Geraldo Vandré

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Geraldo Vandré (born September 12, 1935 in João Pessoa , Paraíba , as Geraldo Pedrosa de Araújo Dias) is a Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer. The name Vandré, as it is called in Brazil, results from the abbreviation of the name of his father José Vandregisilo.

In an interview he once said that all of his songs are about love: "the love for a person, the love for my friends and the love for my people."

Life

The beginning and first successes

At the age of 14 he appeared on a radio program by Rádio Tabajara in João Pessoa. In Nazaré da Mata, where he attended high school ( Ginásio em internato ), he took part in some shows. In 1951 he and his family moved to Rio de Janeiro . In the same year he presented a program as a newcomer at César de Alencar, but it failed. Through his acquaintance with Ed Lincoln, who was playing with Luís Eça in the bar of the Hotel Plaza at the time, he was able to perform during their program breaks. In 1955, under the pseudonym Carlos Dias, he represented the song Menina by Carlos Lyra in a music competition organized by TV-Rio. Later, when he met the folklorist Valdemar Henrique, he had the opportunity to present himself in the program of Rádio Roquete Pinto, using the name Vandré for the first time.

At the Faculty of Law (Faculdade de Direito) of Rio de Janeiro, he joined the Centro Popular de Cultura and the earlier student movement União Nacional dos Estudantes, where he found his first "parceiro" (co-composer, literally: partner), Carlos Lyra, got to know personally who was more interested in the composition. It was both of them who wrote Quem quiser suchenrar o amor, recorded on April 24, 1961 as 78 rpm on RGE. This song was included in the episode "Couro de gato" of the film Cinco vezes favela, produced by the Centro Popular de Cultura. In 1962 he presented himself in the João Sebastião Bar in São Paulo , where he had since moved and where he lives again today, and initiated the collaboration with Luís Roberto, Baden Powell and Vera Brasil. In the same year he recorded the Samba em prelúdio by Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes with the singer Ana Lúcia , the first great success, and composed the Samba Aruanda with Carlos Lyra . In 1962 the pieces Canção nordestina and the Toada Fica mal com Deus followed. In December 1964 he recorded his first LP with Áudio Fidelity , which contained all previous recordings and Menino das laranjas (by Theo de Barros). In 1965 he performed Sonho de um carnaval ( Chico Buarque ) at the 1st Festival National da Música Popular Brasileira (FNMP) of the TV Excelsior in São Paulo. In addition, he submitted his composition Hora de lutar to this festival , which failed, but was released on an LP of the same name in the same year. During this period he created the songs for Roberto Santos's film A hora ea vez de Augusto Matraga.

The following year Som Maior released the LP Cinco anos de canção , which included the pieces Pequeno concerto que virou canção, Canção nordestina and Rosa flor (with Baden Powell). In 1966 he won the II. FNMP of TV Excelsior in São Paulo with the Marcha rancho Porta-estandarte (with Fernando Lona), performed by Tuca and Airto Moreira , and then embarked on a tour of northeast Brazil with the Trio Novo, consisting of from Theo de Barros (violão, a type of guitar), Airto Moreira (viola caipira, a rural, simple type of guitar, percussion) and Heraldo do Monte (violão) (when Hermeto Pascoal was later added, it became the Quarteto Novo). In the same year, his composition (with Theo de Barros) Disparada, interpreted by Jair Rodrigues , together with A Banda by Chico Buarque won at the II. FMPB of TV Record in São Paulo . He also got a second place at the I. FIC of TV-Rio in Rio de Janeiro with O cavaleiro, co-composed by Tuca, who also interpreted it.

In 1967 he was invited to record an entire program Disparada on TV Record in São Paulo, directed by Roberto Santos. Recordings for the III. However, FMPB (Festival da Música Popular Brasileira, with Hermeto Pascoal, among others) and another TV Globo music festival in Rio de Janeiro failed. But he landed further successes with Arueira and with Frevo João e Maria (co-composed by Hilton Accioly). During this period, at the invitation of the Dominicans in São Paulo , he composed A Paixão segundo Cristino, an allegory of the crucifixion of Christ in a northeastern context, and took part in the Canto Geral program , then Canto Permitido, of the São Paulo TV Bandeirantes. In 1968 he recorded the LP Canto geral for Odeon, which included Maria Rita and O plantador (co-composed by Hilton Accioly) as well as unqualified pieces from festivals. He also took part in the IV FMPB with Bonita (co-composed by Hilton Accioly), and this piece was performed twice: failed by Vandré together with his partner, but victorious in the interpretation of the Trio Maraia.

The highlight: Caminhando

In 1968 Pra nicht dizer que nicht falei das flores (Caminhando) took part in the III. FIC in São Paulo, performed powerfully by the Quarteto Livre, consisting of Naná Vasconcelos (tumbadora, a conga ), Franklin (flauta, a type of flute), Nelson Ângelo (violão) and Geraldo Azevedo (violão and viola), despite the audience's opinion that the Wanted to see the song in first place, only second place, which led to great resentment (which can be heard on the live recording of this piece, sung by Vandré himself and recorded in 1968 in Maracanãzinho, the smaller football stadium in Rio: to find on the LP Geraldo Vandré, st, RGE 1979). Nonetheless, the song was very successful because, in the form of a student protest anthem or even a revolutionary song, it hit the nerve of the time: It was consequently banned by the censors of the military dictatorship, which had been in power since 1964.

Exile and return

He fled into exile in Chile in 1968, where he composed the song Desacordonar , with which he was able to record a success, while Caminhando became a (forbidden) success in Brazil (it was not allowed to be performed publicly again until 1979, while the military regime was still in force ). After he had to leave Chile because he had appeared illegally on television there, he first went to Algeria, where he took part in the Pan-Africano festival, then traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he recorded various pieces for the television of Bavarian Radio. He moved on to Greece, Austria, Bulgaria and sang for the people in the interior. Sérgio Endrigo edited his music in Italy and in Paris he and a group of Brazilian artists published the Paixão segundo Cristino in the church of St. Germain-des-Prés at Easter 1970. He recorded the LP Das terras de Benvirá, released in Brazil by Philips in 1973, with the pieces Na terra como no céu and Canção primeira as well as De América . In the same year he appeared on Flávio Cavalcanti and TV Globo, but they were censored.

Years of silence followed as it became more and more a myth of resistance in Brazil. In 1982 (and again in 1985), in President Stroessner's Paraguay , he broke this 14-year-old silence to show himself on a show. In March 1995 he gave a concert at the Memorial da América Latina in São Paulo, realized by the TV Comando Regional (CONAR), to celebrate the Semana da Asa. Before that, however, at the end of the 1980s, a choir of cadets performed his piece Fabiana , which was understood as a tribute to the Forças Aéreas Brasileiras (FAB), the Brazilian Air Force, and which had earned him a lot of criticism. He vehemently denies any connection. Vandré lives very withdrawn today: "Vivo em outro mundo", "I live in another world."

Honors

In 1997 the Quinteto Violado brought out the CD Quinteto Violado canta Vandré with old successes and a previously unpublished piece, República brasileira . Also in 1997 Elba Ramalho , Geraldo Azevedo and Zé Ramalho Disparada and Canção da despedida recorded again on the CD GrandeFinder 2 .

Web links

The texts of these web links are also the sources; however, these are all Portuguese-language pages.

personal data
SURNAME Vandré, Geraldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vandre; Pedrosa de Araújo Dias, Geraldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH João Pessoa , Paraíba , Brazil