in love with his beloved, even forgetting his passion for soccer because she is more important. With the final line, the singer admits to holding these secrets deep in his heart, waiting for his beloved to hear the song he sings.
Overall, Falando De Amor speaks volumes about the passion of love and the longing for someone special who makes life worth living.
Line by Line Meaning
Se eu pudesse por um dia
If I could for just one day
Esse amor essa alegria
Give you this love, this joy
Eu te juro te daria
I swear I would give it to you
Se pudesse esse amor todo dia
If I could give you this love every day
Chega perto Vem sem medo
Come closer, don't be afraid
Chega mais meu coração
Come closer to my heart
Vem ouvir esse segredo
Come hear this secret
Escondido num choro-canção
Hidden in this weeping song
Se soubesses Como eu gosto
If you only knew how much I like
Do teu cheiro teu jeito de flor
Your scent and your flower-like ways
Não negavas um beijinho
You wouldn't refuse a kiss
A quem anda perdido de amor
To someone who's lost in love
Chora flauta Chora pinho
Cry, flute, cry, oboe
Chora eu o teu cantor
And I, your singer, cry
Chora manso bem baixinho
Cry gently, very softly
Nesse choro falando de amor
In this weeping speaking of love
Quando passas Tão bonita
When you pass by so beautiful
Nessa rua banhada de sol
In this street bathed in sunlight
Minha alma segue aflita
My soul follows worried
E eu me esqueço até do futebol
And I forget even about football
Vem depressa, vem sem medo
Come quickly, come without fear
Foi prá ti meu coração
My heart was for you
Que eu guardei esse segredo
That I kept this secret
Escondido num choro-canção
Hidden in this weeping song
Lá no fundo do meu coração
Deep down in my heart
Contributed by Taylor Y. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
ValdBastos95
Fantástica interpretação de uma música maravilhosa do Tom Jobim.
Suely Aparecida
Se eu ficasse próxima ao Ney iria solicitar a ele para cantar está música para ouvir, bela interpretação, maravilhoso❤
Luiz Alberto
Uma declaração de amor
Grace Mottana
Obrigada pela linda música e interpretação!
María José Estrêla
Maravilloso
Felipe Henrique
Liiiiiiiindooooooooo O Ney é mto fera! Adoro esse kra!
RENATO1942
Linda voz. De uma enorme.suavidade e sensibilidade. Grande artista este Ney.
Idelvan Adelino
Inigualável Ney !
maufeitio
Gostei. Muito mesmo!
Olimpio Kuri
Poxa Mano q musica ..... acho q nasci no passado antes da minha mãe kkkk