Pink Martini has twelve instrumentalists (and sometimes travels with string sections), and performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia and New Zealand and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. Since then, the band has gone on to play with over 30 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year’s Eve 2003, 2004 & 2008; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in NYC; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; and the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia.
Lauderdale met China Forbes, Pink Martini’s lead vocalist, at Harvard. He was studying history and literature while she was studying English literature and painting. Late at night, they would break into the lower common room in their college dormitory and sing arias by Puccini and Verdi – and the occasional campy Barbra Streisand cover –thus sealing their creative collaboration. Three years after graduating, Lauderdale called Forbes who was living in New York City, where she’d been writing songs and playing guitar in her own folk-rock project, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together for the band. Their first song “Sympathique”– with the chorus “Je ne veux pas travailler” (”I don’t want to work”) – became an overnight sensation in France, and was even nominated for “Song of the Year” at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards. Forbes, though fluent only in English, sings in 15 different languages.
Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist” in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards in 2000.
In October 2004, the group released its second album, Hang on Little Tomato.
In May 2007, it released its third album, Hey Eugene!.
A fourth studio album, Splendor in the Grass, followed on October 27, 2009.
Sympathique, Hang on Little Tomato and Hey Eugene! have all gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey; collectively, Pink Martini's records have sold more than two million copies worldwide.
On New Year's Eve 2005, Pink Martini performed live at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. This performance was aired live on National Public Radio's Toast of the Nation, and in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting was recorded for a live DVD and later broadcast on US public broadcasting and French television.[citation needed] The DVD has been rereleased to retail as Discover the World: Live in Concert, featuring not only the full concert, but several vignettes and a short documentary of the band's history.
The band has collaborated and performed with Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Henri Salvador, Jane Powell, Chavela Vargas, Georges Moustaki, Michael Feinstein, DJ Dimitri from Paris, clarinetist and conductor Norman Leyden, Hiroshi Wada, DJ Johnny Dynell and several drag queens from New York City, among others. On June 1, 2007, the band appeared on the long-running BBC Two Later with Jools Holland TV music program. On June 14, 2007, Pink Martini performed on Late Show with David Letterman, performing "Hey Eugene".
Pink Martini played Walt Disney Concert Hall on New Year's Eve for the first two years it was open (2003/4 and 2004/5). They returned to play NYE there again in 2008/9.
In May 2009, the band recorded three concerts with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Carlos Kalmar for the band’s fifth album … a symphonic record which is slated for a 2011 release.
Pink Martini songs appear in such films as In the Cut, Nurse Betty, Josie and the Pussycats, Tortilla Soup, Shanghai Kiss, Mary and Max, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith and have been used on television shows such as Dead Like Me, The Sopranos and The West Wing, among others.[citation needed] Their song "Una notte a Napoli" is an integral part of the Italian movie Mine Vaganti (2010), by the Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek. The song "No Hay Problema" is included as background/setup music for Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and was also used as the background/setup music for an early build of Windows Longhorn, now known as Windows Vista.[citation needed]
In February 2011, the group's lead singer, China Forbes, recorded a video greeting to the European Space Agency's Italian astronaut, Paolo Nespoli, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri, on board the International Space Station. The astronauts were preparing to oversee the docking of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo vessel, Johannes Kepler, which took place at 17:08 CET on 24 February. The greeting was set to the sound track of Dosvedanya Mio Bombino - one of Pink Martini's signature songs - and was mixed with footage of the actual docking.
In November 2011, they played at the Balboa Theater with the Bonita Vista High School band, Club Blue.
Tempo Perdido
Pink Martini Lyrics
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Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Por ti fico procurando
A esquecer sua maldade
Conviver no abandono
Pra fazer sua vontade
Apesar de ser sincera
Tu é quem me fez chorar
Não faz mal, segue o destino
Que o mundo vai te ensinar
Mas mesmo assim
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Por ti fico procurando
A esquecer sua maldade
Conviver no abandono
Pra fazer sua vontade
Apesar de ser sincera
Tu é quem me fez chorar
Não faz mal, segue o destino
Que o mundo vai te ensinar
Mas mesmo assim
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
In Pink Martini's song "Tempo Perdido," the lyrics express the sentiment of a brokenhearted woman who has suffered and lost much time due to a love that has gone sour. The opening verse, "Even though I'm shedding tears, I can't forgive you. Even though I suffered, my whole time wasted. Never again do I want to love you," showcases the intense emotions and heartbreak she feels towards the person who hurt her. She emphasizes that despite the tears and suffering, she can never forgive the person who caused her pain, ultimately ending the relationship with no hope of recovery.
