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").

Samba Do Amor
Teresa Cristina Lyrics

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Quanto me andei
Talvez para encontrar
Pedaços de mim pelo mundo
Que dura ilusão
Só me desencontrei
Sem me achar aí eu voltei
Voltar quase sempre é partir
Para um outro lugar

O meu olhar se turvou e a vida foi crescendo
E se tornando maior todo o seu desencanto
Ah, todos os meus gestos de amor
Foram tragados no mar
Ou, talvez, se perderam num tempo qualquer
Mas há sempre um amanhecer

E um novo dia chegou
E eu vim me buscar quem sabe em você

Overall Meaning

These lyrics from Teresa Cristina's song "Samba Do Amor" convey a sense of reflection and searching. The singer has traveled in search of themselves and shattered illusions, but ultimately returned without finding what they were looking for. The act of returning is described as both a departure and a new beginning, hinting at the possibility of finding what was lost in a different place or person.

The second half of the lyrics express a sense of loss and disappointment, with the singer acknowledging that their past gestures of love have been swallowed up by the sea or lost in time. However, there is still hope for a new dawn and a chance to rediscover themselves, possibly in the form of another person.

Overall, these lyrics convey a sense of longing and searching for something that has been lost or never truly found, while also expressing hope for a new beginning.

Line by Line Meaning

Quanto me andei
I've walked a lot

Talvez para encontrar
Maybe to find

Pedaços de mim pelo mundo
Pieces of myself around the world

Que dura ilusão
What a harsh illusion

Só me desencontrei
I only got lost

Sem me achar aí eu voltei
Without finding myself, I returned

Voltar quase sempre é partir
To return is almost always to leave

Para um outro lugar
To another place

O meu olhar se turvou e a vida foi crescendo
My vision blurred and life grew

E se tornando maior todo o seu desencanto
And all its disillusionment became bigger

Ah, todos os meus gestos de amor
Ah, all my gestures of love

Foram tragados no mar
Were swallowed by the sea

Ou, talvez, se perderam num tempo qualquer
Or perhaps they got lost in some time

Mas há sempre um amanhecer
But there's always a sunrise

E um novo dia chegou
And a new day has come

E eu vim me buscar quem sabe em você
And maybe I came to find myself in you

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Letra de Hermínio Bello de Carvalho:

Quanto me andei
Talvez pra encontrar
Pedaços de mim pelo mundo
Que dura ilusão
Só me desencontrei
Sem me achar
Aí eu voltei
Voltar quase sempre é partir
Para um outro lugar

O meu olhar se turvou
E a vida foi crescendo
E se tornando maior
Todo o seu desencanto
Ah, todos os meus gestos de amor
Foram tragados no mar
Ou talvez se perderam
Num tempo qualquer
Mas há sempre um amanhecer
E o novo dia chegou
E eu vim me buscar
Quem sabe em você