from Brazil's Northeast, highlighting the less regarded feminine
influences of the outback's popular culture.
Born in Sao Paulo, the composer and musician has gathered a vast array
of rhythmical, poetical structures, canons and voice dialogues from
the grassroot music of the Northeast. Her songs are inspired by
the Maracatu Rural, the Coco and the Cavalo Marinho, amongst others,
and reveal the richness of these traditions, exposing an authentic
repertoire made up of her own compositions, young and old composers
as well as songs that are now in the public domain.
Listening to Renata Rosa is a groundbreaking trip into the timeless
world of the Caboclos, the Native Indians and the Africans of Brazil.
Renata Rosa's performance intertwines the best of the Northeast music
with its dances. The power within the chant is a physical consequence
of the dance, and in some songs the stage ground actually becomes
a percussion instrument, as it is stomped by the artists. Renata plays
the "rabeca" (the traditional brazilian fiddle), alongside her
musicians, Seu Luis Paixao, a native master of this traditional fiddle,
a "viola" (a rare kind of acoustic guitar), 2 percussionists and
a bass guitar.
Renata has just released an outstanding debut album "Zunido da Mata",
produced by Mestre Ambrosio's musicians. After touring and teaching
her art in Italy, USA and Canada, Renata Rosa and band is now ready
to hit international roads, opening new horizons for Brazilian music.
Ms Rosa will teach the Samba de Coco, which is a variation of the Coco.
The origin of Coco lays on the meeting between the native Brazilian
culture and the central African culture, which came with the slaves to
the Northeast of Brazil and involves the circular dance that sights
the ground. The dance has a variety of steps, which the function is
the percussion and are connect to the poetry. Traditionally, the dance
is connected to the construction of houses made by clay and straw. The
owner of the house calls the people of the community to do the Coco
inside the house on the clay floor. While everyone is dancing, singing
and making percussion sounds with their feet, the clay is flattened to
ground level. Renata's workshop will work with the circular dance and
the relationship between the dance, the feet percussion and the poetic
aspects of the music.
Renata Rosa, musician, singer, poet and researcher, was born in
Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1973. She is part of the "Maracatu de Baque
Solto Estrela de Ouro de Aliança", as Dama do Cacho, one of the
responsibles for the evolution of the maracatu - a traditional carnival
parade from the State of Pernambuco (NE), in which dance, improvised
poetry and music are included. "Maracatu" aggregates elements from
black, indigenous and iberic culture. She also conducts the Boi
da Gurita Seca group, in which she improvises poetry following
the musical and poetic tradition of the "maracatu rural".
She develops research on cultural manifestations of the people from
northeast. Some of her studies are focused on "coco", work chants
and traditional catholic chants such as "Benditos" - which are
performed during the traditional catholic parades - and "excelencia
chants" - chants to prepare the deads' soul to the encounter with
God, usually performed during death-watches.
Renata Rosa has been providing workshops in many Festivals and
Centers: Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) , Cathedral St John
the Divine (NY), Festival de Inverno de Garanhuns, (PE), Teatro
Arraial (Recife) , Studio Casa de Pedra (Rio de Janeiro),etc.
Leva eu saudade
Renata Rosa Lyrics
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A cama pra meu amor.
Passou um vento na roseira
A cama se encheu de flor,
Leva eu saudade,
Se me leva eu vou.
In Renata Rosa's song "Leva eu, saudade," the singer describes a beautiful moment where they were preparing their bed for their lover. They were in the midst of decorating the room with roses when a gust of wind swept through and filled the bed with flowers. The singer then expresses their desire to be taken away by the feeling of saudade, a Portuguese word that speaks to a deep emotion of longing and nostalgia. The singer longs for this feeling to take them away, presumably to a place where they can be reunited with their lover or find solace in their absence.
The song's opening line sets a romantic tone and a sense of expectation for something beautiful to come. The presence of the rose, a symbol of love and the fragility of life, emphasizes the ephemeral nature of love and the desire to hold onto its beauty. The wind that fills the bed with flowers is symbolic of the power of nature to bring about moments of unexpected beauty and serendipity. The singer's longing for saudade, though painful, is also a testament to the strength of their feelings and the depth of love that they feel.
"Leva eu, saudade" is a beautifully melancholy song that embodies the bittersweetness of love and loss. It speaks to the universal human experience of longing for connection and highlights the powerful emotions that music can evoke.
Line by Line Meaning
Eu tava forrando a cama,
I was making the bed,
A cama pra meu amor.
The bed for my love.
Passou um vento na roseira
A gust of wind blew by the rosebush
A cama se encheu de flor,
The bed was filled with flowers,
Leva eu saudade,
Take me, longing,
Se me leva eu vou.
if you take me, I'll go.
Writer(s): Renata Rosa
Contributed by Jake S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.