The following verses convey the woman's struggle to move forward while still feeling the pain of her past relationship. She states that she searches to forget the cruelty of her former partner, and that she's willing to live in solitude to fulfill their needs. Although she is honest, her lover has caused her constant tears and distress. The last line, "but even so," implies that the woman is trying to find the strength to forgive despite all the pain she's been through.
Line by Line Meaning
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Despite crying my eyes out
Eu não te posso perdoar
I cannot forgive you
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Even though I suffered
Todo o meu tempo perdido
All the time I wasted
Nunca mais te quero amar
I never want to love you again
Por ti fico procurando
I keep searching for you
A esquecer sua maldade
To forget your wickedness
Conviver no abandono
Living in abandonment
Pra fazer sua vontade
To do your will
Apesar de ser sincera
Despite being honest
Tu é quem me fez chorar
You are the one who made me cry
Não faz mal, segue o destino
It's okay, follow your destiny
Que o mundo vai te ensinar
That the world will teach you
Mas mesmo assim
But still
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Despite crying my eyes out
Eu não te posso perdoar
I cannot forgive you
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Even though I suffered
Todo o meu tempo perdido
All the time I wasted
Nunca mais te quero amar
I never want to love you again
Por ti fico procurando
I keep searching for you
A esquecer sua maldade
To forget your wickedness
Conviver no abandono
Living in abandonment
Pra fazer sua vontade
To do your will
Apesar de ser sincera
Despite being honest
Tu é quem me fez chorar
You are the one who made me cry
Não faz mal, segue o destino
It's okay, follow your destiny
Que o mundo vai te ensinar
That the world will teach you
Mas mesmo assim
But still
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Despite crying my eyes out
Eu não te posso perdoar
I cannot forgive you
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Even though I suffered
Todo o meu tempo perdido
All the time I wasted
Nunca mais te quero amar
I never want to love you again
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Ataulpho Alves
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
The Night Talker - Memorie d'orrore
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Por ti fico procurando
A esquecer sua maldade
Conviver no abandono
Pra fazer sua vontade
Apesar de ser sincera
Tu é quem me fez chorar
Não faz mal, segue o destino
Que o mundo vai te ensinar
Mas mesmo assim
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Por ti fico procurando
A esquecer sua maldade
Conviver no abandono
Pra fazer sua vontade
Apesar de ser sincera
Tu é quem me fez chorar
Não faz mal, segue o destino
Que o mundo vai te ensinar
Mas mesmo assim
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Ceramic Quill
Translation for the English people:
Even though you are crying,
I cannot forgive you.
Even though you suffered,
You wasted my time.
I never want to love you again.
Today I am searching to forget how evil you were
I lived in desertion doing your will
Even though you were sincere
You were the one who would make me cry
But never mind it, follow your destiny.
The world will teach you
But even then,
Even though you are crying,
I cannot forgive you.
The Night Talker - Memorie d'orrore
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Por ti fico procurando
A esquecer sua maldade
Conviver no abandono
Pra fazer sua vontade
Apesar de ser sincera
Tu é quem me fez chorar
Não faz mal, segue o destino
Que o mundo vai te ensinar
Mas mesmo assim
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Por ti fico procurando
A esquecer sua maldade
Conviver no abandono
Pra fazer sua vontade
Apesar de ser sincera
Tu é quem me fez chorar
Não faz mal, segue o destino
Que o mundo vai te ensinar
Mas mesmo assim
Mesmo derramando lágrimas
Eu não te posso perdoar
Mesmo que tenha sofrido
Todo o meu tempo perdido
Nunca mais te quero amar
Ceramic Quill
Translation for the English people:
Even though you are crying,
I cannot forgive you.
Even though you suffered,
You wasted my time.
I never want to love you again.
Today I am searching to forget how evil you were
I lived in desertion doing your will
Even though you were sincere
You were the one who would make me cry
But never mind it, follow your destiny.
The world will teach you
But even then,
Even though you are crying,
I cannot forgive you.
toto tata
Can’t help but cried..... took me back 10 yrs... Friday afternoon commuted by train from Chicago to where I live listened to this song, it calmed my mood nevertheless set my mood for party for upcoming w/e. Where has time gone? Too fast, unstoppable..... Love and be loved, y’all.
Yolanda Pindter
simplemente maravillosa esta orquesta!!!!! son únicos Bravo!!!!
Barbara Wiśniewska
Cudowny głos !!!
@marce.goodnews
Let's all Forgive please ♥️
My favourite song with the most unwise lyrics 🤣 Love her voice, the instrumental 😍
pawlo ake
Bom ritmo brasileiro.
Yvon Penker
Alegría, Pink Martini.
Freire Trompete
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AdrianoUriel
Sambinha com sotaque, lindo!