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.
Viajante
Ney Matogrosso Lyrics
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Pela tua casa
Pássaro sem asa, rei da covardia
E se guardo tanto essas emoções nessa caldeira fria
É que arde o medo onde o amor ardia
Mansidão no peito trazendo o respeito
Que eu queria tanto derrubar de vez
Pra ser seu talvez, pra ser seu talvez
Mas o viajante é talvez covarde
Ou talvez seja tarde
Pra gritar que arde no maior ardor
A paixão contida, retraída e nua
Correndo na sala ao te ver deitada
Ao te ver calada
Ao te ver cansada
Ao te ver no are
Talvez esperando desse viajante
Algo que ele espera também receber
E quebrar as cercas com que insistimos
Em nos defender
The lyrics of Ney Matogrosso's song 'Viajante' express the emotions of a traveler who is visiting someone's house and is feeling foolish and vulnerable. The person is compared to a bird without wings, emphasizing their inability to take control of the situation or express their feelings with confidence. They are confined by fear and are unable to reveal their true emotions, even though they wish to do so. The person's heart is filled with gentleness, but they feel the need to suppress it to fit in and gain respect or love. The traveler is frustrated with their inability to break free from their emotional limitations and fears to express their love and passion.
The traveler realizes that they might be seen as a coward for their inability to be open and honest with the person they are visiting. They may even consider it too late to speak up and proclaim their deepest desires. The singer of the song is struggling with contained passion, and although they try to hide it, their emotions eventually bubble up to the surface. The traveler sees the person that they are visiting as if they were on fire, with a burning passion that they are afraid to reveal. They long to express their feelings but feel trapped by their emotional barriers, and they are waiting for something from the other person that they too crave - a desire to break the barriers that prevent them from expressing their feelings.
Line by Line Meaning
Eu me sinto tolo como um viajante Pela tua casa
I feel foolish like a traveler in your home
Pássaro sem asa, rei da covardia
Bird without wings, king of cowardice
E se guardo tanto essas emoções nessa caldeira fria É que arde o medo onde o amor ardia
And if I keep these emotions inside this cold pot, it's because fear burns where love used to burn
Mansidão no peito trazendo o respeito Que eu queria tanto derrubar de vez Pra ser seu talvez, pra ser seu talvez
Meekness in my heart bringing the respect that I wanted to demolish once and for all, to maybe be yours
Mas o viajante é talvez covarde Ou talvez seja tarde Pra gritar que arde no maior ardor
But the traveler is perhaps cowardly or maybe it's too late to shout that the burning passion is too intense
A paixão contida, retraída e nua Correndo na sala ao te ver deitada Ao te ver calada Ao te ver cansada Ao te ver no are
The contained, restrained and naked passion running in the living room when I see you lying down, when I see you quiet, when I see you tired, when I see you in the sand
Talvez esperando desse viajante Algo que ele espera também receber E quebrar as cercas com que insistimos Em nos defender
Maybe waiting for this traveler to give something that he also hopes to receive and break the fences with which we insist on defending ourselves
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: MARIA THEREZA DE MENEZES TINOCO
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@Mauro_B._Vieira.
Tão masculina a letra! Compositora: Maria Thereza De Menezes Tinoco. Grande realização!
Eu me sinto tolo como um viajante
Pela tua casa
Pássaro sem asa, rei da covardia
E se guardo tanto essas emoções nessa caldeira fria
É que arde o medo onde o amor ardia
Mansidão no peito trazendo o respeito
Que eu queria tanto derrubar de vez
Pra ser seu talvez, pra ser seu talvez
Mas o viajante é talvez covarde
Ou talvez seja tarde
Pra gritar que arde no maior ardor
A paixão contida, retraída e nua
Correndo na sala ao te ver deitada
Ao te ver calada
Ao te ver cansada
Ao te ver no are
Talvez esperando desse viajante
Algo que ele espera também receber
E quebrar as cercas com que insistimos
Em nos defender
@valterlocutor
Isso não é uma musica, isso é uma exposição da alma!
@luisabelmont3025
Sim concordo com vc
@franciscolaerciodesouzaopr8513
Essa inesquecível música gravada por Ney Matogrosso em 1981 é um verdadeiro hino para todos os tímidos .
@claytonsantostopografo
Fabuloso! Dicção perfeita - entende-se cada palavra da letra musical. Poucos se igualaram a esse 'monstro' da MPB
@alankardecson2493
Choro, copiosamente, de emoção, todas as vezes que ouço essa interpretação. Ney é único. O maior, o melhor intérprete da história da MPB
@mbcariello
Que ninguém mais grave esta canção tão linda; por absolutamente desnecessário. Deixem-na quieta, assim, na voz de Ney Matogrosso, esse enorme artista brasileiro, ímpar nas suas interpretações!
@Mariazelia828
Super concordo com vc. Que ninguém interfira na viagem que essa gravação nos propõe.
@sergiocustodio3200
Algumas canções se tornaram ímpares; na voz de seus intérpretes/cantores, temos milhares de exemplos: Milton (Travessia), Nana (Resposta ao Tempo), Emílio Santiago (Verdade Chinesa), Caetano (Sampa), Elis Regina (upa neguinho; entre tantas outras) Gil (abacateiro) ; a lista é infinita, não posso deixar de mencionar Cazuza, Renato Russo, Almir Sater, Luiz Gonzaga/Gonzagunha...etc...etc...etc! ESTÃO DE ACORDO?
@Mariazelia828
@@sergiocustodio3200 , plenamente!
Chico Buarque, Contrução.
@sergiocustodio3200
@@Mariazelia828 ...o Ney Matogrosso, fazendo um trabalho extra terrestre; na interpretação de Construção, Ivan Lins, em muitas situações, más especificamente em Bandeira do Divino, e muitos certamente NÃO conhecem HINO À BANDEIRA NACIONAL... é de chorar 😍