The band´s interesting name did not come about until journalist João Piment… Read Full Bio ↴The band´s interesting name did not come about until journalist João Pimentel, writing for Brazil´s top selling daily paper O Globo, made a reference in one of his articles to the group of musicians that played with Teresa Cristina every Saturday night at the bar Semente, placed in one of Rio´s most bohemian neighborhoods, Lapa. It was in 1998 that Bernardo, João, Pedrinho, Ricardo Cotrim (no longer a member of Semente) and other friends, got together for the first time. Back then, Teresa was selecting repertoire for a tribute show she intended to put together in honor of Brazilian music virtuoso Candeia, and handpicking the musicians. Bernardo, at the time a member of group Acorda Bamba, invited band mate Alexandre Bittencourt (who, in turn, invited other musician pals, including Pedrinho, João and Ricardo) to Teresa´s 30th birthday party. That was when the invitation was formalized and well accepted, prompting a routine of meetings between Teresa and the guys to rehearse Candeia´s repertoire, though, in the end, the show never made it to the stage. Still in that year, Teresa and the boys played together for the first time at a show celebrating the International Women´s Day at the Planetário da Gávea theatre. Their premiere on the pulsating night of Lapa, one of Rio de Janeiro´s musical cribs, took place right after this, when Teresa and the group were invited by a certain well known character "Seu Guaracy", of Portela Samba School, to launch the new night music program at local bar Semente, known as a health food place, up until then. It worked out so well that soon Teresa Cristina and Grupo Semente were being called the "rescuers of Lapa´s night life", that had been going down since the eighties. After becoming a hit band playing at Semente, Teresa and the guys went on to perform at other venues in Lapa, such as carioca da Gema and Centro Cultural Carioca, for an ever growing audience. Media recognition came with the release of the first album, a double tribute to Brazilian idol Paulinho da Viola´s 60th birthday, which won Teresa a couple of awards - "Prêmio Rival BR" and "Prêmio Tim"- as "Best New Artist", and a "Best Samba Album" nomination at the 2003 Latin Grammy´s. After that, many were the invitations that took Teresa and Semente all over Brasil and even to Japan, showing the world all the beauty of the good genuine Brazilian music. In 2004, Teresa, Bernardo, Pedrinho and João welcomed Mestre Trambique, coming to replace Ricardo Cotrim, who was leaving the band, and they went in the studio once again to record the band´s second album "A Vida Me Fez Assim" ("Life has Made Me This Way"), which featured Teresa´s premiere as a songwriter. They gathered an excess of overwhelming reviews, and sold-out theatres on which they performed. On that same year, the band hit the road with the "Projeto Pixininguinha" tour, performing at the main cities of the Northeast of Brazil. In 2005, they performed at the "Brazilian Year" Celebrations in Paris, while recording their fist live CD and DVD, suitably titled: "O Mundo é Meu Lugar" ("The World is My Place").

A Gente Esquece
Teresa Cristina Lyrics

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A gente esquece um samba
E faz um outro samba
A gente perde um grande amor
E acha um outro amor
Você morreu no meu peito
E no meu peito nasceu
Não um outro amor
Mas essa indiferença sem saudade

Sem tristeza e sem rancor
A gente tem uma esperança
E vai vivendo
A gente canta até na hora de sofrer
Já fiz um samba que perdi
Onde eu dizia, veja bem

Que não havia mais ninguém
Senão você

Overall Meaning

The song "A Gente Esquece" by Teresa Cristina e Grupo Semente talks about how people can forget about one thing and move on to another. The lyrics start by talking about forgetting about one samba and starting to create a new one. This can be seen as a metaphor for moving on from a past relationship or experience and creating something new.

The second verse talks about losing a great love and finding another love. This can be interpreted as a way of showing how people can move on from heartbreak and find love again even though it may not be the same love as before. The singer then talks about how someone died in her heart, but from that death, a new emotion was born- indifference without nostalgia, sadness or rancor.

The last verse talks about how people live on hope and continue to sing even in times of suffering. The singer reveals that she made a samba that she lost, where she had said that there was no one else but the person she loved. The song ends with the idea that people move on, but the memories of love and the past continue to exist.

Overall, this song is a beautiful interpretation of the human journey of losing and finding love, how we move on from the past and start anew, and how we continue living with hope and music in our hearts.

Line by Line Meaning

A gente esquece um samba
Sometimes we forget a particular samba tune

E faz um outro samba
And we end up creating a new one

A gente perde um grande amor
We might lose a great love sometime

E acha um outro amor
But eventually we might find another love

Você morreu no meu peito
You passed away while in my heart

E no meu peito nasceu
And inside, a feeling grew

Não um outro amor
Not a new love, though

Mas essa indiferença sem saudade
Instead, an emotionless, nostalgic feeling resides

Sem tristeza e sem rancor
Not filled with sadness or anger

A gente tem uma esperança
We hold onto hope

E vai vivendo
And we keep living